About Matt Gerry
Matt Gerry is a guitar teacher at Salina South Middle School in Salina, KS. In his 19 years at the school, he has built a guitar program that has become very well respected across the nation. His students were selected as the grand prize winners in the "Makin' Wishes with Weezer" contest in 2010, and were fortunate enough to meet the rock band via webchat and also received new classroom equipment for being the winners of the contest. In 2017 they were awarded grants from the Give A Note Foundation and the Country Music Association Foundation. That same year they were also awarded a Radio Disney Music Award and were featured in a commercial on the Disney Channel. Mr. Gerry was named the Salina "Teacher of the Year" and was a semi-finalist for the state of Kansas' "Teacher of the Year" in 2012. He holds a music education degree from Wichita State University, and a master's degree from Kansas State University in educational leadership.
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