The Greenbrier County Board of Education celebrated a local School Counselor of the Year winner, Math Field Day winners, a Greenbrier West High School decoration initiative, and more during the Tuesday, February 8, meeting.
First, the board celebrated a local awardee for a state award.
“We want to congratulate Erin Justice,” said Debbie McClintic, Greenbrier County School’s Secondary and Career and Technical Education director. “This is the first time we’ve ever had a School Counselor of the Year. Ms. Justice works, right now, at Rainelle and Crichton elementary.”
The Board and visitors gave Justice a round of applause before continuing with the agenda. The West Virginia School Counselor Association selects three winners, one at the elementary, middle, and high school level. One of the three honorees will advance to represent West Virginia at the National level.
Erin Justice and Superintendent Jeff Bryant shake hands. Photo Credit Greenbrier County Schools. |
The board also took a moment to celebrate the Greenbrier County Math Field Day winners.
“You represent Greenbrier County well,” board president Jeanie Wyatt told the students. “We have a lot of 10th graders in that group, which is wonderful. So, thank you all again, and good luck in the regionals.”
The 2021-22 High School Math Field Day Winners include:
9th Grade Winners
– Sophia Nguyen, GEHS, First Place
– Mollie Pack, GEHS, Second Place
– Jakob Tomlinson, GEHS, Third Place
– Gavin Erskine, GEHS, Fourth Place
– Meredith Smailes, Homeschooler, Fifth Place
– Nixon Brown, GEHS, Sixth Place
10 to 12 Grade Winners
– Kendra Culyer, GEHS, First Place
– Jonathan Nguyen. GEHS, Second Place
– Cameron Little, GEHS, Third Place
– Evan McClure, GEHS, Fourth Place
– Rylee Norman, GEHS, Fifth Place
– Ryan Meadows, GEHS, Sixth Place
– Micah Fisher, GEHS, Seventh place
– Peyton Barker, GEHS, Eighth Place
– Loren Hanna, GWHS, Ninth Place
– Ian Hamilton, 10th Place
Alternates from GEHS included Carmen Fogus, Emma Kesterson, and Abby Dilly, while alternates from GWHS included Tiffany Redden and Elizabeth Bishop. The top 10 winners in grades 10 to 12 advance to regional competition at WV Tech in Beckley on March 5, and the top three 9th grade winners advance to regional competition at Adventures on the Gorge on March 17.
The Math Field Day winners. Photo Credit Greenbrier County Schools. |
The Math Field Day winners. Photo Credit Greenbrier County Schools. |
In other business:
– Head Nurse Nancy Hanna and director of technology and testing Vicky Cline reported the county’s application for $3.1 million from the FCC’s Emergency Connectivity Fund is still under review.
– Braelee Brown, Brandon Alderson, and Bobbie Binkley, three student representatives from Greenbrier West High School to the board, gave a presentation on their campaign to bring more students back into school. They decorated the hallways, each wing looking different, hoping to create a fun atmosphere. Brown explained, “on our teachers’ personal day, they had come up with a plan to decorate our school hallways. They went out, used all their own money, did everything by themselves, and they decorated our hallways in ways that we thought, and they thought, would make people happier at school. With masks and with COVID, it’s hard to keep morale up in school sometimes. Every month from here until the end of the school year, we’re going to decorate our hallways, and it’s going to be friendly competition between the teachers. Whichever hallway wins all the teachers in the hallway, get to take the last period of the day off.”
Brandon Alderson, Bobbie Binkley, and Braelee Brown. Photo Credit Greenbrier County Schools. |
– Three speakers to the board questioned the need for masking in schools during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Another speaker thanked the board for keeping precautions in place, telling the story of her husband treating an infant on a ventilator as a result of the disease.
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