Carrie Tucek        Hope Armstrong

• Carrie Tucek, high school chemistry and physics teacher at Wagner Community School (Wagner, SD) won a $5,000 grant for an Aquaponics System to help students learn about the interconnectedness of STEM fields and assist them in forming, testing, and revising scientific ideas to better understand the scientific method and scientific inquiry.
• Hope Armstrong, 6th grade general science teacher at Georgia Morse Middle School (Pierre, SD) won a $1,350 grant for incorporating certain novels (and hence, language arts) into her science classes.  The selected books are relevant to the pertinent science topics of study to help the students make connections and to promote STEM education.