Baltimore City Teacher Wins CIA Contest To Upgrade School Technology

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — What teacher Jenna Porter thought was a gathering with the main turned retired to beryllium the biggest astonishment she’s ever had.

The grin shone done her disguise astatine Roland Park Elementary School erstwhile she recovered retired she won a $25,000 due to the fact that she recovered retired she won a $25,000 prize from the CIA and their Mission Possible schoolroom translation competition.

“I’m successful daze close now,” she said. “I thought this was going to beryllium a clime gathering for adjacent year.”

The wealth volition spell to upgrading technology. The talented kids took each these photos utilizing their ain phones! She submitted this video aft applying and it paid disconnected large time, making it a game-changer for her students.

“There’s conscionable endless possibilities we’ll beryllium capable to usage these cameras for particularly with collaboration,” she said.

Michael Holtz works with the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, which manages the program.

“The 25k volition beryllium large for the students she’ll person successful the upcoming schoolhouse twelvemonth but she’ll person this instrumentality for years to travel truthful fundamentally this prize for her volition acceptable the stage,” helium said.

Principal Amanda Brown said Porter is simply a recognition to Roland Park Elementary.

“She reached retired with this imaginativeness astir our photography programme with different ways to grow to creation and she brings her passionateness each time to school,” she smiles.

Out with the aged iPhones. Here travel DSLR cameras, supplies and caller abstraction for creativity. Little Eden, Brown’s daughter, handing Porter the cheque simultaneously changes the luck of the young minds of tomorrow.

Blushing done the deserving attention, Porter has earned the respect of her peers and her students.

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“It conscionable comes down to them, she said. “Everything I bash is astir them.”