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 | Maine | |||
| October 22, 2004, Coventry Courier The garden of good deeds Students from Western Coventry Elementary School recently visited the Coventry Senior Center at 50 Wood Street, to plant bulbs in the newly created memorial garden in the front of the Center. Through a $1,000 service learning grant from the Maine Department of Economic and Community Development, more than 75 children from Mrs. Lavoie's, Mrs. Martinelli's and Mrs. Scanlon's Third Grade classes gathered on October 14th with shovels in hand to plant over 250 daffodils, tulips and crocuses. | ||||
| June 4, 2004, Rockingham News Middle-schoolers aim to help community NEWTON - The Sanborn Middle School is putting a grant from the Department of Education to good use by discovering the benefits of service learning for students and teachers. Service learning is a method of encouraging learning through active participation in organized community service. | ||||
| Maryland | |||
| January 19, 2005, Baltimore Sun Schools get $50,000 grant to spur civic involvement Carroll County public schools, in partnership with Volunteer Carroll, has received a Youth Ready to Respond grant from the Points of Light Foundation. This two-year, $50,000 grant is one of 10 awarded in the United States to local education agencies and their partner volunteer groups. The purpose of the grants is to encourage civic involvement by students. The Carroll County Career and Technology Center will implement the grant. Students, faculty members and staff members are designing projects intended to make their communities safer and stronger. Funding for the grant is provided by the Learn and Serve America Homeland Security Initiative. | ||||
| March, 11, 2004, Baltimore Sun AACC wins 3-year grant for service program Amy Garcia knew she wanted to use her biology degree to help the sick, but she wondered if she could handle the emotional side of health care and working with patients one-on-one. So Garcia spent more than 12 hours in the spring as a volunteer at Morningside House of Friendship Assisted Living in Hanover, helping the arts activities director. The service learning was folded into her course objectives at Anne Arundel Community College, and, as a result, she decided to become a physician's assistant. Garcia and hundreds of other students are participating in a service learning program at the community college, one of four institutions around the country that have received three-year, $15,000 grants from the American Association of Community Colleges. | ||||
| Massachusetts | |||
| August 4, 2006, Milford Daily News Rebuilding one house at a time MILLIS -- The danger of forgetting the devastation to New Orleans brought by Hurricane Katrina and the desire to help those in the region to rebuild their lives inspired Jen Ward to travel to the Bayou. Sacrificing the comforts of being home in Millis, she slept among fleas, cockroaches and poisonous spiders and labored nine hours a day, knocking down interior walls of abandoned houses in hopes of salvaging something for the owners. | ||||
| May 5, 2006, Amesbury News Putting their actions into words The year-long CiviConnection Service Learning Project ended with a mystery this week, "The Mystery of the Emerald Crown Hotel." The play written, choreographed and presented by the fourth-graders of the Amesbury Elementary School Drama Club was the culmination of the year-long CiviConnection project. | ||||
| May 5, 2006, Amesbury News Schwartz wins national scholarship Senior Tom Schwartz, chairperson of the Student Advisory Council, is the winner of a $1000 Principal's Leadership Award Scholarship sponsored by Herff Jones and the National Association of Secondary School Principals. There were 100 national winners out of over 5,000 students who applied. Principal Les Murray said that he has nominated many students in the past, but Schwartz is the first to actually win the award. As a national winner of the PLA Scholarship, Tom is now eligible for the Presidential Freedom Scholarship. This is sponsored by the Corporation for National and Community Service. | ||||
| April 7, 2005, Scituate Mariner School hosts Intergenerational Day It was a day for both the young and the old at Gates Intermediate School. Senior citizens from all over Scituate walked the halls and told tales of their past to students last Thursday during the school's first-ever Intergenerational Day. "These are the types of things you'd like to see more of," said Gates Principal Dick Blake. Former town officials, teachers, artists, athletes and war veterans graced the school with a taste of their generation, and were able to do so through a portion of a service learning grant for about $600 from the Massachusetts Department of Education. | ||||
| April 4, 2005, Daily News Tribune Students award grants WALTHAM -- A group of Waltham High School students presented checks Friday to five nonprofit organizations they selected to fund using grant money from the Massachusetts Service Alliance. The students are part of the Waltham Action Research Project, a pilot course at the high school in which six students run a philanthropy, establishing community service goals and reviewing outside grant proposals. WARP is called a "service learning" class because the students learn about community service by actively taking part. It was funded by the Massachusetts Service Alliance through a $15,000 grant administered by the Waltham Partnership for Youth. | ||||
| February 17, 2005, The Berkeley Beacon College fares well with public service In addition to questions of academics, the National Survey of Student Engagement collected information about student involvement in public and community service. NSSE compiled information over the past five years by randomly selecting 620,000 first-year students and seniors from 850 colleges and universities. They found that 37 percent of first-year students and 60 percent of all seniors did community service or volunteer work. Since 2000, the number of seniors who participated in service learning increased by seven percent. | ||||
| February 14, 2005, Daily News Tribune Budding philanthropists pushing for funds Students learning how to run a philanthropy are making a final fund-raising push before a March 1 deadline to collect $7,000 to attend a conference in Long Beach, Calif. Through a $15,000 grant from the Massachusetts Service Alliance, distributed by the Waltham Partnership for Youth, students in the Waltham Action Research Project have developed a request for proposals they plan to release today. Their project entails taking about half of their grant money, $7,000, and distributing it as they see fit to people or groups that have a plan to make Waltham a better place. | ||||
| January 14, 2005, The Cape Codder Green grants applications due today Barnstable County's Green Grant Youth Council will be accepting grant applications through Friday, January 14, at 3 p.m. from organizations interested in completing an environmental project on Cape Cod. The council, a select group of dedicated teenage philanthropists, ages 12 to 18, has $11,750 in funds to distribute. The council is funded by Barnstable County and through a grant from the Massachusetts Service Alliance through the Learn and Serve program | ||||
| June 25, 2004, Business Wire (News Service) Math and Science Camp Challenges Students NORTH ANDOVER -- Lawrence students at a special science and math camp next week will be challenged to figure out how to design and build a boat from a box of materials provided. They will then test their boat's ability to travel a specific distance in the shortest amount of time in the reflecting pond at Merrimack College. | ||||
| March 14, 2004, Boston Globe High schools turning real life into a classroom On this day, Millbury Jr./Sr. High School junior Kyle Dean turns in his English class essay to a substitute teacher of sorts, 77-year-old Rita Dobson. Dobson, a nursing home resident, peers at the finished product, a well-written, affectionate sketch of her life, and beams with approval. "He gets a star," she said. "It's a beautiful report." Dean and his classmates spent the last several weeks interviewing Dobson and other nursing home residents for a class project. They blended their academic coursework with volunteering, an approach known as service-learning and an increasingly popular trend in education. | ||||
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