News Talk 94.1/AM 1600 Where The Upper Cumberland Talks
Prescott South Middle School has been named one of three Upper Cumberland middle schools to receive a STEM Start-Up and Expansion Grant.
Principal Tera Brooks said that the $8,300 state grant will help get materials and updates for the school’s greenhouse.
“The thing that we’re working on is that we need a storage building for some of our materials,” Brooks said. “We’ve got a lot of things that have gotten ruined because it’s kind of sitting out because we don’t have the proper storage so we’re going to get a big storage building and we’re also going to get some tools to replenish the loss of the materials we’ve had so we can get students in there and they can work hands-on.”
Brooks said that by fixing the storage issue in the greenhouse, the school can also provide more options to send students home with fresh produce they’ve grown in the school’s backpack program.
Brooks said that the school also hopes to partner with horticulture students at Tennessee Tech and students at TCAT Livingston. She said that the idea is to help students start to think of horticulture as something long-term that can extend past high school.
“What we’re wanting to do is kind of make a trajectory for career paths in our high school and then even on when they get out post-secondary into college,” Brooks said. “So we’re trying to do partnerships with Lviginston TCAT and also with TTU to kind of bring in those experiences for our kids so they can see that yes, we have a path that they can go through in high school but that it’s also past high school so looking into college and things of that nature.”
The other middle schools include White County Middle School and Pine View Middle School in Cumberland County
