From left: Dr. Dave Wallace, Chairman of the St. Charles Chamber of Commerce Education Committee; Lorna Frahm, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the St. Charles Chamber of Commerce; Grayce Perkinson, St. Charles West High School; Theresa Bowles, Hackmann Early Childhood Center; Linda Nagle, Lincoln Elementary School; Greg Spalding, General Motors; Robin Steinhoff, Orchard Farm Middle School; Jaqueline Gray, St. Charles Community College; Claire Felder, St. Charles Chamber of Commerce, Membership Director.
St. Charles Chamber of Commerce
Awards the Ring of Excellence and Trailblazer
The St. Charles Chamber of Commerce presented the Trailblazer Award and The Ring of Excellence Award at their general membership luncheon at the Banquet Center of the Little Hills on Wednesday, October 19, 2005.
The St. Charles Chamber of Commerce established the Trailblazer Award in 1990 to recognize the efforts of business in education and to encourage other businesses to provide appropriate support to the educational systems in our county. This year Lorna Frahm of the Frahm Law Firm and Chairman of the St. Charles Chamber Board of Directors presented the Trailblazer Award to General Motors - Truck Assembly Plant in Wentzville.
Greg Spalding, GM Personnel Director, accepted the Trailblazer on behalf of GM leadership and engineers who developed the Robotics Challenge. The four-week challenge is a real-world project, building a working robot to GM specifications with Lego‚ Mindstorm‰ Kits. On three consecutive demonstration days, student teams travel to GM to present their robots for evaluation by industry inspectors. The students tour the plant and discuss the skilled trade opportunities available there. General Motors sponsors various other education related programs including Non-Traditional Career Day for Young Women, the St. Charles County 8th Grade career Fair, and the Practicum in Business/:Labor for Skills Development for Educators.
The Ring of Excellence Award was established by the St. Charles Chamber of Commerce in 2000 to recognize excellence in the teaching profession. Through the award the chamber hopes to raise public awareness of the exceptional quality of instruction in the greater St. Charles area and show the business community’s appreciation for the tremendous resource we have in our teaching professionals.
The following educators were presented with the Ring of Excellence:
Jacqueline Gray, St. Charles Community College, Professor of English
Grayce Perkinson, St. Charles West High School, History
Robin Steinhoff, Orchard Farm Middle School, Physical Education
Linda Nagle, Lincoln Elementary School, General Studies
Theresa Bowles, Francis Howell Early Childhood Education, Pre-School/Kindergarten
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