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In May 2009, Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) announced its first ever winner of an Extreme Classroom Makeover. The Extreme Makeover contest invited East Tennessee middle school science teachers to submit videos explaining why they and their students deserved a $25,000 infusion of technology and facility upgrades.
As part of the launch of ORAU’s Center for Science Education, the Extreme Classroom Makeover provided a new and creative way for ORAU to further its decades-long commitment to furthering the cause of science education.
The 2009 winner, Jenny Alvey of Gresham Middle School in Knoxville, has now begun blogging about her journey starting with the moment she got a surprise visit to her class by a contingent from ORAU and the Knox County Schools Superintendent’s Office to the purchasing of the new equipment, to the daily lessons she will be teaching in the 2009-10 school year.
ORAU intends to make the Extreme Classroom Makeover an annual affair and will use this site to let all future winners keep tabs on their classroom changes.
