Project: Geocaching
Recipient: Bruce Sherbeck
School: White Pine Middle School
Amount: $425
Note: This will purchase a GPS device for use with students doing a Geocaching hide and seek.
Project: Phonemic Awareness
Recipients: Celeste Gerard, Chantel Mozden, Debbie Myczkowiak,k Kim Papst and Julie Vondette
School: Speech/Language Pathologists
Amount: $500
Note: These funds will purchase additional phonemic awareness training materials to facilitate Phonemic Awareness in the classroom and enhance the role ofspeech/language pathologists.
Project: Destination Imagination
Recipient: Jane Robinson
School: Hemmeter
Amount: $320
Note: This will cover team expenses.
Project: "Cool Tools"
Recipients: Colleen Carty, Cathi Kerns, Linda Perry, and Chris Tiderington
School: Elementary Schools and White Pine
Amount: $500
Note: To train elementary and middle school teachers in the "Cool Tools" regarding bullying situations.
Project: Math & Science Bags
Recipients: Kathryn Kennelly and Jennifer Moeller
School: Plainfield
Amount: $500
Project:Dig It!
Recipient: Betty Mayer
School: White Pine Middle School
Amount: $500
Note: This will help purchase costumes, props and set materials for the 7th grade choir and art student performance of "Dig It!", a musical.
Project: My Home Town
Recipients: Amy Huebsch, Barbara Huston, and Ruth Jakes
School: Arrowwood
Amount: $500
Note: This 3rd grade study of Saginaw will purchase disposable cameras and compile a scrapbook of "My Home Town: Saginaw."
Project: Award Winning Yearbook
Recipient: Karla Hall
School: White Pine Middle School
Amount: $500
Note: This will purchase Photoshope Elements software and In-Design software to use in developing a WPMS yearbook.
Project: Franklin Talking Dictionaries
Recipient: Noelle Palasty
School: Plainfield
Amount: $500
Note: This grant will purchase eight Franklin Children's Talking dictionaries with headphones for Special Education students.
Project: Touch Screen Monitor
Recipient: Colleen Thomas
School: Arrowwood
Amount: $500
Note: This grant will purchase a touch screen computer monitor for the classroom of ASD students.
Project: Project Feelings
Recipient: Michelle Bell
School: Plainfield
Amount: $500
Note: This will help purchase books, materials and presentations for the Project Feelings program.
Project: C.U.D.D.L.E.
Recipients: Nancy Blodget, Laura Hagen and Theresa Hausbeck
School: White Pine Middle School
Amount: $435
Note: This grant will help purchase materials for the C.U.D.D.L.E. program - Children Unified Despite Diverse Learning Environments.
Project: Destination Imagination
Recipient: Paula Smeltzer
School: White Pine Middle School
Amount: $320
Note: This will help purchase supplies for the Destination Imagination program.