Marilyn Hall, Volunteer at Sacajawea Elementary School, nominated by The Sacajawea PRIDE Committee at Sacajawea Elementary School.

Marilyn has given countless hours as a volunteer running Sacajawea’s PRIDE store sponsored by Sacajawea’s PRIDE committee and the teachers of Sacajawea Elementary. The token store rewards student behavior with spendable tokens. Our store would not have been a success without Mrs. Hall’s dedication. She could be counted on the last Friday of every month to open, organize, clean up, and supervise the student workers in our PRIDE store. We at Sacajawea Elementary are very appreciative of the time Marilyn Hall has donated each month. Without volunteers like Marilyn Hall, school wide projects like this one, would not be possible and without her expertise the store would not have been successful.

Beth Wiles, Science Teacher at Great Falls High School and Jessica Patrick, Science Teacher at C M Russell High School, nominated by Elaine Blythe, Science Teacher at Paris Gibson Education Center.

Beth and Jessica are both creative and dedicated teachers. Both of them came to the work sessions with open minds and a willingness to work as a team. They did the teaming very well, playing off each other and bouncing ideas between each other (and to me) as they produced the FOS tests.

Tara Rosipal, Student Advocate at East Middle School, nominated by Pat Volkmar, Industrial Technology Teacher at North Middle School.

It was a very smooth transition from the school year into summer school which was easier for the kids to adapt too. She worked to make it a fun experience for the kids and not just a school environment. I think most of the kids enjoyed it and it is all thanks to Tara, without her it wouldn’t have worked half as well as it did.

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Katie Kotynski, Program Assistant in Information Services at The District Offices, nominated by Pat Volkmar, Industrial Technology Teacher at North Middle School.

All of the members of the Grizzly business would like to sincerely thank Katie Kotynski for all the work she does and all she has taught us about the computers.

She has come in and taught us about how to make websites, edit them and get us onto the web, making it a very smooth transition. It would have been very hard for us to do it without her and now that we know it is much easier for all of us since she taught us we are able to teach the other classes. Since she helped us we saved a lot of time because now we don’t have to look it up ourselves and can just get fight to working on it and now we can take orders from all over the country. She also helped by answering every question we had and still answers them to this day.

Alex Ferguson, Volunteer at North Middle School, nominated by Pat Volkmar, Industrial Technology Teacher at North Middle School. .

Alex provides his trailer for us to haul things in and to cook the food (we call it the mobile classroom). He also usually brings his 4-wheeler and drives around and helps during the clean-up at every Fishing Club trip which highly assists us quickens the process. He also brings supplies to help kids make lures and flies or any tackle needed.

Alex always comes to Walleye Camp and provides his boat for the photographer and also always teaches the kids how to tie flies. All of the kids really enjoy tying flies and for some it is one of their favorite activities at camp.

Alex is a very vital component to all of the fishing club trips and helps with every part and has always been there even if things were planned at the last minute.