Education Notebook: Warner Robins teacher wins state award
Stephanie Dale, a Warner Robins High School business and computer science teacher, was named the Georgia Business Education Association Teacher of the Year during the Georgia Association for Career & Technical Education Summer Conference. The award is presented annually to recognize an outstanding career, technical and agricultural education teacher at the secondary school level.
Dale has taught at Warner Robins High since 2011 and serves as the FBLA adviser.
OPEN SPOTS IN HOUSTON COUNTY PRE-K
Three Houston County elementary schools have 14 openings for pre-K students. Lindsey has 11 openings, Morningside has two and Shirley Hills has one. The positions will be filled out of zone on a first-come, first-served basis. Any out-of-zone students will be required to provide their own transportation.
Parents who are interested should go to Central Registration with the appropriate paperwork. Pre-K students must have turned 4 years of age on or before Sept. 1. Only a parent or legal guardian may register a child.
Central Registration is located in the Bert Rumble Complex at 303 S. Davis Drive in Warner Robins. Hours of operation are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday and 8:00 a.m. to noon Wednesday. For more information, please call Ron Wilson, director of special programs, at 478-988-6330, extension 10330.
NO LIVE ALLIGATOR IN ACE POND
The Academy for Classical Education posted on its Facebook page last week that there was, in fact, no live alligator in the retention pond in front of the school.
An alligator decoy had been placed in the pond to keep away geese, but it became trapped in an overflow drain and re-surfaced recently.
BOTTLED WATER BAN SAVES 30,000 BOTTLES
Mount de Sales Academy, recognized in the Southeast by the Ban the Bottle organization, saved 30,000 plastic bottles of water in the first year of its ban on bottled water.
The Ban the Bottle movement at the school was started by members of the environmental club in August 2014. Bottled water was removed from all vending machines on campus. Reusable bottles were made available to students, faculty and staff as a result and continue to be popular.
The 30,000 bottles saved equals about 3,960 gallons of drinking water. Purchased bottled water in the same quantity (or 16.9 ounces per bottle) would range from $30,000 to $45,000 in cost.
Comparatively, using the 2015 Macon Water Authority rates, 3,960 gallons of tap water would cost a family less than $20.
Five water refilling stations with digital counters were installed during the last school year on the downtown campus. In the spring, the Ban the Bottle students partnered with MWA for the Running Water 5K and raised enough funds for two additional refilling stations installed at the field house located at Cavalier Fields, the academy’s west Macon athletic complex.
AIR SHOW COMING TO MIDDLE GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY
The first Heart of Georgia Air Show, part of Middle Georgia State University’s 2015 homecoming celebration, takes to the skies 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Sept. 12, on the Eastman Campus -- east of Eastman on Ga. 46, adjacent to the Heart of Georgia Regional Airport.
The show is free and open to the public.
Scheduled to perform are Gary Ward, Greg Connell, Larry King and the Silver Wings Paratroopers.
A Kids Zone and aviation-related displays and demonstrations are also part of the air show.
Telegraph writers David Schick and Jeremy Timmerman contributed to this report.
This story was originally published August 23, 2015 at 9:43 PM with the headline "Education Notebook: Warner Robins teacher wins state award ."