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Paint Branch High School Educational Foundation Awards Grants Totaling $2500.00 Benefitting Paint Branch Staff and Students
The Board of Directors of the Paint Branch High School Educational Foundation is pleased to announce the awarding of five mini-grants to Paint Branch High School staff.
The four winning mini-grants will benefit a variety of programs and classes at the school:
1. Grant: Fitness Class Steps, Step Cart, Hand Weights and More! – Michelle Chestnut, Total Fitness Physical Education Teacher
This is the second year of a Total Fitness class. New ideas and workouts are in the plans for this year to get all of our PB students active and moving! Due to its popularity, there has been a larger than expected enrollment. Because of the increased enrollment, more equipment is needed for the students. This $500.00 grant provides more steps with risers, hand weights, a weight rack and resistance bands.
2. Grant: Music Festival Competition Trip to Myrtle Beach, SC – Christine Mitchell, Choral Teacher
This $500.00 grant will be used to offer financial aid to gifted music students to have the opportunity to participate in this advanced musical opportunity. These students would not otherwise be able to attend the competition due to cost. The cost of this trip is $610.00 per student. The grant will also be used to supplement the costs associated with the All State Chorus should a student qualify for this group. The cost to students who qualify is $400.00.
3. Grant: Teaching Photography – Joanna Yoder, Photography Teacher
This $500.00 grant allows the photography class to purchase five new 35 mm SLR cameras for the students to use while learning black and white photography. There is a growing student interest in studying black and white photography using traditional cameras and the darkroom. In order to maximize student learning, more cameras are needed.
4. Grant: I Loved that Book! – Arjunia Oakley, Reading/Language Arts Teacher
The $500.00 grant will be used to purchase high interest books for a new mini-library for students in the Academic Reading program. These new books will be added to the classroom library and part of the grant money will also be used to replace worn out, beloved current books. Students in this Academic Reading program struggle with their reading and the challenge of the teacher and program is to ignite or reignite their passion for reading. These books will provide reading across content areas and literature that is interesting to students and that they can relate to their lives and their community.
5. Grant: Chefs on the Move – Sandy Levine, Culinary Arts, International Cultures and Cuisines and Food Trends and Technology Teacher
Students will travel by school bus to the Marriot Corporate headquarters in Bethesda where they will meet Chef Kathleen Wellington. Chef Wellington will provide a three-part tour including a visit to the Marriott Hotel Kitchen and an opportunity to interact with the chef. Students will also tour the Test Kitchen for Marriott International, where recipes are developed, critiqued and refined. In the Test Kitchen, new menu items, which will be served at Marriott restaurants worldwide, are created. Finally, students will have the opportunity to tour Marriott Headquarters and get a sampling of the diverse employment opportunities in the hotel headquarters. The field trip will culminate with lunch in the cafeteria at Marriott Headquarters, provided by Marriott. The $500.00 grant will provide for the bus transportation and a substitute teacher.
Apply NOW for a 2011-2012 Mini Grant!
Mini-grants support Paint Branch staff in activities for their students that could not otherwise be supported financially through the regular budget.Projects need to be completed by the end of the school year 2011-12. The deadline for submitting the application is Thursday, October 20, 2011. All applications must be submitted electronically to Patti Twigg: email address Lptwigg AT verizon DOT net. The Foundation is especially interested in grant applications from staff who have never applied for a grant. Questions? Contact Patti via email.
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Paint Branch
High School Educational Foundation
Awards Grants Totaling Close to $2000.00
Benefitting Paint Branch Staff and Students
The Board of Directors of the Paint Branch High School Educational Foundation is pleased to announce the awarding of five mini-grants to Paint Branch High School staff for the 2010-2011 school year..
The four winning mini-grants will benefit a variety of programs and classes at the school:
1. Grant: Body Bars for Total Fitness Class – Michelle Chestnut, Total Fitness Physical Education Teacher
This is the first year of a Total Fitness class. Due to its popularity, there has been a larger than expected enrollment. Because of the increased enrollment, more equipment is needed for the students. This $500.00 grant provides body bars with various weights so students can have their own during class time. Fitness Bar Charts and a DVD for classroom use will also be purchased with the grant funds.
2. Grant: French Exchange Trip to France – Barbara Whitney, French Teacher
Students from France visited Paint Branch this past fall, and this is the return part of the exchange. Paint Branch French students will travel to France, visit Paris for three days, and travel to Besançon where they will stay with local families, go to school, and go on field trips. This grant of $500.00 will help defray the costs of the trip, to make sure students who want to go are able attend.
3. Grant: Outdoor Pit Firing –Alice Norris, Ceramics Teacher
This grant allows ceramics students an opportunity to experience a traditional firing technique (Raku) which will result in a more inclusive understanding of the range of effects one may achieve with ceramics. The equipment purchased with this $395.00 grant, allows students to compare the effects of outdoor firing on clays as opposed to more modern electric kiln firings. They will experience a firing technique that has been in use for thousands of years. They would not have this opportunity without this grant.
4. Grant: Floraganza – Karen Sondak, Horticulture and Environmental Science Teacher
The $380.00 grant will partially fund a field trip for the Horticulture and Environmental Science students to visit the Philadelphia International Flower Show held the first week of March. Students will be able to witness, first-hand, the world’s largest indoor flower show and view the larger-than-life displays in a unique setting. By travelling to the flower show, we hope to engage students in the beauty of the natural world and perhaps ignite a lifelong passion for the world’s precious plant life. Students will have the opportunity to further their understanding of the horticultural industry, listing to lecture and presentations offered at the flower show.
5. Grant: Culinary Creations – Sandy Levine, Culinary Arts, International Cultures and Cuisines and Food Trends Technology Teacher
One of the most important aspects of the International Cultures and Cuisines and Food Trends and Technology class is the opportunity for our students to have hands-on experiences which will broaden the students’ skill base and encourage their creativity. This $180.00 grant provides for six Cuisinart Classic Round Waffle Makers for the students, thus maximizing the opportunity for students to have successful cooking experiences in the six kitchen labs.
The Paint Branch High School Educational Foundation, Inc. was founded in 2007 and has been raising funds to make the awarding of mini-grants and college scholarships possible. These five grants are the third year of educational grants for students and teachers in classroom use. This spring, the Paint Branch Educational Foundation will award college scholarships to graduating seniors. For more information, please visit their website at http://www.pbhsfoundation.net/
Paint Branch
High School Educational Foundation
Awards Grants to Paint Branch Students and Staff
The Board of Directors of the Paint Branch High School Educational Foundation is pleased to announce the awarding of four mini-grants to Paint Branch High School staff totalling $1750.00. Applications were solicited and reviewed by the Board of Directors, and the money awarded in January 2010.
The four winning mini-grants will benefit a variety of programs and classes at the school:
1. Grant: Cooking FUNdamentals – Sandy Levine, Food Trends Teacher
One of the most important aspects of our Food Trends and Technology class is the opportunity for our students to have hands-on experiences cooking in our lab kitchens. This $500.00 grant provides five complete sets of new cookware for the students maximizing the opportunity for students to have successful cooking experiences in our lab kitchens. This is the second year Ms. Levine and her students have been awarded a grant.
2. Grant: Jazz Singers Trip to Disney World, Orlando, Florida - Christine Mitchell, Choral Music Teacher / Jazz Singers Director
Every year, Paint Branch students are invited to travel to Disney World in Orlando, Florida to perform and compete. This year, a number of students needed finnancial support to attend. A grant of $350.00 was awarded to students who could not fully pay the amount and enabled the students to attend the competition.
3. Grant: Let's Dance! – Amber Perkins, Dance Teacher
Dance is a growing program here at Paint Branch. Due to the growth, we are in need of more equipment. Unfortunately, with the economy and budget cuts, we do not have money to purchase the equipment we need to conduct the class. We need another set of free standing ballet dance bars to accommodate the number of students enrolled in the class. A grant of $500.00 was awarded to purchase the dance bars.
4. Grant: Brookside Gardens in the Spring – Karen Sondak, Environmental Science Teacher
The $400.00 grant will partially fund a field trip for the Horticulture and Environmental Science students to visit the Brookside Garden. The focus of this trip will be the flora and soil to support the garden. Referred to as the soil food web, this interconnected environment directly influences root growth, nutrient absorption, and overall plant health. Student will discuss how to build soil food webs, why they work to make plants healthy, and what they mean for us, the gardener and the food we pull from the earth
WE NEED YOUR HELP! There were many more grant applications, than we were able to fund. Please consider giving, if you would like to have us continue these grants. Either pay through PayPal below or print out the brochure and mail in a check. If your reunion class would like to make a contribution or donation, please contact our President. THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR HELP AND SUPPORT!
Paint Branch
High School Educational Foundation
Awards Grants to Paint Branch Students and Staff
The Board of Directors of the Paint Branch High School Educational Foundation is pleased to announce the awarding of four mini-grants to Paint Branch High School staff. Applications were solicited and reviewed by the Board of Directors, and the money awarded in December 2008 and January 2009.
The four winning mini-grants will benefit a variety of programs and classes at the school:
1. Grant: Cooking FUNdamentals – Sandy Levine, Food Trends Teacher
One of the most important aspects of our Food Trends and Technology class is the opportunity for our students to have hands-on experiences cooking in our lab kitchens. This $500.00 grant provides five complete sets of new cookware for the students maximizing the opportunity for students to have successful cooking experiences in our lab kitchens.
2. Grant: French Exchange Trip to France - Claire Schwartz-Menyuk, French Teacher
Students from France visited Paint Branch this past fall, and this is the return part of the exchange. Paint Branch French students will travel to France, visit Paris for three days, and travel to Besançon where they will stay with families, go to school, and go on field trips. This grant of $500.00 will help defray the costs of the trip, to make sure students who want to go are able attend.
3. Grant: Supplement book budget for Pleasure Reading Club – Julie Dean, English Teacher
The Our Pleasure Reading Book Club sprang up as a grassroots organization of twenty students in November 2008. Students recruited twenty members, created an email group list, organized meetings and solicited advice from club members on which books the group wants to read. The $300.00 grant supplies the books for the students to read. The books will be archived by the school so that they will be the beginning of the reading club library so future students could enjoy the camaraderie and love of reading with like minded students and teachers.
4. Grant: Arts and Science in the Nations Garden – Karen Sondak, Environmental Science Teacher
The $500.00 grant will partially fund a field trip for the Horticulture and Environmental Science students to visit the National Botanic Garden. The focus of this trip will be scientific illustration. A volunteer professional scientific illustrator will accompany the students.
WE NEED YOUR HELP! If you would like to have us continue these grants, please contribute to the Educational Foundation. Either pay through PayPal below or print out the brochure and mail in a check. If your reunion class would like to make a contribution or donation, please contact our President. THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR HELP AND SUPPORT!