CALABASAS, Calif.— Two Heartland Career Center teachers were among five Indiana high school skilled trades teachers who are among the 52 teachers and teacher teams from across the country who were named today as semifinalists for the Harbor Freight Tools for Schools 2018 Prize for Teaching Excellence and are in the running for a share of $1 million in cash prizes.
Malcolm Stalcup, a welding teacher at John Hinds Career Center in Elwood, and two teams of teachers—construction trades teachers Jim Hoover and Brian Evans from the Heartland Career Center in Wabash, and the team of Steve Owen and Andrice Tucker, who teach automotive service technology at the Central Nine Career Center in Greenwood—were chosen from among a field of more than 500 skilled trades teachers who applied for the prize. The semifinalists—some competing as individuals and some as teacher teams—hail from 27 states and specialize in trades ranging from construction and carpentry to automotive repair, welding, advanced manufacturing and agriculture mechanics.