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 | Michigan | |||
| May 24, 2005, Daily Globe (Ironwood, MI) Projects put school on map MERCER, Wis. -- Innovative new and ongoing projects are putting Mercer School on the map, teachers told the school board Monday night. Students and teachers recapped four projects for the board -- the Paw Shop, fisher research, Rube Goldberg inventions and forensics accomplishments. | ||||
| March 30, 2005, The Western Herald Senior engineering majors design transit cart Sparks are flying, machines are cranking and minds are racing at Western Michigan University's Parkview Campus as senior engineering students work to finish their final design projects. Projects include laboratory developments, corporate-sponsored work and community service learning. Betsy Aller, chairwoman of the industrial and manufacturing engineering session, said one design project sticks out in her mind because it's a service-learning project involving the local community. The team is working on redeveloping a transit cart for Goodwill Industries to make it ergonomically safer and more efficient for company workers. Edmund Tsang is the faculty adviser for the project, which is sponsored by a Learn and Serve America Grant. | ||||
| March 18, 2005, Central Michigan Life Grant to help combat gender gap Robb Roesch is living proof that doing good for the community will always pay off. The Adrian senior has been honored with the Community Action Network Fellowship Grant. Nominated by the Michigan Campus Compact, the grant of $2,000 is for Roesch's work on "No Man Left Behind." "No Man Left Behind" will strive to decrease the gender gap in volunteer activities. According to the 2003 Campus Compact Annual Survey, 35 percent of the college students participating in service activities were male, compared to 65 percent female. | ||||
| February 10, 2005, The Grand Rapids Press Vet's home visit cheering, educational Nine-year-old Fred Fyan did not know women were involved in the wareffort during World War II -- until he met Esther Warber. Warber, 86,was an aviation machinist who worked near Detroit during WWII. She also traveled the country as part of the Women's Auxiliary, working a lathe and milling machine in Oklahoma and loading planes with supplies in Hawaii. Warber shared her experiences with Fred last week over ice cream sundaes, when 44 students from Lowell's Cherry Creek Elementary visited residents of the Grand Rapids Home for Veterans. | ||||
| October 14, 2004, The Grand Rapids Press Service learning projects kick off 2nd year LOWELL -- Lowell school district staff are preparing to kick off a second year of service learning projects. "(Service learning) is the true culmination of knowledge, skills and character," said Carla Stone, the district's school-to-career and academic service learning coordinator. Teachers have until Nov. 3 to submit applications to Stone for grants of $50 to $400 for projects. | ||||
| August 18, 2004, Detroit Free Press Michigan students must volunteer to win Merit Awards LANSING -- Forty hours of volunteer work will be required to win the state's Merit Award scholarship starting with the class of 2006. The mandate was adopted this week by the Michigan Merit Award Board. Gov. Jennifer Granholm called for the requirement during her State of the State address in January. Many school districts already have community service programs for their students. The rest will be asked to create guidelines on what constitutes service and how to track whether a student has met the requirements. | ||||
| July 12, 2004, Booth Newspapers Schools hope to instill philanthropy At a time when schools are under growing pressure to improve math and reading scores, a West Michigan organization wants to make sure kids don't forget another basic -- how to share. Billed as the world's first philanthropy curriculum for K-12 students, Learning to Give is about to go mainstream. | ||||
| March 9, 2004, Jackson Citizen Patriot A stitch in time Twenty-five newborns will get a warm and fuzzy start to life along with inspiration to be future readers, thanks to a third-grade class at Hanover-Horton Elementary School. Patt Taylor's students are making receiving blankets by stitching finishing edges onto colorful pieces of fleece fabric, designed with teddy bears, Sesame Street characters and other baby motifs. | ||||
| Minnesota | |||
| January 9, 2004, The Pilot-Independent Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig School receives Learn and Serve America grant The Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig School was recently awarded a Learn and Serve America grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service.... The Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig School will be working in the 11 communities of the Leech Lake Reservation. Programs will explore local area history and strengthen the Ojibwe language, while providing service to the community. | ||||
| Mississippi | |||
| February 17, 2005, Selma-Times Journal Morgan senior wins President award At first glance, Susanne Wilkerson seems like an average teenager. There is a quiet determination, however, hidden behind her shy smile. "I have been doing volunteer work at the church since I was in the fourth grade," said Wilkerson. She has not stopped volunteering since. The Morgan Academy senior received the President's Volunteer Service Award for her considerable volunteer efforts. The President's Volunteer Service Award provides recognition to Americans of all ages who volunteer significant amounts of their time to serve their communities and their country. | ||||
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