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2010-2011 Virginia Beach

Education Foundation Grants

The Virginia Beach Education Foundation is awarding $100,000 in grants to support the teachers and students in Virginia Beach City Public Schools.

This funding support is the result of community collaboration with the …

2010-2011 Building Futures Grants

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First Colonial High School Audio Adventure CheMystery Director: Barbara Besal Team: Donna Draeger, Rachael Stimis, Jennifer

Kelly Amount: $4,999.70 Underwriter: The Nigel Holland Foundation Description: Students in journalism, orchestra, business marketing and theater will create a mystery about a particular crime. Chemistry students will take on the role of investigators, then present their findings in a mock trial and stand up to cross examination. John B. Dey Elementary School "Probing" for Answers: Learning on the Go! Director: Jody Carroll Team: Leah Carden, Maury Joy, Leslie Law Amount: $4,682.00 Description: Students will use technology to conduct experiments and collect data for science units in their grade levels. Vernier LabQuests (portable handheld devices) and Go! Probes will allow them to choose where they go without being tied to a computer. King's Grant Elementary School GRACE Club Director: Gloria Jefferson Team: Aisha Rucker, Sharon Miller, Mary Routten Amount: $3,214.95 Underwriter: In Memory of Joni Brackman Description: Students will meet monthly with female engineers, engage in specific hands-on engineering activities, and organize their own electronic portfolio and end-of-year presentation. They'll also give a quarterly "Engineering Moment" on the school's morning news. Ocean Lakes High School The Dolphin News Splash: the Ripple Effect Director: Amy Jo Harrell Team: Jim Cartwright, Jake Miller, Nancy Hicks Amount: $2,981.89 Description: Each week, a different team of students will create live news and information broadcasts on stories relevant to the needs of the school for the entire student body to view. These pieces will become part of each student's English Portfolio.

Ocean Lakes High School From Planting to Picking to Cooking - A Cross-Curricular Learning Experience Director: Debra Sawyer Team: Andy Bedinger, Laura Wood, Kristina

Dasher Amount: $3,400.00 Description: With the help of community volunteers, parents and teachers, 9th-12th-grade students in Technical & Career Education culinary and science classes will research, plan, plant, maintain, harvest and prepare food from their garden. Thoroughgood Elementary School Learning as We Grow Director: Krista Clark Team: Susan Ruhl, Josh Miller, Nicole Ulrich,

Michelle Jenkins Amount: $5,000.00 Underwriter: HBA Architecture & Interior Design Description: Students will research gardening aspects to design and implement their own outdoor garden "lab" where they can study their garden ecosystem, weather conditions and the impact on gardens and create sustainability through composting. Bayside Tri-Campus Triple E (Eagles Excel in Education) Director: Jeneshia Ferebee Team: Shirley Haywood, Molly Swan, Dawn

Carlucci, Sandy Stallings, Melissa Craft, Kirsten Rutkowski, Stephen Orr

Amount: $5,000.00 Underwriter: Beach Fund of the Hampton Roads

Community Foundation Description: One night per week for 10 weeks, 60 students along with their parents and siblings will participate in this school-based program designed to strengthen and support the educational needs of the students, and improve family functioning and address communication styles, mental health issues, community resources, and parent/teacher relationships.

2010-2011 School-Wide Grants

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Corporate Landing Middle School Meeting Oysters and the Watershed They Live In Director: Sherry Kelly Team: Thomas Frohlich, Stephanie Riddell Amount: $900.00 Underwriter: Beach Windows & Siding Description: Seventh-grade "scientists" will test the Owl's Creek environment for raising oysters. They will test water salinity, dissolved oxygen levels, temperature, pH, algae, etc. and share data nationally using graphics and photos for PowerPoint presentations. Green Run High School Cyber Book Club: Exploring Visions of the Future Co-Directors: Patricia Caskill and Cheryl Foster Team: Michelle Jacobs, Jane Lauter Amount: $1,000.00 Description: All students will read three to five books dealing with technology (an element of or lack of in a future world), then respond to questions posted in a blog. A culminating activity will provide face-to-face discussion on issues pertaining to the stories. Linkhorn Park Elementary School GREEN is the Color of our Grand, Relevant, Exciting, & Engaging Newsroom! Director: Hiroko Burch Amount: $550.00 Underwriter: Lifetouch Description: Teams of fifth grade students will research historical figures, write scripts, record and edit video to produce a time travel news video using green screen technology. Final projects will be shared with parents and community members.

Rosemont Forest Elementary School GIRLS: Girls Inspired to Real-Life Service Co-Directors: Barbara Imrich and Kathy Mercker Team: Robin VanNess Amount: $1,000.00 Description: The group will read and discuss several books about girls who overcome great obstacles in order to solve problems. The girls in the club will hear from successful women and will work together to transform the school's garden into a butterfly habitat. Rosemont Forest Elementary School Hook 'Em and Book 'Em Co-Directors: Barbara Imrich and Valerie Frederick Amount: $800.00 Description: This lunchtime reading club will build reading interest and enthusiasm in 20 5th grade males. After reading each book, students will explore hands-on learning activities such as conducting experiments included in the book, It's Not Magic, It's Science!

2010-2011 Replicated Grants


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Advanced Technology Center Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) "Five Minutes to Win it" Director: Ronald Garrison Amount: $999.98 Underwriter: Norfolk Kiwanis Club Description: Tenth thru twelfth-grade engineering students will learn how to design and build a functioning Remotely Operated Vehicle using physics, engineering and design principals. They'll explore concepts of air pressure, water pressure, and buoyancy related to deep ocean environments. Alanton Elementary School Virtual Problem Solving Director: Melissa Taylor Amount: $170.00 Underwriter: Cherry, Bekaert & Holland Description: Using visual representation of algebraic equations with pawns and numbered cubes as part of the Hands-On Equations program, students will also have interactive software enhance their learning of algebra in a more concrete way. Arrowhead Elementary School Second Grade Scholars and Scribes Director: Jennifer Evans Amount: $350.00 Underwriter: Cape Henry Rotary Club Description: This program will place books in the hands of students to read and discuss in lunch book clubs. Their progress will be tracked to ascertain growth and interest. The librarian will assist students in creating a blog for all 2nd graders to respond. Bayside Elementary School Garden Buddies Co-Directors: Mary Anne Decker and Catherine Malley Amount: $1,000.00 Underwriter: Military Produce Group Description: The school and community will collaborate to facilitate hands-on learning of science through a school garden project. This outdoor garden will be a laboratory where students will act as scientists to study a mini eco-system that mirrors local agriculture. Bayside Elementary School Kindling a Fire for Reading Co-Directors: Patty Waller and Pam Gaut Amount: $930.80 Description: Fifth grade reluctant readers will read books using Kindles. The ability to change text size, hold the device more comfortably than a book, access the online dictionary and to have text read aloud may inspire them to become avid readers.

Bayside Middle School Green Team Environmental Master Gardening Team Director: Michelle Keiter Amount: $1,000.00 Underwriter: Olive Garden, Lynnhaven Description: Seventy students on the school's Green Team will focus on health literacy; cultivating fresh vegetables and fruits to grow inside their greenhouse then share with staff and students while educating them on the benefits of these foods in their nutrition.

Birdneck Elementary School Dancing to Become a Star Co-Directors: Kenneth Magee, II and Rhonda Harrison Team: Deborah Olds, Regina Wilson, Jackie

Lowery and Mary Beth Brandwein Amount: $1,000.00 Underwriter: GEICO Description: Motivation, confidence-building and engaging the learner are the primary steps of this program. Students will learn rhythmic movements, multiple genres of music and work in small groups to help each other learn the steps, all while exercising.

Brandon Middle School Using Weebly Websites to Navigate the Road to Success! Co-Directors: DeTonyah Parham and Barbara Butler Amount: $339.80 Underwriter: Lifetouch Description: Eighth-grade English students will create their own digital portfolio website using Weebly. This provides a unique and tech-savvy way for students to create portfolios and showcase their work as 21st Century Learners.

College Park Elementary School The Cougar Crew: Going Green Director: Susan Jusell Team: Denise Ollison Amount: $543.41 Description: This school-wide recycling program is aimed at educating students on their global impact on the environment. There will be student-centered instructional activities, class collection competitions and a poster contest with the top nine displayed at the local library.

College Park Elementary School What If I Can Change History? Co-Directors: Susan Jusell and Angela Webb Team: Deborah Ashby, Lynn Bullock, Erin Kebort,

Jeanette Mackey, Diane Walker Amount: $1,000.00 Description: The questioning approach to understand history will challenge 5th graders to critically evaluate people and events from the past, i.e. What if we could change history? Students will travel to the Virginia Historical Society, too.


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College Park Elementary School Wii: Fighting Obesity One Step at a Time Director: Tane Sheppard Team: Teresa Wooden, Luther Woodruff, Jon

Durham Amount: $890.00 Description: Students will regularly learn new exercises, set goals and track their progress using the Wii during Physical Education. A school Wii night will take place for parents and siblings to join students, who will be encouraged to perform those activities outside of school.

W. T. Cooke Elementary School Gardens from Garbage Co-Directors: Jackie Thomas and Carol Ann Guido Team: Julie Laidlaw Amount: $1,000.00 Underwriter: Jake's Smokehouse Bar-B-Que Description: Students will transform things that were considered trash into usable objects and valuable compost to plan, grow and consume their own vegetables. One of the garden beds will be dedicated to the local homeless shelter to foster social responsibility.

Corporate Landing Elementary School Entomology Ecology and the Methuselah Generation Co-Directors: Joan Harwin and Joe Andreana Team: Elizabeth Rodriguez, Sharon Thomas,

Christina Towler, Sonyonna Brown, Lynda Kokes, and Patrick Wilsbach

Amount: $991.00 Description: Students will raise butterflies and ladybugs, observe and document their growth and release the adult insects in the school's organic garden. The migration of the Methuselah Generation of the Monarch Butterfly will be tracked on Google Earth, too.

Frank W. High Cox School Renaissance Woman's Club Co-Directors: Laura Roy and Lisa Kopacz Amount: $479.00 Description: Twenty-five girls, 10th-12th grade, can participate in this club that will provide meaningful understanding of options outside high school through discussions, guest speakers and field trips and expose them to real-world cultural offerings in the area.

Creeds Elementary School Ready…Set…Action! Director: Jennifer Haws Team: Bob Bernhard and Mary Ellen Brinkley Amount: $995.00 Underwriter: The Youth Foundation of Virginia Beach, Inc.

Description: Students will take action to increase their oral reading fluency and technology skills by videotaping their performance of short plays using scripts. Students will collaborate to critique their performance and set goals to improve reading fluency.

John B. Dey Elementary School "All Hands on Desks" for Algebra Director: Leslie Law Amount: $999.24 Underwriter: Cherry, Bekaert & Holland Description: In an effort to introduce algebraic concepts and give elementary students a more concrete foundation of a most abstract body of knowledge, Hands On Equations will be used. The program simplifies and demystifies algebra with a kinesthetic approach. John B. Dey Elementary School Building Literacy with Bookflix Director: Rebecca Rose Team: Jody Carroll, Sara Chiaverotti, Nancy

Jenkins, Susan O'Donnell, Amber Greene, Susan Hardesty

Amount: $1,000.00 Description: Students, Pre-K through 3rd grade, will access at school and home to an online Scholastic literacy program, "Bookflix," that pairs Weston Woods' video storybooks with related non-fiction eBooks. John B. Dey Elementary School iLearn using iPads Co-Directors: Jody Carroll and Lauren Collins Team: Leslie Law, Joe Arcona, Jill Speasmaker,

Kelli White Amount: $998.00 Underwriter: Electronic Systems, Inc. Description: 90 special education students will use Apple iPads to engage them in learning math, geography, science and spelling. The technology will provide them with authentic experiences, immediate feedback, visual and auditory stimulation and student-centered learning. John B. Dey Elementary School Kindling a Love of Reading! Co-Directors: Susan Hardesty and Jody Carroll Amount: $992.32 Description: Students needing assistance with reading will have Kindles, which will have an audio book version and text-to-speech options to allow students to follow along. Students will discuss the novels on a blog and they will Skype with an author. John B. Dey Elementary School Playaways - A Cool Way to Read Director: Susan Hardesty Amount: $972.33 Description: In an effort to improve reading fluency, comprehension and interest, students will use audio books of novels in class and to take home with the accompanying print version of the book. Students will be taught how to blog about their novel, too.


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Fairfield Elementary School Taking a Bite Out of History Co-Directors: Julianne Peperak and Diana Ausderau Amount: $500.00 Description: For a second year, 5th-grade students will study Civil War, including cookbooks from primary documents and online sources to create a modern version of recipes with the help of culinary arts students at the VB Technical & Career Education Center. Fairfield Elementary School GLAM - Girls Learning Achieving and Motivating Co-Directors: Carolyn Bosseler and Jennifer Mazur Team: Susan O'Connor and Rebecca Schnekser Amount: $1,000.00 Underwriter: GEICO Description: Fifth grade girls, with female staff sponsors and guest speakers, will meet every other week to establish positive relationships, social awareness, increase self-esteem and self-image in a respectful, supportive atmosphere. Fairfield Elementary School Just Trouting Along Director: Rebecca Schnekser Team: Gary Lennon, Sharil Martin, Matthew

Winnick Amount: $898.50 Underwriter: Blueridge General, Inc. Description: Students in the school will become globally aware about local conservation and learn science, math and language arts--all while raising trout, from eggs to adults, then releasing them into a freshwater stream in Virginia. First Colonial High School Creating and Implementing "The Company" Director: Janet Kreider Team: Caroline Myers, Joyce Ingledue Amount: $500.00 Description: Students in business management courses will operate in a "real business" setting--turning their classroom into the workplace where they will work with their team to produce work "modules" daily. First Colonial High School Using Kindles to Engage iReaders Co-Directors: Mary Vartabedian and Jennifer Kelly Amount: $1,000.00 Underwriter: Beach Windows & Siding Description: Members of the iRead student book club, 35 students, will be able to access more copies of the same book at less expense and eliminate the need to share books with other schools where students may use the same book for their club.

Green Run Elementary School Financial Literacy - Lessons Learned Early Director: Rebecca Atkins Team: Amy Courtwright Amount: $998.90 Description: In partnership with the Virginia Beach Schools Federal Credit Union, students will be given basic strategies, skills and knowledge to create a foundation for their evolving personal financial literacy and hopefully become savvy consumers as adults.

Green Run High School Green Run High School Leadership Workshop Co-Directors: Wendy Baylor and Ashley Karunaratne Team: Ryan O'Meara, Megan Gonzales, Chris Jones,

Stephanie Santos, Andrew Stone Amount: $1,000.00 Underwriter: Virginia Beach Rotary Club Description: Over a two-day period, 62 students will learn key skills to benefit them personally and in education. Skills such as decision making, team building, project planning, communication and leadership styles and philosophy will be incorporated.

Green Run High School Kids Feeding Kids Co-Directors: Kerri Sabo and Shawn Haskell-Henry Team: Jennifer Myers, Joann Carter, Melanie Womble

Amount: $1,000.00 Underwriter: Beach Windows & Siding Description: Marketing, grade 11 and 12, students will collaborate with local business partners to become socially responsible and fill the need for food for local elementary school students, with the goal to eradicate hunger in these youngsters.

Holland Elementary School Back Bay Mining Director: Krista McNulty Team: Micah Harris Amount: $1,000.00 Description: This hands-on mining operation will take place at the school to give students the opportunity to use real mining techniques to uncover rocks, minerals and fossils, which they then get to keep for themselves.

Holland Elementary School KEEP (Kindergartners Enjoy & Explore with Parents) Books Director: Ann Piland Team: Tara Toriano, Cindi Carter, Erica Cleghorn,

Sherrie Woodie, Chris Dozier. Amount: $1,000.00 Underwriter: GEICO Description: Kindergarten students will be given books--one per week for 24 weeks--to keep at home and practice reading independently or with an adult. Parents will attend a "Reading Night" to learn how to help their child interact with and respond to books.


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Holland Elementary School PUPs (Pre-schoolers Understand Math through Play) Director: Ann Piland Team: Chris Dozier, Sherri Woodie, Erica

Cleghorn, Cindi Carter, and Tara Troiano. Amount: $1,000.00 Description: Pre-school children and their parents will attend school PUPs nights to listen to literature, participate in song and movement activities, visit math-themed stations and leave with books and supplies to further explore at home.

Independence Middle School 100% Success Club for African American Males Part 2 Director: Clinton McNair Team: Robert Carrington, Natasha Pitt, Tracey

Larusso, Melody Lubich, Marva Edwards Amount: $1,000.00 Underwriter: GEICO Description: Part 2 will further help 50 middle-schoolers succeed as they will incorporate new areas into their Club's weekly activities; a parent support group, community services, teen mentors, character development and homework assistance.

Kellam High School Big Futures from Small Engines Co-Directors: Tim Kennedy and Ben Thomas Amount: $1,000.00 Underwriter: Thompson Consulting Engineers Description: 120 students will form small engine repair shops to test and diagnose engines that are not functioning properly to determine if they can be reconditioned or need replacing--all while using up-to-date skills, tools and resources.

Kellam High School Roundtable Online Newspaper Start Up Director: Amy Wellens Amount: $730.84 Underwriter: Beach Windows & Siding Description: Advanced journalism students in grades 10-12 will be tasked with producing an online newspaper to enhance their tech-savvy skills and writing, editing and reporting. It will include news, features, blogs, podcasts, video footage, and photo essays.

Kellam High School Science Now Co-Directors: Chris Freeman and Tina Bronk Team: Eriks Apelis Amount: $880.00 Description: AP Environmental Science, Biology and Chemistry students will create video news reports on current and future environmental stories. These stories will be broadcast to other countries whose viewers can post comments via Wikispaces.

Kemps Landing Magnet Communicating and Learning in the 21st Century, Phase Two Director: Christopher Eric Bone Amount: $935.46 Underwriter: CISCO Description: Through webinars, podcasts, blogs and wikis, 7th-grade students will routinely engage in discussions of literature, writing analysis and research with their peers, including students in other areas of Virginia, North Carolina and Spain.

Kempsville High School Investigating Life Forms Found in the Creek Co-Directors: Dr. Nancy Savenko and Laurie Ranz Team: John Kinsler Amount: $1,000.00 Underwriter: Lifetouch Description: Teams of students from biology classes will produce a video of active scientific research they'll conduct using their school creek as the lab. They'll document their work with flip cameras and edit and present their findings using Windows MovieMaker.

Kempsville Middle School 'Fill the Blue' Team Co-Directors: Judy Walden and Evelyn Sin Team: Willis Cooper Amount: $575.00 Underwriter: Virginia Beach Economic Development Description: In an effort to help students become resource conservative citizens, they will gather and disseminate information on recycling, monitor and collect recyclables daily and experiment with creative re-use measures.

Kempsville Middle School Leadership Workshop: Once Upon a Future Co-Directors: Adrian Hayes and Lisa Masisak Team: James Smith Amount: $830.00 Underwriter: Virginia Beach Economic Development Description: Student delegates, grades 6-8, will be grouped into councils during an off-campus 2-day workshop to solve two problem challenges. They'll work to create a solution and present their solution creatively to the other councils.

Landstown Elementary School Writing is Power: A Heroic Mentorship Director: Maria Arnett Team: Diane Fincher Amount: $1,000.00 Underwriter: Beach Windows & Siding Description: During this second year of the project, heroes in science will mentor students through the process of researching, designing, planting and cultivating a school garden.


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Landstown High School Clean Can Be Green Co-Directors: Kay Gramling and Nancy Dowding Team: Anthony Alfonsi, Debbie Myers, James

Barger Amount: $1,000.00 Underwriter: Virginia Beach Economic Development Description: Students in several Technical and Career Education classes will create a name and logo for a laundry product, then market it, collect recycled bottles to use for packaging, label, advertise and distribute the product. Malibu Elementary School Exploring Hidden Worlds: Becoming Scientists Director: Amy G. Prosise Furlich Team: Erin Thomas, Larry Burnsworth, Gabrielle

Hurst, Kristen Shuman Amount: $1,000.00 Description: Student "scientists" will use microscopes and apply scientific reasoning as they make observations, predictions and evaluate how their work relates to what they are studying. Malibu Elementary School Got My Back: Empowering Bystanders Director: Katie Taylor Team: Hilary Thompson, Kristen Shumate, Katie

Estill, Mark Carmack Amount: $800.00 Underwriter: GEICO Description: Fifth grade students will define the problem of bullying and determine positive alternatives that will be adopted by the school. Parents will attend a workshop with their student and teamwork and cooperation will be reinforced, esp. in Physical Education classes. Malibu Elementary School Increasing a Love of Literacy Through Technology Director: Kelly LaRue Amount: $1,000.00 Description: Teachers hope to nurture a love for reading by adding Bookflix, a computer-based program students can access at home or school to read a variety of fiction and non-fiction selections as well as review vocabulary and test their comprehension.

Malibu Elementary School Uncovering the Mystery: Telling the History Director: Kristin Peterson Team: Patricia Mills, Erin Thomas, Mary Katherine

Estill, Kristen Shuman, Hilary Thompson, Wanda Johnson, John Maher

Amount: $1,000.00 Description: Fourth and fifth graders will listen to stories of African slaves told by professional storytellers, then respond to those presentations. These students will record stories told by their own older family members, then share through writing, photos and voice recording.

North Landing Elementary School Imagineering: Science in Action Director: Rebecca Wallace Team: Linda Carpenter, Claudia Hooks Amount: $1,000.00 Description: Fourth graders will electronically design and construct theme park attractions. They'll investigate the scientific principals at work in theme park rides and determine how to apply those principals to their own designs.

Ocean Lakes High School Future Historians Get Upfront and Personal Co-Directors: Allison Graves and Fara Wiles Team: Kristi Bayer, Katie Midland Amount: $739.76 Underwriter: Virginia Beach Economic Development Description: English 9 students will use The New York Times Upfront magazine to read, analyze and critique content. They'll demonstrate their understanding of a research topic by writing a persuasive letter to a political leader associated with the issue.

Ocean Lakes High School Learning 21st Century Skills in the Real World Through a Psychological Lens Co-Directors: Andy Filipowicz and Samantha Lambert Amount: $1,000.00 Description: Students will develop a course for high school students to teach 21st Century Skills with psychological principals in the real world. The blend of psychology and real-world application will be infused with reading and discussion of Malcolm Gladwell's books.

Ocean Lakes High School PUMP IT UP! Co-Directors: Christine Thornton and Yolanda Boothe Team: Kathy Harcourt, Jennifer Ramey, Jack

Harcourt Amount: $1,000.00 Description: Students will set fitness goals to improve their physical fitness level tested early in the school year and monitor various fitness indicators including their heart rate and BMI (Body Mass Index) through the year.


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Ocean Lakes High School Radio-Active Marketing Project Co-Directors: Jim Cartwright and Reese Bowles Amount: $1,000.00 Description: Students in Health and Physical Education and Marketing classes will collaborate to create audio Public Service Announcements (PSAs) on various social issues. The project concludes with their PSAs being aired on a local radio station. Ocean Lakes High School Statistically Speaking Advertising Project Co-Directors: Jim Cartwright and Steven Spasojevich Amount: $1,000.00 Underwriter: Beach Windows & Siding Description: Statistic & Advanced Marketing students will read best-selling works to identify, analyze and evaluate the measurable statistical impact of incentives that influence consumer behavior, then give multimedia presentations of their analysis. Ocean Lakes High School Virginia Beach Global Ambassadors Project Co-Directors: Jim Cartwright and Yuriko Rollins Amount: $1,000.00 Description: AP Japanese and Advanced Marketing students will create bilingual websites to exchange information with students around the world. The project culminates with a field trip to visit foreign embassies in Washington D.C. Old Donation Center Writing Around the Year Director: Teri Davis Team: Wendy Ambrose, Trina Bliley, Sandra

Chang, Pam Knecht, Melissa Ross Amount: $969.66 Description: Second-grade students will produce a scrapbook-style writing portfolio to hallmark each unit of study and target specific writing elements over the course of the year. Pembroke Elementary School Growing a Community Garden Co-Directors: Karen Dragon and Gina Spencer Team: Cathy Jones, Jennifer Krzewinski, Kristen

Grayson, Lorraine Miller, Karen Drosinos, Judy Scarry

Amount: $350.00 Underwriter: The Youth Foundation of Virginia Beach, Inc.

Description: Students with those from the nearby middle school will continue to grow in their education while learning from their outdoor garden through soil experiments, observational and creative writing, charting and graphing and maintaining the compost bin.

Plaza Middle School 21st Century Building Blocks Director: Richard David Hall Amount: $1,000.00 Underwriter: Waller, Todd & Sadler Architects Description: This program will advance drafting skill levels for middle school students with the use of Building Blocks software. Students will partner to design a complete set of working house plans from hand-drawn sketches to a computer printed set of plans. Plaza Middle School Cultivating Curiosity in the 21st Century Victory Garden Co-Directors: Alexandra Khalaf and Cynthia Kube Amount: $880.60 Description: This interdisciplinary project will task students with researching the history of victory gardens and how the gardens can impact themselves, society and the world. They'll monitor their growth of raised bed gardens, post blogs and publish their research. Princess Anne High School Government Alive! Power, Politics, and You Director: Roderick Zano Amount: $1,000.00 Underwriter: Norfolk Kiwanis Club Description: Through this project, students will engage in learning the structure and function of government at all levels. They'll access several computer programs that provide content and real-life practice on citizenship through their interactive whiteboard. Princess Anne High School Growing Collaboration in a Greenhouse Director: Camilla Walck Team: Adrienne James Amount: $997.74 Underwriter: Norfolk Kiwanis Club Description: Students will design lessons to teach their special education classmates about plant anatomy and growth requirements during ongoing greenhouse activities. Princess Anne Middle School "Panthers Helping Seagulls Soar" Mentoring Program Co-Directors: Cathy Peterson and Ingrid Wilson Team: Tracey MacMillan, Cari Hall, Annie Johnson,

Zarmeta Boone Amount: $353.48 Description: Students will be paired with elementary school students who have demonstrated academic or social-emotional needs. The middle-school student will mentor their buddy weekly to offer support and one-to-one attention.


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Princess Anne Middle School "Project Jove": A Radio-Telescope Project for the Middle School Student Director: A. Jeffrey Goldstein Amount: $799.08 Underwriter: The Youth Foundation of Virginia Beach, Inc.

Description: Project Jove, established by NASA to help integrate Earth and Physical Sciences, Physics and Math into curricula, will be used by students to gather magnetic data about solar disturbances and from Jupiter. They will compare data with other Jove stations. Providence Elementary School Fiesta de la Familia Co-Directors: Gretchen Lerner and Christine Dalton Amount: $1,000.00 Underwriter: Cherry, Bekaert & Holland Description: Families in the school community will be invited to a night of literacy and math celebration-- a model for thoughtful discussion across the curriculum and have families participate with their child in critical thinking strategies to apply at home. Providence Elementary School Hang In the Balance Director: Melissa Knight Amount: $750.00 Description: Third thru fifth graders will use Hands-On Equations software for their Promethean Board to compliment their learning of algebraic concepts. Red Mill Elementary School Happy Helping Hands Co-Directors: Janice Hart and Susan Tobin Team: Jennifer Caton, Michele Walters, Stacie

Noffsinger, Terry Matalon Amount: $1,000.00 Underwriter: The Youth Foundation of Virginia Beach, Inc.

Description: This club will provide 40 students the opportunity to serve their community through various projects, while boosting their self-esteem and incorporating writing and technology to enhance their experience in the club. Renaissance Academy 21st Century Design and Re-Design Director: Nancy Rae Habit Team: Randy Forbes Amount: $1,000.00 Description: 150 students in Technical & Career Education classes will be given several design challenges to "re-purpose" items. As design tasks become more challenging, students will confidently analyze, research, communicate and evaluate their final project.

Renaissance Academy Do you know the Muffin Man? Co-Directors: Debbie Bolger and Elaine Lombardi Team: Jane Dearborn Amount: $700.00 Underwriter: Atlanta Bread Company Description: High school and middle school students will collaborate to sell Muffin Mix and work across disciplines to research marketing and packaging laws, make labels and packaging and explore economic principals and recycling options. Renaissance Academy Out of the World Experience Director: Darcy Parker Team: Sierran Upton Amount: $990.00 Description: Students will use inquiry skills to learn the basic principles of science, including biology, geology and physics through hands-on, live demonstrations. Renaissance Academy Sweet History Co-Directors: Elaine Lombardi and Shela Mollett Amount: $500.00 Description: Students will study regional history to learn how underserved schools overcame odds they faced and found ways to engage their students in education, i.e. one school made candy on school grounds and sold it to raise funds for their music department. Renaissance Academy The Study Block Book Club for "REAL" Life Director: Nikki Steckroth Amount: $750.00 Team: Donna Baker Underwriter: Virginia Beach Sheriff's Department Description: Members of the Virginia Beach Department of Juvenile Justice will meet with troubled teens regularly to help them engage in self-exploration, view reading as a way to open doors and continue their journey of personal growth. Rosemont Forest Elementary School Boys Energized As Readers III Co-Directors: Barbara Imrich and Linda Lotz Team: Valerie Frederick Amount: $613.76 Underwriter: Virginia Beach Education Association Description: Twenty 4th-grade boys will be given high-interest books, graphic novels, audio books and nonfiction magazines to read and discuss during lunch in an effort to increase their desire to read.


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Rosemont Forest Elementary School Information Investigators at Work Co-Directors: Barbara Imrich and Linda Lotz Amount: $976.16 Description: Thirty 3rd-graders will meet to discuss, compare and contrast monthly reading material. They will analyze the various formats they read, discuss accuracy of facts, style of presentation and possible bias and participate in an activity related to the matter. Salem Elementary School Fetch a Good Book Co-Directors: Kathy Rheinhart and Elizabeth Batty Team: Lindsey Olinda, Andrea Payne Amount: $974.30 Underwriter: Norfolk Kiwanis Club Description: To enhance literacy skills with students experiencing reading difficulties, they will read weekly for at least nine weeks to a therapy dog. Students will post online blogs for entire student body to read and discuss the books. Salem Elementary School Hands-On Exploration of a Region's Economy Director: Tara St. Clair Amount: $1,000.00 Description: Using blogs and Skype, 4th-graders will collaborate with a 4th-grade class in Pittsburg, PA to compare and understand similarities and differences between the Northeast and Southeast regions of the U.S., then visit their peers to present their project. Salem Elementary School Learning Lambs Co-Directors: Patty Simmons and Tara St. Clair Team: Nancy Martin, Andrea Payne, Theresa

Fitzpatrick, Lindsey Olinda Amount: $1,000.00 Description: The school will host several activity nights where pre-school age children and their parents will participate in activities that promote academic and social skills their child will need for a successful start in Kindergarten. Salem High School The Answer My Friend, Is Blowin' In the Wind… Director: Jeffrey Kline Amount: $783.51 Underwriter: HBA Architecture & Interior Design Description: Electronics students will work in teams to construct small scale Wind Turbines including the development and fabrication of Blades; testing, collecting and analyzing data and converting energy using a Generator.

Seatack Elementary School Down and Dirty . . . "No Child Left Inside" Director: Marie Culver Team: Kevin, Rickard, Robin Patrick, Maggie

Smith, Coleen Bowles, Deanne Donohue, Marie Gerdes

Amount: $1,000.00 Description: The school's certified National Wildlife Habitat will be enhanced, maintained and observed by students. Bird feeders, a bat house, ladybugs, butterflies and various plants will be added to the Habitat. Tallwood High School Closing the Gap: FACS Attacks the Early Literacy Crisis Co-Directors: Cynthia Chadwick and Lisa Ericson Amount: $1,000.00 Description: Monthly, high school Family & Consumer Sciences students will visit programs for at-risk children in area preschools to read and teach early literacy skills through lessons they've prepared. Thalia Elementary School Armed for Learning Co-Directors: Sandy Doyle and Nikki Smead Amount: $966.00 Underwriter: Norfolk Kiwanis Club Description: ActivWands will be used to extend students' reach so that any student--tall, short, challenged or able bodied--can fully interact with the Promethean Board. Thoroughgood Elementary School From Sea to Shining Sea Director: Susan Ruhl Amount: $900.00 Underwriter: Jane Purrington Description: Students will read two historical fiction novels about two immigrants--one from Japan and one from Mexico, then explore their own roots through family interviews and online Census and immigration records and finally, make decisions about refugees as if they were the President. Trantwood Elementary School The R's Have it! Reef Restoration, Rigor, Relevance and Relationships Director: Kathy Dungan Amount: $980.00 Underwriter: CH2M HILL Description: Fifth-grade "scientists, mathematicians and historians” will observe and care for living organisms to improve the health of the Chesapeake Bay's water quality and contribute to the restoration of the Lynnhaven River and Chesapeake Bay oyster populations.


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The mission of the Virginia Beach Public Schools Education Foundation is to raise private sector support to fund innovative and creative learning programs

for the students of Virginia Beach City Public Schools and to reward educational excellence.

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2512 George Mason Drive, Virginia Beach, Virginia 23456 Phone (757) 263-1337, fax (757) 263-1009

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