18-04-2025
Creative Classroom Contest winner shares update on classroom purchase
COLUMBIANA, Ohio (WKBN) – One of WKBN's Creative Classroom winners shared what she is doing with her winnings.
Lauren Franken, a first-grade teacher at Heartland Christian School, received $500 from WKBN's Creative Classroom Contest in December.
Franken said she used the money to buy supplies for incubating eggs and housing baby chicks in her classroom. She shared photos with WKBN earlier this week.
In the past, she has shared an incubator with another teacher while students learn about the life cycle of baby chicks. She said in her contest entry that she believed that having her own incubator would be beneficial for students as they could watch the hatching process live and understand the complexities of life cycles firsthand.
'Thank you so much for offering this grant to all teachers. It was a great experience for us and one that I can continue on for many years to come!' she said in an email to WKBN.
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