Fayette Academy Ecology Club 

Biology II and the Ecology Club collaborate providing 58 bat habitats in our community.  Our sponsor, Donna Burrus, won the National Science Teachers Association Environmental Educator of the Year .  She was nominated by SeaWorld after sharing the video about that outlines the club's work with the $10,000 they won from SeaWorld Busch Gardens as one of ten schools in the nation recognized for their environmental work. This year Cory Holiday with the Tennessee Nature Conservancy, nominated Donna Burrus for the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency's Environmental Educator of the Year for her years of work with this bat project.  Sponsor Donna Burrus, along with students, Cody Cunningham and Alex Wilson, presented their STEM Bat project to the Tennessee Bat Working Group which focuse on an artifical tree to be placed in the Wolf River to provide habitat for the endangered Indiana Bat that has recently been observed in Mississippii just over the Tennessee line in the state forest.