Press release from Henderson County Public Schools:
HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. (Nov. 9, 2016) – Henderson Oil Company awarded a total of $8,000 in ExxonMobil Educational Alliance grants to 16 Henderson County Public Schools on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016, supplying elementary, middle and high school principals with extra funds for literacy and Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) teaching materials and programming.
Atkinson Elementary, Bruce Drysdale Elementary, Clear Creek Elementary, Dana Elementary, Glenn C. Marlow Elementary, Hillandale Elementary, Edneyville Elementary, Mills River Elementary, Upward Elementary, Flat Rock Middle, Hendersonville Middle, Rugby Middle, East Henderson High, Hendersonville High, North Henderson High, and West Henderson High each received $500 to fund school-specific local programs.
Mills River Elementary and Hillandale Elementary will put the funds toward participation in the 5th grade outdoor education program, Muddy Sneakers. Atkinson Elementary, Dana Elementary Flat Rock Middle, Hendersonville Middle, East Henderson High will use their $500 checks to update math and science materials and lab equipment. Upward Elementary and North Henderson plan to use their funds for math fluency programs while Bruce Drysdale Elementary will use its $500 on its literacy fluency program. West Henderson High will use its funds to continue the school’s Science Olympiad team and program, while Clear Creek Elementary will spend the $500 on an interactive family science night and Glenn C. Marlow Elementary will jumpstart its new STEM Club with the funds. Edneyville Elementary’s $500 grant will supplement its robotics team, and Rugby Middle School plans to use the funds in its Project Lead the Way program.
Awarded on a first-come, first-served basis, 4,300 ExxonMobil Educational Alliance grants totaling $2.15 million were awarded to schools across the country this year in a matter of 75 minutes. Although the grant application window opened at the height of the gas pipeline break in mid-September, ExxonMobil Territory Manager Pablo Salmon helped Henderson Oil Company secure 31 of these $500 grants for a total of $15,500 – more than half of which were granted to HCPS.
Salmon said he knows Henderson Oil Company’s President Bill McKibbin, Vice President Barry Edwards, Vice President & Controller Paul Jordan, and Administrative Assistant Connie Edwards are very active in the Henderson County community and look forward to distributing the grants each year.
Superintendent Bo Caldwell thanked Henderson Oil Company and ExxonMobil, stating, “This is what makes Henderson County so great: the school system and the community coming together.”
Since 2000, Henderson Oil Company and ExxonMobil have provided $203,750 in education grants to North Carolina, South Carolina and east Tennessee. Of that number, $103,250 has been awarded to schools in Henderson County.
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