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2020 Mini-Grant Winners

Educator Program Organization City

Alabama

Cindy Suggs The Kids Garden Club Marjorie Younce Snook Public Library Summerdale
Kathy Owings The Heart of Family Demopolis Public Library Demopolis

California

Sheryl Towne Community Bee Keeping Scott Valley Unified School District Fort Jones
Denise Matthews Urban Garden Experience Dixie Canyon Elementary School sherman Oaks

Colorado

Kate Cambell Rose Stein Makerspace Jefferson County Public Schools Lakewood

Florida

Jennifer Laham Bayside Institute for Teaching and Education Bayside High School Palm Bay
Amy O. Christopoulos Which came FIRST, the Chicken or the Egg? Chapman Partnership Early Childhood Center Homestead

Georgia

Francina Lee Community Helpers B.C. Haynie Elementary; Clayton County Public Schools Morrow

Illinois

Kerry Dolan Mentoring with Mirrors Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy Chicago
Tracey Nielsen with Randall Sweitzer Art of the Novel Grayslake North HS D127 Grayslake
Jess Alexander STEMonade Stand Morton Grove Public Library Morton Grove

Indiana

Joelle Wake Cursive for Kids Whiting Public Library Whiting

Kansas

Janet Ayers A Summer “Shell”abration at the Library Burnley Memorial Library Cottonwood Falls

Kentucky

Claire Wyatt Summer Kindergarten Camp Ockerman Elementary School Florence

Massachusetts

Susan Smith Fairytale Theater Beaman Memorial Public Library West Boylston

Mississippi

Rachel Williams “Where I’m From” Gautier Middle School Gautier

Montana

Cathy Brandvold My Family Tale Valier Public Library Valier

North Carolina

Marguerite Bishop Nashville Elementary School Garden for Exceptional Children Nashville Elementary School Nashville

North Dakota

Delores R. Clark STEAM Cart Grand Forks Public Library Grand Forks

New Jersey

Joy Alfano Science Reader Program Belleville High School Belleville
Olga Kuharets Pets on Parade West Orange Public Library West Orange
Carrie Hogan & Missy O’Keeffe Animal Shelter-in-Place: A Service-Learning Program to Connect Our Community While We’re Apart H.C. Johnson Elementary School Jackson

New York

Michelle Lynne Priola Youth Summer Art Program New Berlin Library New Berlin
Tammy Cummings “John Henry” Inspires: Illustration and Bookbinding for grades 10-11 and reading for grades 4-5 Oswego County Board of Cooperative Educational Services (also known as Center for Instruction, Technology and Innovation, or CiTi) Mexico
MEGAN M OBRIEN Ezra Jack Keats Wall of Social and Emotional Health PS 207 Bronx

Oregon

LisaKaren Donnelly Imagination Showtime Fir Grove Elementary School Beaverton

South Carolina

Angela Stone Spotlight on Young Authors Chastain Road Elementary Liberty
Elizabeth Halberstadt Learning about Gullah Culture in the Library through Stories, Gardening, & Quilting Stono Park Elementary School Charleston

South Dakota

Jeff Laughlin Native American Gardening Cultural Project Spearfish Academy at Canyon Hills Spearfish

Tennessee

Dawn Reed Animal Adaptations Book Making Carroll Oakland Elementary Lebanon

Texas

Katherine Martin Painting Musical Stories Lovett Elementary Houston

Virginia

Nicole Powers Whistle For Willie Pet Appreciation Month Johnny B. Deel Memorial Library Clintwood
Susan Gibson Keats in the Community Scott County Public Library Gate City
Suzanne Bishop “Others Inside: Honoring our Experience of Being an American” Teen Mural Project Alexandria Library Alexandria
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