Awards/Recognitions/Grants

• January 2004 - Best Buy Te@ch Award - This award was granted to Garry Wilcox and Paula Ann Trevino for the creation of the online geography course. Funding from this award has allowed for the expansion of the student web pages and student work sections of the course. Specifically, funding allowed for further implementation of the basic units, the creation of student projects and further exploration and development of possible GIS projects.

• May 2004 - Selected as a winner for the TeachNet Lesson Award - This award acknowledged the Honors Geography web site as one which is a model web site for Social Studies education.

• November 2004 - Selected as presenters at the NCSS (National Council for the Social Studies) Annual Conference to be held in Baltimore, Maryland.