November 2002 (No competition, just a request)
GMS / A school-wide workshop presented by author, Sharon Draper
November 2003
Highland (Larry Neas) / Highland Homecoming - 70th Birthday
CFT (Lori Grabner & Pat Carpenter) / Heart-Saving First Aid
May 2004
CFT (Glennis Huffman) / Voice Recognition Software
GMS (Danna Brickell) / "One Book - One School"
May 2005
TV (Joyce Johnson) / $1,000 / International Fair
TV (Diane Stearns) / $600 / Listening Update
TV (Kerin Carter & Amy Hoese) / $650 / "Steps to Success"
May 2006
TV & HI (Nellie Blevins & Pat Barnett) / $2,000 / Cherokee Day
HH (Lisa Bennett) / $1,500 / Listening Lab for Early Literacy
May 2007
System-wide (Nellie Blevins & Pat Barnett) / $2,500 / Cherokee Day**
TV (Pat Donaldson) / $800 / Peer Tutoring
GMS (Bill Muhlhahn) / $1,700 / "Get Real"
**Now supported annually by GCS Education Foundation
May 2008
GMS (Amanda Gricunas & Amanda Rigell) / $4,000 / "Greene Scene"
GMS (Larry Blalock) / $840 / "My Word Coach"
May 2009
GHS (Jason Horne) / $1,000 / Virtual Field Trips
GMS (Cindy Monroe) / $2,400 / Digital Visual Presenters
GHS Jr. ROTC (Lt. Col. (Ret.) Kirchmeier / $1,600 / Flight Simulators
May 2010
(Note: 2010 was the first year we offered FOCUS Grants and we ended the school year with an excess of $1,846.00 in our FOCUS Grant Award budget, which we elected to apply to the American Education Week Grant pool. This enabled us to award a total of $6,846.00)
GHS (Jamie House) / $450* / "Flip For Flips" video cameras
GHS (Jamie House) / $1,000* / "Differentiated Instruction Mini-Grants"
GMS (Andrea Tolley) / $2,440 / "Dell Mini 10 Notebooks"
Eastview (Lorraine Amos) / $1,020 / "Differentiated Instruction Reading Library"
Eastview (Marsha Hybarger) / $936 / "Kindergarten Manipulatives"
GCS System-wide (Jason Horne) / $1,000 / "Virtual Field Trips"
*Funded using FOCUS Grant excess.
May 2011
Highland (Jamie Chapman) / $600 / Document Cameras
Eastview (Robbie Poteet) / $2,000 / Promethean Board
Hal Henard (Donna Robertson & Deanna Martin) / $636.90 / Classroom Literature Sets
Eastview (Meg Brooks, Andrea O'Dell, Kim Treadway) / $897 / Document Cameras
Eastview (Cathy Dickey, Katie Andrew, Robin Jones) / $897 / Document Cameras
May 2012
GMS (April Leonard) / $1,568.91 / Netbooks for Language Arts
Hal Henard (Elena Black, Kendra Collins, DeAnna Martin) / $319.40 / "Space Is Out Of This World"
GHS (Shannon Duer) / $51 / "World Everywhere"
Tusculum View (Keirn Carter, Amy Hoese, Diane Stearns) / $712 / "Great Non-Fiction Books"
Eastview (Gina Broyles, Christie Carter, Andy McCall) / $900 / Acer Laptops
Eastview (Marsha Hybarger) / $1,462.73 / "Common Core Needs"
May 2013
Highland (Jamie Chapman) / $1,405.68 / “CITRIX”
GHS (Gant Patterson) / $2,222.50 / “PASCO Lab Equipment”
GHS (Ashley Bible) / $539.00 / “eBooks for Nooks”
GMS (Laura Lenker) / $$1,000.00 / “Nook Navigation”
Eastview (Cathy Dickey, Marsha Hybarger) / “Promethean Boards”
May 2014
Highland (Jamie Chapman) / $260.00 / “Telling Our Story”
Highland (Judy Williams) / $819.20 / “Techno Tots”
GMS (Fortel, Leonard) / $1,250.40 / “Scope & Upfront”
Tusculum View (Kalyn Miller) / $1,059.47 / “Building Tomorrow’s Thinkers”
Eastview (Amos, Jacobs, & Justis) / $1,497.00 / “iPads”
Greene Technology Center (Donald Burchnell) / $1,000 / “Industrial Electricity”
May 2015
Tusculum View (Candace Wiggins) / $563.85 / “Polydron Sets”
GMS (Amanda Gricunas) / $535.00 / “Memory Mugs”
GMS (Andrea Tolley) / $1,105 / “Wired Tablet
Hal Henard (Elena Black) $393.62 / “STEM in Kindergarten”
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