2009 "My Place" Award Winner
“My Place” is a a project designed for fourth through sixth grade students and helps promote patriotism through a creative outlet. The project illustrates their place in their home, neighborhood, school, community, state, nation and world. All of these places must be represented in the completed project. In 2009, Elayne Whitten’s gifted class at Sarah Cobb elementary School, Americus, took first place and received a $400 grant for their entry, entitled “The Giant Peach”. The students covered an exercise ball with peach colored tissue paper and made a collage of images of Georgia covering a 3-d cutout of the word GEORGIA. The students were treated to a pizza party following the check presentation.
To participate, the deadline for the 2010 project is February 12, 2010. To access the guidelines, click My Place guidelines.
The Seal of the Georgia Society is that of the Colonial Trustees of Georgia, encircled by the name of the Society. Two figures resting upon urns represent the rivers Savannah and Altamaha, the northeastern and southwestern borders of the colony.