Atlanta’s KIPP Strive Academy wins $25K for science lab
About $25,000 worth of supplies for a new science lab will be unveiled Wednesday at KIPP Strive Academy, which won a national contest sponsored by FedEx.
The gifts will be used to enrich science, technology, engineering and math education at the West End charter school.
KIPP Strive Academy won the contest after seventh-grade teacher Jennifer Freeman submitted a video about the possibilities her students saw for the school. The video was posted online and earned the most votes among five finalists.
The FedEx One Rate, Countless Possibilities Through Education program was open to Teach for America alumni who have been teaching for more than five years.
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Mark Niesse is an enterprise reporter and covers elections and Georgia government for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and is considered an expert on elections and voting. Before joining the AJC, he worked for The Associated Press in Atlanta, Honolulu and Montgomery, Alabama. He also reported for The Daily Report and The Santiago Times in Chile.
