Don’t just pretend … Go for IT!!!

My journey just keeps getting better….$1000 better.  If you recall from my earlier post about “Life is a Journey; not a Destination,” in grad school I was given the assignment to go and explore about grants for educational technology. I was awarded $1000 from the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics

Association, AFCEA, for my biodiesel project in the spring! 

Words cannot express what it felt like to open that email this morning. I have been teaching for 3 ½ years; I never would have thought I would be getting a grant this early in my career. I am just over the moon about the whole thing. I was like a little kid this morning….I couldn’t wait to tell everyone!

I am the type of person that once I get an idea in my head…there is nothing stopping me. I am not just going to do it for the grad school grade so I can say I have done it… I am going all the way. I am so glad that I didn’t just stop at exploring but went all the way through the process of applying.

One of the best parts of today was sharing it with a few of my students. I have not told all of them yet because I don’t want to let them down if it doesn’t work, however a few of them did a biodiesel science fair project so they knew what I was working on. (we’ve compared notes!) They were so excited! They couldn’t wait until they got to help lead part of the project.