FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 16, 2005
Contact: Anika Mitchell Perkins
(662) 329-7124

Hunt named Mississippi PLT Educator of the Year
  
COLUMBUS, Miss. – Dr. Barbara Hunt, Mississippi University for Women professor of education, was named the Mississippi Project Learning Tree (PLT) Educator of the Year.
   
Project Learning Tree is an environmental science program for pre-service and in-service teachers who are trained at a PLT workshop and receive teaching materials for attending.
   
“For nine years (the time Hunt has served at MUW), I have worked with these wonderful people (Mississippi Forestry workshop facilitators). All of our undergraduates have attended these workshops every semester.”
   
A longtime supporter of PLT, Hunt is a key player in the Columbus City School Choice program. She will work directly with Mitchell Elementary to help it become a Project Learning Tree School Model, which would be created through a grant from PLT and other contributions.
   
Hunt also competed for the national PLT Educator of the Year award and was given a $500 stipend to help pay her expenses to attend the PLT international conference in Oregon in June..