Ross Beatty Jr./Sr. High School teacher Kelly Hargrove is one of 30 area teachers to receive a grant from Honor Credit Union.

Kelly Hargrove

Honor awarded 30 Michigan teachers with $100 from among the 188 aaplicants from 35 districts that applied for the fifth annual Teacher Awards.

Teachers applied for the $100 grants with submissions that ranged from requests for additional books for classroom reading to culinary supplies for hands-on food and cultural lessons.

The awards are designed to aid teachers, who already spend their own money and time in the classroom.

Hargrove learned she had won the award in mid-November.

“I am very excited,” she said. “Any time we are able to get some money for our classroom is awesome.”

Hargrove said the money will be used to continue a “Fun Fair” that was started last year by the Cassopolis PTO.

“My kids studied probability and statistics, so what I did is I had them each make a carnival game,” Hargrove said. “We played the carnival game here and then the best ones got to go to Sam Adams and their kids played them. This grant is going to go toward the material needed for those carnival games.”

Other local winners included Ariyll Forester with Niles Community Schools and Jeff Robinson with Dowagiac Union High School.