Jessica Hayes latest HTT 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 of buzzer lockout system for the EHS Science Bowl team. The system will allow the team to practice under the same conditions they will experience at the actual event. When not being used by the team, science classes at EHS will use the buzzer system to study for exams. Any remaining funding will be used to purchase gas and supplies for the team’s trip to compete at the Oak Ridge National Laboratories Science Bowl.

“We compete against a lot of well to do schools at the competition,” Hayes said. “These funds will help us to prepare and even the playing field against these schools that seem to have unlimited funding. The Elizabethton community is very near and dear to my heart. I believe in our students. They can compete at high levels and I want them to have the same opportunities to compete at those high standards as other schools.”

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.