By : Matt Hayes
Source : http://www.theithacajournal.com
Category : Film School Online
A Volkswagen engine that runs on propane, iPads to improve language skills and workshops on documentary filmmaking will be a few of the projects receiving funding as part of $14,900 in grants from the Ithaca Public Education Initiative.
The grants from the winter cycle are awarded to Ithaca City School District teachers, staff, students and community partners.
Ranging from $350 to $2,450, the $5,400 in community grants support curricular-enhancing programs within the school district. Grant awardees include: 14 weekly creative movement and theater skills classes taught at Lehman Alternative Community School; a three-week Latin American culture immersion by artist Jorge Cuevas at South Hill Elementary School; girl empowerment by Project Look Sharp and Nia Nunn Makepeace at Beverly J. Martin Elementary School; workshops by film director Nico Celik for high school, middle school, Tompkins Cortland Community College and Cornell University students to learn how to create a documentary film about their own neighborhoods; and a summer gardening project offered by Liz Falk of Cornell Cooperative Extension for ten DeWitt Middle School students to maintain the school's vegetable garden.
Capped at $500 and totaling $9,500, the Red and Gold Grants offer one-time awards for projects within the school district. Funding includes two iPads for DeWitt Middle School teachers Kelda McGurk and Stephanie Swearingen for occupational therapy and speech and language skill enhancement, as well funds for Ithaca High School senior Andy Mullen to make a propane-run Volkswagen engine as part of an engineering course.
Other grants, listed by school, include the Ithaca High School projects Duck Bike by Duncan Smith; Main Office Beautification by Judy Cameron; Rugged Audio/Video Equipment by Craig Cowell; and Automatic Baseball Catcher by Rueben Brenner-Adams, to also be used at Lehman Alternative School.
Lehman Alternative School projects include Donating Aspergers Books by Thomas Murphy; and Nook Books for Library Nooks by Mariah Prentiss.
Boynton Middle School projects include Video Library for Earth Science and Physical Science by Pat Wyckoff; 7th Grade Life Science Video Library by Dennis Carbone; Vibrant Visuals by Victoria Benson; and Using Technology to Support Students with Disabilities by Emily Vogel, which will also be at DeWitt Middle School.
Fall Creek Elementary projects include Listening to Reading for All by Diana Lamphier; Books, Books, Books! by Annarose Foley; and Sensory Integration in the Classroom by Carrie Nolan.
Belle Sherman Elementary projects went to Chinese Paper Cutting and Legends by Sarah Locke-Mountin; and Seeing Trees in Winter by Peggy Dolan.
Single-school projects went to Play in the Kindergarten Classroom by Beth Wixson at South Hill Elementary, and Technology Integration by Caitlyn VanderMaas at Caroline Elementary.
Source : http://www.theithacajournal.com/article/20120205/NEWS01/202050341/IPEI-announces-nearly-15-000-granted-Ithaca-education?odyssey=nav|head
Source : http://www.theithacajournal.com
Category : Film School Online
A Volkswagen engine that runs on propane, iPads to improve language skills and workshops on documentary filmmaking will be a few of the projects receiving funding as part of $14,900 in grants from the Ithaca Public Education Initiative.
The grants from the winter cycle are awarded to Ithaca City School District teachers, staff, students and community partners.
Ranging from $350 to $2,450, the $5,400 in community grants support curricular-enhancing programs within the school district. Grant awardees include: 14 weekly creative movement and theater skills classes taught at Lehman Alternative Community School; a three-week Latin American culture immersion by artist Jorge Cuevas at South Hill Elementary School; girl empowerment by Project Look Sharp and Nia Nunn Makepeace at Beverly J. Martin Elementary School; workshops by film director Nico Celik for high school, middle school, Tompkins Cortland Community College and Cornell University students to learn how to create a documentary film about their own neighborhoods; and a summer gardening project offered by Liz Falk of Cornell Cooperative Extension for ten DeWitt Middle School students to maintain the school's vegetable garden.
Capped at $500 and totaling $9,500, the Red and Gold Grants offer one-time awards for projects within the school district. Funding includes two iPads for DeWitt Middle School teachers Kelda McGurk and Stephanie Swearingen for occupational therapy and speech and language skill enhancement, as well funds for Ithaca High School senior Andy Mullen to make a propane-run Volkswagen engine as part of an engineering course.
Other grants, listed by school, include the Ithaca High School projects Duck Bike by Duncan Smith; Main Office Beautification by Judy Cameron; Rugged Audio/Video Equipment by Craig Cowell; and Automatic Baseball Catcher by Rueben Brenner-Adams, to also be used at Lehman Alternative School.
Lehman Alternative School projects include Donating Aspergers Books by Thomas Murphy; and Nook Books for Library Nooks by Mariah Prentiss.
Boynton Middle School projects include Video Library for Earth Science and Physical Science by Pat Wyckoff; 7th Grade Life Science Video Library by Dennis Carbone; Vibrant Visuals by Victoria Benson; and Using Technology to Support Students with Disabilities by Emily Vogel, which will also be at DeWitt Middle School.
Fall Creek Elementary projects include Listening to Reading for All by Diana Lamphier; Books, Books, Books! by Annarose Foley; and Sensory Integration in the Classroom by Carrie Nolan.
Belle Sherman Elementary projects went to Chinese Paper Cutting and Legends by Sarah Locke-Mountin; and Seeing Trees in Winter by Peggy Dolan.
Single-school projects went to Play in the Kindergarten Classroom by Beth Wixson at South Hill Elementary, and Technology Integration by Caitlyn VanderMaas at Caroline Elementary.
Source : http://www.theithacajournal.com/article/20120205/NEWS01/202050341/IPEI-announces-nearly-15-000-granted-Ithaca-education?odyssey=nav|head
