DeGeneres to lead reality design program

Popular talk-show host and comedian Ellen DeGeneres, who is known for her passion for architecture and design, will produce a six-episode design competition for HGTV.

“Ellen’s Design Challenge,â€� which is scheduled to premiere in 2015, will feature “six competitors as they tackle ingenious challenges to sketch, design and build extraordinary furniture in just 24 hours.â€�

“I’m so excited about this show because I love finding really special pieces of furniture,â€� says DeGeneres in a statement released by HGTV. “One time, I found a beautiful, one-of-a-kind armoire that spoke to me in a way I’d never experienced. It turned out there was a drifter living inside of it, but that’s a story for another time.â€�

Like similar reality programming, such as “Project Runway,� would-be designers will attempt to create furnishings with the help of a master carpenter as they race against the clock and face various design challenges.

Lynne A. Davis, vice president of national broadcast media and talent relations for HGTV and DIY Network, said in an email that DeGeneres would be involved in the series, with details of her participation announced “at an upcoming date.�

The winning designer will get a cash prize.

App makes finding home info a snap

Homesnap works as easily for inexperienced buyers as it does for those further along in the buying process. Users take a photo of a home with their smartphone, and the app instantly generates a variety of data, including the most recent sale price, number of bedrooms and bathrooms, a tax assessment and school boundaries. The data available vary according to how recently the home sold or whether it’s listed for sale.

“You can use it for something as casual as snapping a photo of a friend’s house to see what he paid for his new home, or more seriously when you’re looking for a home,â€� says Guy Wolcott, chief executive of Homesnap. “You can use it collaboratively and send the photo and data with your mobile device to your brother, your wife or your real-estate agent.â€�

Wolcott says real-estate agents are also using the app to interact with their buyers or to get information on a property. Buyers can see the same information as agents, such as photos, how long a property has been on the market and school information, including ratings.

Matthew Rathbun, a Realtor and executive vice president with Coldwell Banker Elite in Fredericksburg, Va., uses Homesnap to find out the history of homes.

Garden Mart at Old Economy Village

Old Economy Village will have its annual Garden Mart from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. May 17.

The event is in the 19th-century formal gardens at the historic village in Ambridge. Heirloom tomatoes and other plants from the site’s greenhouse will be available, along with items from nine other vendors.

Admission to the event and the gardens is free.

Details: 724-266-4500 or www.oldeconomyvillage.org

New sunflower is pollen-free

Shock o Lat is a new sunflower variety that produces large, chocolate-colored, pollen-free flowers.

The dark-brown flower has honey-gold petal tips and a gold halo around the central seed head.

The mature plant reaches 6 feet tall and spreads about 18 inches wide, with several flower stems.

A packet of 50 seeds is available for $3.95 from Park Seed.

Details: 800-845-3369 or www.parkseed.com

— Staff and wire reports

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Chelsea flower show‘s Main Avenue is usually home to flashy show gardens dominated by big names. But for 2014 this illustrious stretch of horticultural real estate is playing host to a lively bunch of newcomers. Here are the ones we’re most excited about.

Hugo Bugg: the RBC waterscape garden

Being the next big thing can be a burden, but Hugo Bugg is taking it in his stride. He won the RHS’s Young Designer of the Year award in 2010, and now, at 26, comes of age with his garden for the Royal Bank of Canada Blue Water Project. “All designers aspire to show here,” Bugg says.

His waterscape garden highlights global water issues: “It’s a beautiful garden with a strong message: [it] mimics nature’s way of slowing down water, encouraging infiltration into the ground and taking pressure off urban drainage systems.”

He adds: “Even within the brief time I’ve been a designer, styles and inspiration have evolved. There is a greater emphasis on using materials from sustainable sources. I’m excited about the prospects for pushing boundaries further.” But for now his eye is firmly on the prize. “My aim is to receive the highest accolade available. I’m up against big names, but I’m really competing against myself to ensure this garden is of the highest standard possible.”

Harry and David Rich: the night sky garden

Both in their 20s, Harry and David Rich created an artisan garden at Chelsea last year (at the time, younger brother David was studying landscape architecture at Leeds Metropolitan University) and have been bumped up to Show Garden status this year. “We want to make a very naturalistic space,” says Harry of their night sky garden for Vital Earth peat-free composts. “It is sympathetic to a landscape we know well and depicts its textures and materials.” The brothers grew up in the Brecon Beacons and will use dry stone walls to create “rooms”. Their garden’s central feature will be a grass star-gazing pit, there will be reflective pools and the planting will evoke the Milky Way. “We have three weeks to make it look like it’s always been there.”

Harry relishes the challenge: “We feel honoured.” And both are enjoying the sense of vitality this year. “It’s exciting to see new faces,” Harry says. “It’s great to be part of this new, younger generation.”

Matt Keightley: Hope on the horizon

“If I had time to stop and think about being on a stage with the country’s leading designers at the world’s most famous garden show, Chelsea would be daunting,” Matt Keightley says. “But I haven’t had the luxury.” He has been designing since he was 17, “when my folks wanted their suburban plot transformed and I took it on”.

Now 29, he is creating the Hope On The Horizon garden for the David Brownlow charitable foundation. “It represents the path of recovery by wounded, injured and sick military personnel.” The layout will be based on the military cross: “Granite blocks will represent the soldiers’ physical wellbeing and the planting their psychological wellbeing at various stages of rehabilitation. An avenue of hornbeams should draw the eye to a sculpture representing the hopeful horizon of the garden’s name.

“I’d be thrilled with any award,” Keightley says, “but I have my heart set on gold, best in show and people’s choice – aspiration is key!”But there are other rewards, too. “We will be rebuilding this garden in the grounds of a Help for Heroes recovery centre in Colchester, where it will be used by the residents. That’s the icing on the cake for me.”

Nicole Fischer and Daniel Auderset

First-timers Nicole Fischer (one of the few women to make it to Main Avenue) and Daniel Auderset came to garden design after other careers, she from her Munich casting agency, he from telecommunications and healthcare. Both ended up at Inchbald School of Garden Design, where they became friends. “It was Daniel who first dared to think aloud and to suggest we create a show garden together,” Fischer says. Auderset had been a keen gardener for some time: “I’ve visited [Chelsea] many times and seen some of the world’s best designers create incredible gardens. So it has been a long-held dream to create my own garden here, and now it’s happening.” Their style is modernist – clean lines, limited materials and colours – and their Extending Space Garden takes inspiration from the Swiss Pfyn forest; they hope to capture the essence of that landscape in a small, urban space.

“The region is one we have both visited and we both love pine trees,” Daniel says.

They also have more at stake than other newcomers: they were moved up to Main Avenue in autumn, so “were too late to get a main sponsor. We’re funding it almost entirely ourselves,” Fischer says. “It’s a risk, but one worth taking to showcase our work at the highest level.”

“You begin this road to Chelsea with great excitement about what you could achieve,” Daniel says. “As the project develops and you meet the different nurseries, suppliers and contractors it is quite humbling and the reality and enormity of the task dawns on you. Now our expectations and hopes are that we just don’t embarrass ourselves!”

Mattie Childs: the Brewin Dolphin garden

“My head and heart have always been in the garden,” Mattie Childs says, “but I never imagined I’d make my living from it. I spent 10 years suited and booted [he worked in advertising], but in 2005 I was injured in the London bombings, which made me rethink my future.”

A 2007 visit to Chelsea put garden design on his radar and he set about gaining a professional diploma from KLC School of Design. He cut his teeth on show gardens at RHS Hampton Court Palace flower show, where he won two gold medals in two years, and relishes the chance to step up. His tranquil garden for Brewin Dolphin will feature copper arches and greens and yellows suggestive of a spring morning. “I want to capture a sense of anticipation, and the idea that from the darkness of winter comes light and possibility.”

But he’s under no illusions: “I expect the Chelsea experience to be an intense, adrenaline-packed, exhausting rollercoaster. I’m expecting to work really hard, but I also know I’ll enjoy every minute. I have 22m by 10m of amazing plants and materials to play with. Heaven!”

Houston’s historical timeline is typically highlighted with the Allen brothers’ founding of the city in 1836, oil booms and busts, NASA and the rise of a glitzy skyline that sparkles over once-muddy streets.

A new exhibit will take a different path to connect past and present with a look at private and public gardens.

“Gardens always reflect the time,” says architect Kathleen English, whose idea sparked “Garden Architecture: Design and Placemaking in the Bayou City,” at Architecture Center Houston. The exhibit, which opens with a reception 5:30-7 p.m. Thursday, will include images and stories of historical gardens, a juried presentation of recent public and private garden design and a McDugald Steele-designed vignette.

“The purpose of the exhibit is to celebrate gardens in and of themselves, not just as enhancements to buildings, but to make place,” she says.

An obvious milestone is the 14-acre formal and informal woodlands at Bayou Bend, the Latin Colonial home of the late philanthropist and garden visionary Ima Hogg. The now-public Southern garden showcases native and adapted plants such as azaleas, camellias and crape myrtles, as well as elegant design, which exemplifies the country house movement popular in late-19th and early-20th-century America. Take away the house at Bayou Bend, and the garden stands as a beautiful example of place-making, English says.

“Bayou Bend is Houston’s defining landscape. Yet Houston has much deeper history of gardens, much more compelling than people may realize. I’m excited the exhibit will bring breadth, visually, and look at how things have changed.”

Yes, Houstonians are still swatting mosquitoes and battling weather extremes. But gardens have come a long way since early travelers first admired the magnolias, oaks, sycamores and other native flora along Buffalo Bayou and the wildflower-bejeweled grasslands of the coastal prairies.

To grasp the first 100 years of that story, exhibit committee members Barry Moore, Jim Patterson, Lynn Herbert and Robyn Franklin plumbed multiple sources, including the Houston Metropolitan Research Center.

Growing food to put on the table was the primary focus after the Battle of San Jacinto in 1836, says Moore, an architect.

While home-grown vegetables and fruits were still a necessity in 1845, ornamentals began to appear in the new town’s gardens. Paperwhites bloomed along the front picket fence at the Thomas William House Sr. residence at Smith and Capitol. By the time Central Park designer Frederick Law Olmsted visited in 1854, oranges, peaches, figs, bananas, oleanders and lantana were among the non-natives growing in local gardens.

As in other parts of the country, ornamental gardening ramped up during the plant-crazed Victorian era, and people of means decorated with trees, shrubs and showy blooms. New city utilities were the end of privies and woodpiles, which allowed more space for geometrically shaped beds of colorful blooms and foliage. By 1890, Houston’s premiere mansions and gardens lined Main Street between Capitol and Calhoun, Moore notes.

English immigrant Alfred J. Whitaker and other early nurserymen helped supply enthusiastic gardeners’ demands. Saburo Arai’s Japanese nursery stocked native plants and imports such as azaleas, camellias and waxleaf ligustrum, a handsome evergreen maligned today.

None were more influential than nurseryman Edward Teas, who landscaped the Rice Institute in 1911 and planted the magnificent live oaks that canopy Main Street today.

While researching the exhibit, Moore discovered three major ideas influencing home garden design at the turn of the century: house and garden integrated for living, a particular style for both and the suggestion of country living. A prime example: Inglenook, Henry Kirby’s place at Smith and Gray, and Houston’s first professionally designed, fashionably Italian-influenced private garden.

While Houston grew, and private gardens became more diverse, public green spaces came on the scene with Whitaker’s 1871 vow to create a rural cemetery park. Glenwood Cemetery became Houston’s first professionally designed public space – a scenic, wooded site meant not only for paying respects but also for picnicking and enjoying nature.

By 1900, Houstonians were using the bandstand, pavilion and arbor, and playground in Sam Houston Park, the city’s first public park. The downtown space remains a popular site for festivals and concerts.

By 1914, Houston had its beloved Hermann Park. This year’s 100th-anniversary celebration includes the opening of McGovern Centennial Gardens, 15 acres of diverse landscapes.

“The gardens have elements that link directly to history, such as the formal allée, but it is distinctly contemporary,” says Doug Hoerr of Hoerr Schaudt Landscape Architects, the firm that designed the new garden. White Oak Studio collaborated on the project.

“Public parks performed such a different function 100 years ago from what they do today, partly because the concept of gardening has changed so much. Then, it was mostly the wealthy who could afford gardens, and the public park was where people went to see exuberant flowering displays, enjoy social time walking the promenade and get away from the density of the city.

“The design of the Centennial Gardens was driven by that fact – it is designed to be a place where people can see new ideas, learn about how to use plants and adapt that knowledge to their own gardens.”

As the city’s density increases, and private spaces are squeezed into smaller plots, public green areas are on the rise again.

Buffalo Bayou Park, a 2.3-mile stretch of green belt between Shepherd and Sabine, is being transformed into a gem, not only with more amenities for users, but also with an emphasis on restoring and preserving landscapes that were altered during the years.

Houston Arboretum and Nature Center, in the southwest corner of Memorial Park, anticipates a new master-planned look after the 2011 drought.

Today, Houston is bursting with garden clubs, plant societies and nurseries that share the tools and know-how to again grow food at home, plant wildlife habitats and try the latest cultivars.Imaginative individual gardens thrive, new place-makers in a sprawling city landscape.

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LOGAN SQUARE — A Logan Square resident’s posters promoting a greener Chicago will be displayed around the city this summer.

Alex Gilbert’s poster design was among those chosen for the City of Chicago’s City in a Garden design competition, which called on local residents to use Chicago’s motto — “Urbs in horto” (city in a garden) — to create a “powerful, attention-grabbing, memorable poster, incorporating what it means for Chicago to be a sustainable city.”

Gilbert, 25, channeled the style of renowned Chicago designer John Massey in his prize-winning submission, he said. That work will be displayed around the city in June.

His winning design is “very minimal and focused more on color,” Gilbert said. “The plane of green intersecting Chicago’s colors is reminiscent of the city intersecting with sustainability and the environment.”

He tried to keep the symbolism clean and simple, he added — the design is even further simplified by an impactful white space, reminiscent of Chicago architecture and its iconic skyline.

“I think every designer will tell you they’ve been drawing since they were young, but my real start came from Harrington College [of Design],” Gilbert said. “I always wanted to pursue the arts — designing was a practicality more than anything else but it ended up turning into a strong passion of mine.”

His work with nonprofits and community arts organizations like Spudnik Press and the Chicago Design Museum helped hone his skills in recent years, he added.

“The idea of sustainability falls under a larger umbrella of doing something that is meaningful and impactful,” he said. “Something I’m really passionate about is working for causes that are noble. It’s such an important topic in this current climate, to have that sustainable lifestyle — coexisting in a way that’s not a detriment to our environment.”

Gilbert described winning among such talented competition as a “humbling experience” and motivation for his work moving forward. His work will be displayed on city bus shelters and he’ll receive $500 cash.

“Something that I’m always interested in is being able to share these interests with other people and to combine my interest with different fields,” Gilbert said of his plans for the future. “I guess the options are endless.”

SINGAPORE: Thirty-one projects, mostly residential buildings, are awarded the Universal Design Mark this year – up from 26 in 2013.

The Universal Design Mark is a voluntary certification that recognises developers and architects who have gone the extra mile in designing for people of all ages and abilities including the young, the old and persons with disabilities.

The certification is awarded by the Building and Construction Authority (BCA).

This year, the highest honour went to Gardens by the Bay and The Interlace condominium, which received the Platinum ratings.

It looks like an ordinary table with seats. 

But after shifting the seats, the table is transformed into a wheelchair-friendly version. 

It is one of the universal design features at The Interlace condominium. 

Some 10 per cent of the units have been equipped with “ageing-in-place” provisions. 

For instance, the entrance to a bathroom in these units is not separated by a step. It is levelled and a metal drain is used keep water out. 

The developers, CapitaLand, say they believe the condominium is one of the first such private residential developments in Singapore that offers some units designed to facilitate ageing-in-place.

CapitaLand Singapore’s vice-president for design management (residential), Eng Tiang Wah, said: “There is a big portion of people who are actually getting older, especially in Singapore. 

“(Families) only have only one child or two children. So it is only natural that we start looking at these (ageing-in-place facilities).

“And people’s lives are getting longer. They are beginning to live up to 80, 90 years old.

“We are trying to build homes that last as well, so they can stay and age in place.” 

CapitaLand Singapore says some of these elderly-friendly features will be incorporated in its upcoming projects such as the D’Leedon condominium, which is expected to be completed later this year.

Other additions will include panic buttons and space provisions for grab bars.

Another project awarded the BCA Platinum Mark is the Gardens by the Bay. 

Opened in 2012, the attraction occupies 101 hectares.

But not a single block of steps can be found on its walkways. 

The walkways at the Flower Dome are sloped so gently – at an angle of 2.3 degrees – that its architects say visitors – young and old – do not need to hold onto hand rails as they tour the attraction.

In comparison, ramps at the entrances of shopping centres and MRT stations are twice as steep.

Before the Flower Dome was opened to the public, a user trial was conducted to engage visitors, including persons with disabilities, to solicit feedback on the features.

To serve users of all ages, the attraction currently has a 1-hectare children’s garden.

And there are plans to have an area dedicated to seniors. 

If successful, it will be the first garden in the world to be dedicated to seniors. 

The management says the garden is still in the conceptualisation stage but the public can expect it to incorporate features for “recreation and therapy” and be a “community gathering space for the elderly”. 

Gardens by the Bay says it has welcomed over 9 million visitors since opening, with senior citizens making up about 10% of their visitorship. 

BCA’s director for building plan management group, Chin Chi Leong, said: “UD (Universal Design) is increasingly becoming an important cornerstone of design, because of the changing demographics in Singapore. 

“We are an aging society. We are (also) trying to build an inclusive society and to do that, you really need to build an inclusive built environment, which means our spaces and facilities will cater to people of all abilities, 
whether they are on a wheelchair, the elderly, the young, mothers with children or pregnant women, for instance. 

“So we are trying to promote this through the Universal Design Mark where we accord recognition to projects that have gone over and beyond the basic requirement.”

Representatives from the 31 projects will receive their awards on 22 May. 

By Suzanne Mahler


Posted May. 10, 2014 @ 2:00 pm

When the UK’s John Brookes visited the Toronto Botanical Garden recently, it was a rare opportunity for midtown gardeners to learn from one of the world’s foremost garden design experts.

Over the course of two lectures and a four-day class, Brookes led aspiring designers through his creative process and shared his personal favourites from among the hundreds of gardens that he’s designed around the world.

After his final lecture we asked Brookes and Paul Zammit, horticulture director at Toronto Botanical Garden, for some tips on how local greenthumbs can design their own gardens at home.

Begin with a simple design, and don’t try to make it all happen at once Brookes emphasizes keeping it simple.

“It doesn’t have to be fancy,” he says. “If you don’t know your plants, just work with big clumps of those that you do.”

Zammit, who spent nearly 20 years as a garden centre manager before joining the Botanical Garden six years ago, suggests basing a design on certain factors, such as the amount of sunlight in a given location (edible plants need the sunniest space). If preparing a shaded space for children, don’t plant trees where they’ll block your best light.

“Know what the garden’s role is going to be,” Zammit says. “Then start with one portion at a time.”

Invest in your infrastructure

“Include decent pavings,” Brookes says, and Zammit agrees. “Good hardscaping not only provides structure, form and shape, but is also key for maintaining the garden,” Zammit notes.

Effective paving leads visitors through your garden, showing them where to look, and facilitates access for the gardener too.

“I have maintenance paths to get to my bed, and they all lead back to the composter,” Zammit says.

Which leads to gardening infrastructure’s other half: investing in soil is critical too. Zammit encourages aspiring gardeners to compost.

Consider your plants carefully

Brookes and Zammit differ on this one, with Brookes emphasizing choosing plants you’re familiar with, while Zammit encourages home gardeners to visit public gardens, find out what appeals to them and choose a combination of plants that provide year-round interest.

Ornamental grasses such as feather reedgrass and fountaingrass look as beautiful in the winter as they do in summer, but Zammit does recommend knowing whether you want high-maintenance or low-maintenance plants, and planning accordingly.

Include the odd raised bed or container

Ceramic containers add height and dimension to a garden, and allow plants to grow in places they otherwise wouldn’t, such as on a patio.

Raised beds — 12–16-inch wooden support beams used to create a foundation of soil where none existed — can also be useful, and are often used by urban gardeners to grow vegetables.

They can also raise the level of a garden, which is useful for people with mobility difficulties.

Involve every member of the family

“Have something the kids might enjoy growing as well,” Brookes says. “Lettuce or radishes — something simple.”

Zammit agrees, saying that growing vegetables is a good way to encourage children to learn about where their food comes from.

“Kids are more likely to eat peas they’ve grown themselves than if you buy them,” he says.

Vegetables aren’t the only plant that can be a hit with kids, however. Butterfly bush is one that not only attracts the eponymous
insects but comes in a variety of bright colours, like orange, pink and red.

“Recognizing that your act of gardening is not just for aesthetic value, but also includes environmental value, is a great message
to teach children,” Zammit says.

By Suzanne Mahler


Posted May. 10, 2014 @ 2:00 pm

When Hickory Elementary School teacher Wendy Rodgers took her students out of class Friday morning to join the rest of the school’s students and teachers for an assembly, she had no idea that it had been called for her.

Rodgers, who teaches second grade at the school, soon found out that she would receive a minigrant she applied for to develop a curriculum that would involve students designing a garden.

“Ever since I started teaching, I wanted to do a community garden,” she said. “It’s a module that we do as part of science; they learn about plants and growth cycle and that sort of thing, and with this population of students, a lot of them don’t have the opportunity to go outside and experience that.”

Schools Superintendent Clayton Wilcox and officials from the Washington County Public Schools Education Foundation presented Rodgers with a check for $998.

The minigrant will help pay for iPads that the students can use to research and design their gardens to grow the right type of foods to meet the nutritional needs of the population.

The students will also calculate costs, write a proposal and eventually present their design to the class.

Rodgers jumped up and down when she received the check, shouting “Yes!” as it was presented.

“These kids mean the world to me,” an emotional Rodgers said later. “When I see what they go through every day, to be able to give them something to take into the community, I’m so excited.”

Robin Rose, coordinator of Washington County Public Schools community partnerships and development, said that such a program could address the needs of the community.

“This is a high FARM (Free and Reduced Meals) rate school, and nutrition is an issue, and hunger is an issue in this school, so we felt that teaching the kids at a young age how to plant a garden, how to nurture a garden, teaching them about healthy foods as opposed to processed foods, would help not only the students but have a larger reaching impact on the community, as well,” she said.

The education foundation presented minigrants to teachers at 11 schools across the county Thursday and Friday, which were “prize patrol” days. Officials went to each school to present the checks.

A web-based math program, the installation of a weather station and vegetable mats in a horticulture class were among the projects that received the grants.

In addition to Hickory, other schools with winning teachers included Hancock Elementary, Hancock Middle Senior High, Maugansville Elementary, Washington County Technical High, Marshall Street, Cascade Elementary, Rockland Woods Elementary, Pleasant Valley Elementary, Boonsboro High and South Hagerstown High.

Rose said the foundation gave out $9,618.75 this year, most of which was donated by county school system employees.

“WCPS employees donate a considerable amount of money that’s used primarily for the awarding of the minigrants,” she said. “We’d like to award every teacher who submits a proposal, but unfortunately our resources are not that expansive or vast.”

Since 2008, Rose said the foundation has awarded more than $80,000 in minigrants.

“It’s very rewarding to be able to give this much money back to teachers who work so hard each and every day, sometimes without the resources that they need, to really be creative and give our kids an advantage here in Washington County,” she said. “We can help the teachers have the opportunities to have an innovative and creative way to teach our children.”

Minigrant winners

Here are the winners of this year’s Washington County Public Schools Education Foundation minigrants:

• Hancock Elementary School

Teacher: Danette Santor

Award: $500.00

Project: “IXL at Math”

• Hancock Middle Senior High

Teacher: Tom Mazzone

Award: $983.78

Project: “Veg-mat-able”

• Maugansville Elementary School

Teacher: Colleen Ayling

Award: $997.20

Project: “Intermediate Life Skills Garden”

• Hickory Elementary School

Teacher: Wendy Rodgers

Award: $998.00

Project: “Second Grade Community Garden”

• Washington County Technical High School

Teacher: John Jones

Award: $945.00

Project: “Recreating the Photography of the Great Depression”

• Marshall Street School

Teacher: Kathryn Quigley

Award: $999.69

Project: “Adaptive Music”

• Cascade Elementary School

Teacher: Erin Code

Award: $894.05

Project: “Math Ops Math Fair”

• Rockland Woods Elementary School

Teacher: Lorna Burdick

Award: $775.00

Project: “How’s the Weather Up There?”

• Pleasant Valley Elementary

Teacher: Daniel Lindner

Award: $752.27

Project: “We Can Do the Rubik’s Cube”

• Boonsboro High School

Teacher: Jacqueline Rebok

Award: $778.00

Project: “French Authentic Literacy”

• South Hagerstown High School

Teacher: Aubrey Hammond

Award: $995.76

Project: “Creative Studio Portraits”