Welcome New Friends, Drink Coffee & Win $$$ INSIDE BRYAN ISD (Issue 24)

PROUDLY SPONSORED BY CHICK-FIL-A BRYAN

KNOW SOMEONE WHO IS NEW TO BCS?

Let’s Show Them Around | This Month: West Bryan

There are exciting events & activities going on in and around BCS every day! Tell your new friend about them. This month, we’re exploring the exciting world that is West Bryan.

Speaking of The Children’s Museum & Coffee…

They’re hosting a BCS Coffee Crawl!

Learn More & Register

Last but not least, there’s a new Chick-fil-A in West Bryan! You can visit them at 1542 W Villa Maria Rd. (next to the Walmart).

West Bryan Things2Do Links

KUDOS

NICOLE PONZIO, Johnson Elementary PE Teacher – Earned the 2021 Excellence in Action Award by the Texas A&M College of Education & Human Development & the Good Neighbor Partnerships. (Pictured on the smartphone in the image below)

WHITNEY POWERS, Rayburn Intermediate 5th-grade math teacher – Named the Brookshire Brothers Top Elementary Teacher of the Brazos Valley by the voters of Insite Brazos Valley Magazine’s teacher contest. (Pictured on the coffee mug)

JOHN ROKENBROD, Bryan ISD Software & Records Analyst – Awarded the MCCi The Technology Leadership Award for business processes. (Pictured on the left in the old school photo print)

GINGER CARRABINE, Bryan ISD Interim Superintendent – Additional Kudos goes to Ginger Carrabine who started her new role as Interim Superintendent this month. She has served as both chief of staff and deputy superintendent in Bryan ISD, and has a long, extensive career in public education. Ms. Carrabine is already hard at work building on Dr. Christie Whitbeck’s strong legacy during this interim period.

If you missed Ms. Carrabine’s letter to the community, you can read it at bryanisd.org/superintendent

WAY TO SHOW UP. YOU WON!

Congratulations to our first Show Up & Win winners! The HR Department made its way around Bryan ISD to award prizes. Nine more raffles will go on throughout the year!

$100 Gift Cards:

Texas Roadhouse – Kate Hancock, Deaf Education
Home Depot – Dawn Sand, Rayburn Intermediate School
Olive Garden/Cheddars – Bethany Meine, Bryan High School

$500 H-E-B Gift Card:

Ashley Sharp, Bonham Elementary School
Caitlyn Martin, Kemp-Carver Elementary School
Sheena Moore, SFA Middle School

$1,000 checks:

Debra Malmstrom, Bowen Elementary School
Michael Mills, Transportation
James Wright, Bryan High School

WINNER, WINNER, CHICKEN DINNER!

In addition to being an all-around great guy, Bryan ISD Painter Gilbert Ortega might have a future as an improv actor! Gilbert was tasked with giving an awards speech for his $50 Chick-fil-A gift card award and knocked it out of the park!

He seamlessly handled the curveball of thanking random items that were handed to him in his speech. 😀 Check out the inspiring speech…

Gilbert was selected as this month’s gift card winner for the “Caption This” submission below for a Bryan High Softball homerun celebration that coaches Loren Cooper
and Vinnie Carreon missed because of the engaging conversation below.

Gilbert’s wife Patricia, Bryan ISD administrative assistant, was nice enough to let the Inside Bryan ISD staff know that his gift card selection wasn’t the only milestone he reached this month. On Sept. 18 he turned 50 years young! One of the ways the family celebrated was by putting the Chick-fil-A gift card to good use. Their son Joaquin Ortega was especially appreciative of Gilbert’s gift card win. 😀

Happy birthday, Gilbert! 🎉