Rotary Good Idea Grant Award Winners Celebrated

26 TUSD teachers and staff members are recipients of Rotary Good Idea Grants. Their projects were chosen among many proposals submitted by teachers and staff in the district. 

The Tustin Santa Ana Rotary Club awarded more than $10,400 in grants during a luncheon this week. The purpose of the Good Idea program is to encourage classroom teachers and staff’s ideas and methodology, to enhance the instructional program offered to students in the District, and to recognize the exemplary efforts of TUSD teachers and staff.

Congratulations to recipients Mayra Aguilera DeSouza (Guin Foss), Emi Anthony and Emma Munguia (Heideman), Alyssa Calderone (Benson), Kylie Chen-Haughton and Eline Baroudy (Beckman), Vici Cope (Elementary Music), Kimberly Cunningham (Hicks Canyon), Catherine Desrosiers, Stephanie Smith, Ashlee Romberger, Tara Bullock, Jaylyn Vaughn and Kim Fairburn (Tustin Connect), Connor Drake (Heritage), Roselyn Edwards (Arroyo), Jeanette Eldridge (LMA), Patrick Erickson (Utt), Melanie Formaneck (Utt), Bijou Kim (Beswick), Samantha Marriott (Loma Vista), Danielle Rodriquez (ATP), Jaclyn Spangler (Benson), Jessamy Tran (Heritage), Loc Troung (Beckman) and Vinnie Yeung (Red Hill).