Tyler ISD Foundation

Grant Award Recipients

Spring 2008

2008 Named Grant Recipients

 

Bonnie Beall Named Grant

 

“Guidance, Counseling, College, and Careers—Info to Go!” Celia Tucker, Robert E. Lee (9th-12th grade). Through the use of video technology and photography, the Guidance and Counseling Department at Robert E. Lee will keep parents and students better informed on a more personal level by providing Departmental announcements, interviews with college admissions professionals, and interviews and advice from community members who work in various fields. ($861.47 awarded)

 

East Texas Professional Credit Union Named Grant

 

“SunEzoon Solar Cars” DeAnna Molloy, Hubbard Middle School (8th IB-MYP). Equipped only with scissors and excitement, students construct the solar cars and run them on a smooth, level surface powered only by the Sun! Students understand the motion of an object can be moved by the Sun’s hear and energy.

($1,000 awarded).

 

 

Glenna Jo Price Memorial Grant

 

“Empty Clay Bowls” Heather Gentry, Bonner Elementary School (3rd-5th grade). Students get dirty while fighting hunger as they participate in a service-learning project by making clay bowls. After completing the ceramic bowls, students donate their artistic creations to a local “Empty Bowls” auction that benefits local organizations that fight hunger. In the process of giving of themselves to help others, students experience firsthand the value of community service.

($440.00 awarded)

 

Individual Grant Recipients

 

1.        “A Firing Kiln for Birdwell Elementary Art Class” Kimberly Parks, Birdwell Elementary (Head Start-5th grade). Having a kiln will allow the student in my classroom to experience and gain a much broader perspective on the variety of art mediums and the ability to study art through projects developed in clay centered on different cultures.

($1,000.00 awarded)

2.        “Sip~Gobble~Slurp * Litter Critters at Work” Carolyn Stewart, Andy Woods Elementary (5th grade). To foster a sense of community pride and environmental awareness, 5th grade students will create and paint Litter Critters (trash receptacles) whose job it will be to sip~gobble~slurp the litter currently being dropped around the school grounds.  

($1,000 awarded)

 

3.       “Summer Learning Packs for Preschool Students” Jana McWain, Dixie Elementary (PPCD). Preschool students with developmental delays will receive a take-home learning pack that provides active educational experiences during summer vacation. The families will keep the material at home so that learning can continue throughout the 2008-2009 school year.

($1,000 awarded)

 

4.       “Take Me to Teach” Susan Cothern, Robert E. Lee High School, (10th-12th grade). Project “Take Me to Teach” provides transportation on a school bus for Ready, Set, Teach! 1 & 2 students who do not have their own means of transportation. The students work with a TISD school as a teacher’s assistant, and they can earn an educational assistant certificate. When the students graduate from High School, and pass the certification test, they can be employed in public schools as a teacher aid or further their education and become teachers.

($1,000 awarded)

 

Team Grant Recipients

 

1.       “ROBOTECH – Developing Tomorrow’s Technology Leaders Today!” Paul Eyler, Steve Phillips, Leah Huffstetter, Mary Jenkins, Jan Ace, Pedro Riscado, James S. Hogg Middle School (8th grade). They study of robotics will allow students to be engaged in design activities that challenge them to develop their own original solution for each problem presented therefore developing the “out of the box” thinking that is important for innovators and tomorrow’s leaders.

 ($5,000 awarded)

2.       “Lab Rats Phase II” Stephanie Attebery, Ila England, Ann Frazier, Kathryn Letsinger, Karen Phillips, Clarkston Elementary School (4th and 5th grade). Lab Rats Phase II is an after school science program designed to target economically disadvantaged and at-risk fourth and fifth grade students. Classroom and UT student teachers will provide exciting hands-on science lab materials in an inquiry based program making science come alive for students!

($2,500 awarded)

3.       “An Afternoon with the Stars” Amanda McClure, Dan Killian, Brian Persinger, Jerry Page, Christy Carlisle, Julie Simpson, Amy Mimms, Moore MST Middle School (8th grade). For this project eighth grade students in technology applications classes will use emerging technology to enhance the end-of-the-year school-wide fine arts award assembly. Planning storyboards, invitations, event programs, advertisement flyers, PowerPoint presentation, and MovieMaker projects will come together to provide an awards show assembly that rivals the Grammies and Oscars. ($3,246.00 awarded)

4.       “Art and Science: Hydroponics in the Classroom” Gary Broom & Michelle Voyce, James S. Hogg Middle School (7th&8th grade). Art and Science: Hydroponics in the Classroom is a great, hands on way for students to use the entire scientific process as they track the development of plants grown using the hydroponics method. Students use their artistic, written, and linguistic skills as they record and communicate the changes they observe and the beauty of growing plants ($1,134.00 awarded)

 

5.       “Journaling across America” Heather Gentry, Debbie Oliver, Kristina Salonen, Alicia Gomez, Bonner Elementary School (5th grade). Students hitch a ride on a dusty train heading westward to begin a unique learning experience that transports them back to pre-industrial America to explore the life of pioneers through hands-on experiences and journaling.

($1,373.97 awarded)

6.       “Visualizing the Electric Field” Lana Hood & Al Shirley, Robert E. Lee High School (11th &12th grade). This project allows students access to computer simulations that will replicate the electric field. In addition, students will partake in a visual laboratory experience in which they can control the factors that influence the electric field.

 ($1,600.00 awarded)

7.       “Pre-K on the Roll” Mary Ann Perez, Marcia Trifilio, Douglas Elementary School (Bilingual Pre-K). By being able to take our children on assorted field trips we will allow them to build upon their experiences by providing opportunities they may not have due to socio-economical disadvantages. Building upon their prior experiences with other children and in a large group setting with before and after discussions, sharing experiences, shared writing, and independent journal writing will help our children have the experiences needed to help promote their pre-writing and communication skills.

($500.00 awarded)