THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Thursday, February 2, 1995 TAG: 9502020438
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B2 EDITION: NORTH CAROLINA
TYPE: Local Briefs
DATELINE: ELIZABETH CITY LENGTH: Short : 28 lines
Three Elizabeth City-Pasquotank schools have received nearly $2,000 in grants from the Bright Ideas program, funded by the Albemarle Electric Membership Corp. and the Carolina Electric Cooperatives.
H.L. Trigg Elementary received $1,000 for a project called ``Alpha Smart,'' developed by fourth-grade teacher Karen Palmer. The project, centered on a portable keyboard that can store students' entries, seeks to provide every fourth-grader at the school with an alternative writing tool.
The ``Computerized Stock Market,'' supervised by Northeastern High School teacher E. Michael Clemens, was awarded $452.55 for a piece of software that allows students to buy and track shares of stock in a fictional company.
A $456.75 grant went to Weeksville Elementary's ``Wonderful Wednesday'' enrichment program for kindergarten and first-grade students, supervised by teachers Sandra Carr, Paige McMillian, Ella Sutton, Mary Holley and Paula Keith. by CNB