TVA IT Information Officer Scott Self, right, talks with Charley Spencer as colorful tactile learning aides adorn all the pre-K through fifth grade work tables in the new TVA STEAM learning room at Woodmore Elementary. Students at Woodmore Elementary School have a newly renovated room dedicated to learning about science, technology, engineering, arts and math.
The room, which recently got a bright coat of paint, had been unused for quite some time and served as a storage room. That is, until a group of Tennessee Valley Authority employees volunteered their time to help renovate it.
They did it, they said, because they wanted to show their support for the school after last year’s fatal bus crash that killed six children, said Ginger Brasher, TVA’s senior information technology secretary.
“[We] wanted to give back to the community to help them bounce back,” said Drew Rimback, one of the TVA volunteers. “We can’t imagine what they went through.”
Hamilton County Superintendent Bryan Johnson praised the project.