McDonald’s awards $500 grant to Cloverdale teacher for chicken project

McDonald’s owner/operator Paul Jedele (holding check) presents a $500 MAC Grant to Cloverdale High School teacher Chelsey Meluch as CHS students in her class provide encouragement. Meluch plans to use the grant to study the reproduction of chickens.

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CLOVERDALE – McDonald’s restaurants across Indiana and Southwest Michigan are supporting teachers by presenting a series of MAC Grants this fall. Each $500 MAC (Make Activities Count) Grant is designed to help local teachers fund new and exciting projects designed to engage their students in creative ways.

Local McDonald’s owner/operator Paul Jedele recently presented a $500 check to Chelsey Meluch, a teacher at Cloverdale High School. Meluch plans to use the $500 to launch a new project where students will study the reproduction of chickens. Students will incubate chicken eggs, hatch the eggs and raise the chickens.

MAC Grants are designed to provide educators with the resources they need to create new and exciting learning experiences for their students. McDonald’s hopes this MAC Grant will allow for some unique projects and/or enhanced classroom experiences for students.

McDonald’s owner/operators are recognized in many communities throughout the country for entrepreneurship and their commitment to our local schools and communities. In an effort to continue that commitment, McDonald’s owner/operators in Indiana and Southwest Michigan will provide approximately 50 individual teachers with MAC Grants with the goal of helping build important personal career or business skills for students.

For decades, working at McDonald’s has offered restaurant employees the chance to learn transferable skills on the job such as teamwork, customer service, accountability, and communication in a collaborative environment with the schedule flexibility to meet their needs.

Students and those looking to continue their schooling or return to school can also enroll in McDonald’s signature education and career advising program Archways to Opportunity. The program provides eligible employees at participating restaurants an opportunity to earn college tuition assistance, a high school diploma, access free education and career advising services and learn English as a second language. So far in 2022, local McDonald’s restaurants across Indiana and Southwest Michigan have provided more than $170,000 in tuition assistance to help employees continue their education.

Job seekers can visit McDonalds.com/careers or text APPLY to 38000 to learn more and apply to a restaurant near them. They can also start a job application by saying, “Alexa, help me get a job at McDonald’s” to any Alexa device or saying “Google, help me get a job at McDonald’s” to any device with the Google Assistant built in. Potential applicants will receive a text message shortly thereafter with a link to continue their application process.