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Nearly 30,000 students will gain hands-on experience in good stewardship practices during the school year, thanks to the $235,760 in PRIDE Environmental Education Grants awarded to 70 schools and nonprofit organizations in 38 counties of southern and eastern Kentucky.

The grant recipients are listed below.

“Our goal is to help educators create fun, memorable lessons that will lead students to take care of the environment,” said Tammie Wilson, vice president and chief operating officer for Eastern Kentucky PRIDE, the nonprofit organization that awarded the grants. “The grant applications showed that educators have solid project ideas, but they need resources to make their plans a reality, and that’s where the PRIDE grants make such a difference.”

“The recycling program at Edmonton Elementary School is a great example,” Wilson said. Last year, the school launched a community-wide recycling program. Fourth-grade students manage the recycling operation, and they practice research and writing skills by preparing public service announcements and persuasive letters to promote recycling. To continue the successful recycling program, the school needed more recycling receptacles. Those will be purchased this fall with a $3,250 PRIDE grant.

“PRIDE has awarded education grants since 1998, and we’re really seeing a return on that investment this year,” said Jennifer Johnson, PRIDE program director. “Most grant recipients are building on projects that were started with previous PRIDE grants. For example, many grants will be used to enhance existing outdoor classrooms.”

Since 1998, PRIDE has awarded 907 Environmental Education Grants. The grants were used to build 360 outdoor classrooms, 112 greenhouses, 60 nature trails, 49 wetlands/rain gardens and 38 school recycling programs. According to the grant applications, 535,485 students benefitted from the grants in the years they were awarded.

The PRIDE Environmental Education Grant program awards up to $3,250 annually to schools and nonprofit organizations. The funding supports projects that help young people understand the importance of a clean environment, personal responsibility and community pride. Grant recipients must match the grants with monetary or in-kind contributions worth 10 percent of the grant amount. Grant recipients may receive an additional $300 to operate service-oriented PRIDE Clubs.

Eastern Kentucky PRIDE encourages and assists communities to improve water quality, clean up solid waste problems and promote environmental education. PRIDE, which is funded by a grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, was founded in 1997 by Congressman Hal Rogers (KY-5) and Kentucky Environmental Protection Secretary James Bickford.

For more information, please call the PRIDE office, toll free, at 888.577.4339.

GRANT RECIPIENTS, BY COUNTY
(Note: Only the primary project is listed. Other activities may also be planned for the grant funds.)

Adair
- Lake Cumberland Community Action Agency/Head Start: $3,250 to construct an outdoor classroom shelter
- Colonel William Casey Elementary/Adair County High: $3,250 to buy educational materials and recycling containers
- Lindsey Wilson College: $3,250 to construct a rain garden

Bath
- Sheltowee Environmental Education Coalition: $2,500 to construct a wetland

Bell
- Bell County School District: $3,250 to train teachers in Project Wet curriculum, host environmental camp
- Frakes School Center: $3,250 to buy teaching resources and greenhouse supplies
- Yellow Creek School Center: $3,250 to enhance outdoor classroom
- Saint Julien Parish School: $3,250 to construct an outdoor classroom

Breathitt
- Breathitt Regional Juvenile Detention Center: $3,250 to construct a greenhouse
- Highland-Turner Elementary School: $3,250 to enhance a nature trail
- Mt. Carmel Elementary: $3,250 to enhance an outdoor classroom

Clay
- Manchester Elementary: $3,250 to construct greenhouse
- Clay County High: $3,250 to enhance a greenhouse

Floyd
- May Valley Elementary: $3,250 to enhance an outdoor classroom

Harlan
- Harlan County High: $3,250 to construct an outdoor classroom

Johnson
- Paintsville Elementary: $3,250 to buy educational materials
- Porter Elementary: $1,500 to enhance an outdoor shelter
- Paintsville Middle: $3,250 to built a wet meadow/butterfly garden

Knott
- Hindman Settlement School: $1,675 to enhance an outdoor classroom

Knox
- Flat Lick Elementary: $3,250 to enhance a greenhouse and outdoor classroom
- Jesse D. Lay Elementary: $3,250 to enhance an outdoor classroom
- West Knox Elementary: $3,250 to build a butterfly garden
- Knox Central High: $3,250 to enhance a wetland and outdoor classroom
- St. Camillus Academy: $3,250 to enhance an outdoor classroom

Laurel
- Cold Hill Elementary: $3,250 to enhance a science lab
- North Laurel Middle: $700 to buy teaching materials
- South Laurel High: $3,250 to enhance mentoring program and create an aquaculture center

Lee
- Beattyville Elementary School: $3,250 to enhance a greenhouse and outdoor classroom
- Southside Elementary: $3,250 to enhance an outdoor classroom
- Lee County Middle: $3,250 to enhance an outdoor classroom
- Middle Kentucky Community Action: $3,250 to expand an outdoor classroom

Leslie
- Stinnett Elementary: $3,250 to construct a butterfly garden
- W.B. Muncy Elementary: $3,250 to construct a butterfly garden
- Hayes Lewis Elementary: $3,250 to enhance an outdoor classroom
- Leslie County High: $3,250 to enhance an outdoor classroom
- Stinnett Area Community Center: $3,250 to construct a greenhouse
- City of Hyden: $3,250 to construct an outdoor classroom

Letcher
- Letcher County Central High: $3,250 to buy educational resources
- Eastern Kentucky University’s Division of Natural Areas: $3,250 to buy GPS units and water kits

McCreary
- McCreary County Extension Service: $2,575 to build bird houses and host environmental camp

Metcalfe
- Edmonton Elementary: $3,250 to buy recycling receptacles

Monroe
- Gamaliel Elementary: $3,250 to build a wetland habitat and tool shed

Owsley
- Owsley County Elementary: $3,250 to enhance an outdoor classroom
- Owsley County High: $3,250 to construct a greenhouse

Perry
- Leatherwood Elementary: $3,250 to buy environmental education resources
- Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative: $3,250 to sponsor water quality lesson at Challenger Learning Center

Pike
- Belfry Middle: $3,250 to construct an outdoor classroom shelter
- St. Francis of Assisi School: $3,250 to enhance an outdoor classroom

Pulaski
- Burnside Elementary: $3,250 to construct a recycling hub
- Nancy Elementary: $3,250 to repair a wetland
- Hopkins Elementary: $3,250 to enhance an outdoor classroom
- Northern Middle: $3,250 to buy educational resources
- Somerset High: $3,250 to buy educational resources
- Science Hill School: $3,250 to enhance a greenhouse
- Somerset Christian School: $3,250 to enhace an outdoor classroom
- Pulaski County / Somerset Day Treatment: $1,395 to construct a greenhouse
- Somerset Community College: $3,250 to enhance an outdoor classroom

Rockcastle
- Mt. Vernon Elementary: $3,250 to buy educational resources
- Roundstone Elementary: $3,250 to construct a greenhouse

Russell
- Russell County High: $3,250 to enhance an outdoor classroom
- Russell County Conservation: $1,000 to buy Earth Day materials

Taylor
- Campbellsville Child Development Center: $1,915 to enhance an outdoor classroom
- Campbellsville Middle: $3,250 to enhance an outdoor classroom

Wayne
- Walker Elementary: $3,250 to buy educational resources

Whitley
- Boston Elementary: $3,250 to enhance an outdoor classroom
- Whitley County High: $3,250 to construct an outdoor classroom
- Corbin Elementary: $3,250 to construct a greenhouse
- Corbin Primary: $3,250 to construct an outdoor shelter
- South Elementary School: $3,250 to enhance a greenhouse
- Corbin Middle School: $3,250 to buy teaching resources

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Posted: 20 Aug 2008

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