The Baldwin County Electric Membership Charitable Foundation presented Star Light Awards to 39 teachers and school faculty members in 2024. Each of the winners received a grant to help them bring innovative projects and programs to their schools.
The grants were made possible by Baldwin EMC’s Operation Round Up program, which collects money for charitable causes by rounding up participating members’ electric bills to the next highest dollar amount.
This is the 14th year that Star Light Awards have been presented. The Baldwin County Electric Membership Charitable Foundation Board, which oversees Operation Round Up, created the program in 2011 to enrich learning at local schools.
Before being named a winner, each teacher or faculty member submitted an application describing his or her project for the board to review.
Star Light awards were presented to the following:
- Alex Homan: Baldwin County High School
- Veronica Monsegur: Baldwin Preparatory Academy
- Brittany Eames: Baldwin Preparatory Academy
- Jennifer Gee: Bay Minette Elementary School
- Beth Caldwell: Christ the King Catholic School
- Rosie Swanson: Christ the King Catholic School
- Anna Hunt: Daphne Middle School
- Priscilla Dabney: Daphne High School
- Jordan Norman: Elsanor Elementary School
- Susan Noon: Elsanor Elementary School
- Faye Sheppard: Fairhope Middle School
- Lisa Tidwell: Foley Elementary School
- Autumn Ford: J. Larry Newton Elementary School
- Jessica Johnson: Loxley Elementary School
- Jessie Holder: Loxley Elementary School
- Caroline Dube: Magnolia Elementary School
- Morgan Darring and Alana Carpenter: Mathis Elementary School
- Emily Rankin: Mathis Elementary School
- Erin Dykes: Orange Beach Elementary School
- Beth Zeitlin: Renaissance Middle and High School
- Mary Hoffman: Robertsdale Elementary School
- Brooke Jacobs: Robertsdale Elementary School
- Greg Ulland: Robertsdale Elementary School
- Georgia Freeman: Robertsdale High School
- Jacob Ramsey: Robertsdale High School
- JJ Fortune: Robertsdale High School
- Jennifer Janey: Robertsdale High School
- Misty Gonzalez: Robertsdale High School
- Schaefer Jones: Rockwell Elementary School
- Lou Anne Lassere: Silverhill / Summerdale Elementary Schools
- Kelly Knapp: Spanish Fort Elementary School
- Kimberly Frank: St. Benedict Catholic School
- Deborah Brown: St. Patrick Catholic School
- Katie Beckmann: St. Patrick Catholic School
- Miska Dembowski: St. Patrick Catholic School
- Sarah McKeough: Stapleton Elementary School
- Jacquelyn Wilson: Stonebridge Elementary School
- Thomas Turner: Silverhill / Summerdale Elementary Schools