Wheeler to use McDonald’s grant to help revive GHS newspaper

Tuesday, November 29, 2022
Greencastle High School teacher Donovan Wheeler (third from left) is presented a $500 MAC Grant from Greencastle McDonald’s owner Tim Jedele (right) and Manager Barbara Alexander (left) as GHS students Joseph Hale, Alyssa Campfield and Grace Long look on during the recent presentation. Wheeler plans to use the grant to revive the student-run GHS newspaper.
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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.

Recently, local McDonald’s Owner/Operator Tim Jedele presented a $500 check to Greencastle High School teacher Donovan Wheeler.

Wheeler will be using the $500 to revive the student-run GHS newspaper, The Inkpot. The paper faded away during the COVID-19 pandemic after almost a century of operation.

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 the MAC Grant will allow for some unique projects and/or enhanced classroom experiences for students.

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.

Thus 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.

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  • Such good news for GHS. Reviving the ink pot is a wonderful idea. Thank you

    -- Posted by Nit on Tue, Nov 29, 2022, at 4:37 PM
  • No better teacher/mentor to lead this effort than Mr. Wheeler!

    -- Posted by joebuser on Tue, Nov 29, 2022, at 6:20 PM
  • All around positive story for GHS with the leadership of Mr. Wheeler and the financial assistance from McDonald's Mr. Jedele.

    -- Posted by Lookout on Wed, Nov 30, 2022, at 2:37 PM
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