Hageman Wins $50K

Published by admin on Mon, 07/13/2020 - 9:34am

With students gathered in the gymnasium Thursday, school board president Wendy Mihm-Herold asked for assistance in congratulating one of South Winneshiek’s own. A short time later, South Winneshiek agriculture instructor Melissa Hageman arrived.

A standing ovation greeted Hageman after winning $50,000 with the 2018 Harbor Freight Tools for Schools Prize for Teaching Excellence.

Hageman was one of 15 second-place winners. Fellow Iowan William Dunham, an industrial technology instructor at Wapello, also took second place.

“What I love most about what I teach is that every day and course is different,” Hageman wrote in her prize application, as provided by Harbor Freight Thursday.

Read more in the Nov. 20 edition of the Calmar Courier.