Melinda Merrill

Melinda Merrill, Center Middle School Gifted Teacher, is organizing her students to participate in a paper recycling contest.Mrs. Merrill will come to your business to pick up your recyclable paper (newspaers, magazines, office and school papers, shopping catalogs, and mail are acceptable) . The school that has the largest increase in recycling during the months of February, March and April will be awarded $2,400 from Abatibi Recycling.

Students at Center Middle School in Kansas City engaged in environmental field studies with national research scientists as a part of Missouri NEA member Melinda Merrill's Students as Scholars Institute.

Merrill, a middle school science and gifted-education teacher, received a $5,000 NEA Student Achievement Grant for her project.Merrill and her partners, Mauranda Douglas, Tyler Osborn, Sara Wickham, implement an interdisciplinary unit on watersheds.

Melinda MerrillMiddle School Science TeacherCenter School District