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Jessica Hayes latest Helping Teachers Teach winner

Jessica Hayes, science teacher at Elizabethton High School, is the latest Northeast Community Credit Union Helping Teachers Teach grant winner.
Hayes applied for the grant to help cover the cost for students competing in the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Science Bowl. While at the Science Bowl, students will participate in the competition, attend a dinner and meet scientists that work in and around the lab.
“Students have been practicing hard and are ready to flex their skills against as many as 22 other schools from across the state,” Hayes said. “Students also gain a considerable amount of knowledge through the additional resources that ORNL supplies; such as a keynote speaker, cadaver, robotics course, coding course, etc. These are just some of the wonderful things that they will experience on our trip.”
Northeast Community Credit Union awards $300 every month to a classroom to be utilized for classroom needs, classroom activities, and academic enrichment. Helping Teachers Teach is open to teachers within Carter, Johnson, Unicoi, Sullivan and Washington counties who are members of Northeast Community Credit Union. Area teachers may become members online or at any NCCU location and can download the grant application on the credit union’s website: www.BeMyCU.org.