BP Awards $750,000 in Grants and Scholarships to Chicagoland Teachers

Educators Honored for Implementing Innovative Classroom Activities that
Promote Energy Education and Conservation

WARRENVILLE, Ill., May 20 /PRNewswire/ -- BP, through its successful A+
for Energy(R) program, will award $750,000 in grants and scholarships to
Chicagoland teachers for creative classroom, after-school, extra-curricular or
summer activities involving energy education and conservation. In all, 70
projects from Cook, DuPage, Kane, Kendall, Lake, McHenry and Will counties
will be awarded cash grants of $5,000 or $10,000. These projects will engage
152 educators and benefit more than 30,000 students during the 2008-2009
school year.
"We are extremely pleased to recognize some of Chicagoland's top teachers,
whose creativity in the classroom inspires and encourages students to be good
energy consumers," said Doris Salomon, BP Community Affairs Director - Midwest
US. "Thanks to the winning teachers, thousands of students will learn about
energy conservation and the importance of diverse energy sources."
In addition to the grant award, BP will provide winning teachers with a
scholarship to attend a three-day energy training conference, sponsored by BP
and presented in partnership with the National Energy Education Development
(NEED) Project and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The
all-inclusive scholarship will cover the cost of travel, meals, lodging and a
kit of instructional materials (tools and resources for teaching energy
activities) valued at $500.
Winning teachers (list attached) will be honored at a special ceremony on
Wednesday, June 18 at 6 p.m. at the Symphony Center in Chicago.
About BP
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of customers every day in more than 100 countries across six continents. BP's
business activities are in exploration and production, refining and marketing,
and its low-carbon BP Alternative Energy division. Through these businesses,
BP provides fuel for transportation, energy for heat and light, retail
services, and petrochemical products. For more information, please visit
http://www.bp.com/us.

COOK COUNTY
LEAD TEACHER SCHOOL NAME/PROJECT CITY

Cynthia House Olive-Mary Stitt School Arlington Heights
Energy Explorations at
Olive-Mary Stitt School

Amy Andrews Abraham Lincoln Elementary School Chicago
How Cool is School?
Living Green: What does it Mean?

Melissa Fleming Bronzeville Academic Center Chicago
Energy, Community, and Me

Jose Contreras- Carson Elementary School Chicago
Espinoza Mi Casa es tu Casa

Ophelia Lee- D.S. Wentworth Elementary School Chicago
Doyle Let's Go Hydro

Todd Bittorf Donald L. Morrill Math and Chicago
Science Specialty School
Sunshine Car

Ines Ornelas Gallistel Language Academy Chicago
Miracle on Renewable Energy
Street

Gloria Hafer George Washington High School Chicago
We Can Do Better With Less

Marc Hans Hanson Park School Chicago
"A Week in the Woods"

Anne McIlvain Henry R. Clissold Elementary Chicago
What If We Do Nothing?

Sora Lim Hibbard Elementary School Chicago
Where is Electricity Born?

Diane Walsh Franco Jamieson Elementary School Chicago
Environmental Art and Science
in an Urban School Garden

Magdalena Laqui John B. Murphy Elementary School Chicago
Building the Lean Green
Energy Machine

Christopher Lin Jones College Preparatory Chicago
Eco Engineering

Cassandra Joyce Kilmer Elementary School Chicago
Riemer Year of the Sun

Sara Diggs Lyman Trumbull Elementary School Chicago
Where is Electricity Born?

Maudie Walls Marcus Garvey School Chicago
To Use Energy is Not to Waste
Energy (Energy Conservation)

Pamela Greyer Marine Military Academy Chicago
From A Child's Eye: Raising
Community Awareness on Energy
Consumption and Conservation

Bob Thomas Mother McAuley Liberal Arts Chicago
High School
Solar and wind energy inquiry
based investigation

Kathleen Gordon Mother McAuley Liberal Arts Chicago
Davis High School
Connections: Energy, Visual Arts
and Our Environment

Roz Iasillo Mother McAuley Liberal Arts Chicago
High School
Energize McAuley - An Alternative
Energy Audit

Ann-Marie Nathanael Greene Elementary Chicago
Chiyeni School
Solar Quest

Cathleen Andes New Field School Chicago
Reduce, Reuse and Recycle with
New Field School

Edwin Irizarry Northwest Middle School Chicago
Earth Energizers

Cynthia Brawner Paderewski Elementary School Chicago
Wind Effects

Lorraine Hellgeth Patrick Henry Elementary School Chicago
Partly Sunny With a Chance of Wind

Mellisa Kazlauskas Sir Miles Davis Magnet Academy Chicago
Sir Miles Davis Magnet Academy
Turns Over a Green Leaf

Daniel Bennett St. Sylvester School Chicago
From Roofs to . . .

Yolanda Sanders Sutherland Elementary School Chicago
Solar Scholars

Leslie Travis William H. Ray Elementary School Chicago
A Stitch in Time Saves Nine

Rosemary Evans St. Mary Star of the Sea Chicago
The Energy Efficiency Squad

Barry Latham Bloom High School Chicago Heights
Free Energy for Me 2008
Motion Minus Petrol 2008

Jill Krysinski Bloom High School Chicago Heights
Bloom High School Biodiesel Bus
Project

Brian Sievers Thornridge High School Dolton
Got Grease? Let's Make Biodiesel

Craig Smith Evanston Township High School Evanston
Environmental Education
Demonstration Project:

Cheryl Tolish Infant Jesus of Prague School Flossmoor
Rays of Hope

Jason Richardson Hester Junior High School Franklin Park
Atoms, Electromagnets and
Windmills: A Sixth Grade Energy
Exploration

David Rupert Matteson School Matteson
Energy Conservation: Today for
Our Future

Barbara Hanifin St. Lawrence O'Toole Matteson
Energy Empowerment

Suzanne Law Hille Middle School Oak Forest
Energy Ambassadors Spread The
Word

Winifred Lau Cardinal Bernardin Catholic School Orland Hills
Go Solar at CJB!

John Mertes Rhodes School River Grove
Rhodes 2020

Kathleen Risolvo George Washington Elementary Schiller Park
School
Sensibly Solar

Travis Patten Calvary Academy South Holland
Solar Energy Solutions for
Energetic Energy Users

DUPAGE COUNTY
LEAD TEACHER SCHOOL NAME/PROJECT CITY

Kathy Sherry Driscoll Catholic High School Addison
A+ For Conservation

Sue Pumo Westfield Elementary School Glen Ellyn
Go Green Club and Energy Science
Festival

Toni Miller St. Pius X Parish School Lombard
Energy Around Us

Susan Pruyn St. Pius X Parish School Lombard
Energized Writing

Linda Bennett Naperville Central High School Naperville
Dynamic Energy Systems
Mobile Energy Education Lab
(MEL)

Lee Richter St. Francis High School Wheaton
Solar Powering Roosevelt Sign

Deb Hamilton Emerson Elementary School Wheaton
Biofuels:

Charlene Klein St. John the Baptist Winfield
Middle School Exploration of
Energy and Conservation Part II

Sara Lasica Holy Ghost School Wood Dale
Reusable News on WHGS-TV

KANE COUNTY
LEAD TEACHER SCHOOL NAME/PROJECT CITY

Clay Sewell Illinois Mathematics and Science Aurora
Academy
Firing a Ceramic Kiln with
Alternative Fuels

Elizabeth Woods Dundee - Crown High School Carpentersville
Sustainability - Mobile Energy
Fair

Joseph Kirkpatrick Saint Charles Borromeo Hampshire
Energy Is Money

Claire Ahs Glenwood School for Boys and St. Charles
Girls
Radiant Energy Curriculum

Greg Reiva Streamwood High School Streamwood
The Alternative Energy Project
at Streamwood High School

KENDALL COUNTY
LEAD TEACHER SCHOOL NAME/PROJECT CITY

Angie Eckstein St. Mary Catholic School Plano
Solar Energy Garden

LAKE COUNTY
LEAD TEACHER SCHOOL NAME/PROJECT CITY

Jacki McMullen Twin Groves Middle School Buffalo Grove
Alternative Energy
Investigations

Thomas Koulentes Highland Park High School Highland Park
Alternative Energy Lab

MCHENRY COUNTY
LEAD TEACHER SCHOOL NAME/PROJECT CITY

Michelle Dare Crystal Lake Central High School Crystal Lake
Solar Panels Reduce School's
Non-Renewable Energy Dependence

Paul Wilm McHenry High School-West Campus McHenry
Solar Energy Home Design
Project

WILL COUNTY
LEAD TEACHER SCHOOL NAME/PROJECT CITY

Erin Llewellyn John R. Tibbott Elementary Bolingbrook
School
Let the Sun Shine In!

Dennis Fulton Richland Grade School Crest Hill
School and Community Energy
Audits

Sandra DeMaso Elwood CCSD #203 Elwood
Elwood Energy Field Day

Tim Fogt' Kenneth L. Hermansen Romeoville
Elementary School
S.O.L.A.R.R. Club

SOURCE BP

Valerie Corr, +1-630-821-3206, valerie.corr@bp.com, or Doris Salomon,
+1-630-821-3216, doris.salomon@bp.com, both of BP