WE GIVE!
The Current Listings below are intended to facilitate school-community connections by offering a list of opportunities and special requests.
- Post an announcement, a request or an opportunity (Note to students: If you would like to post a request, please see your guidance department.)
- View a list of grant opportunities for teachers, schools and school-business partnerships
School-Community Connections
| Date | Description | Contact |
| April 30, 2012 | Poetry Contest http://potatohill.com/ Click on the banner on the top of the page. Grade 5-8 students can enter a poetry writing contest and get their winning poem on a Cabot butter box! |
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| January 30, 2012 | NH Philharmonic's DRAWN TO THE MUSIC ... .....invites children to explore music, stories and drawing to create a unique public performance. Read the charming story. Listen to the beautiful orchestral work. Draw your own illustration in response. The result is a unique performance version of a great orchestral work. Learn more... (pdf) |
info@nhphil.org. |
| School Year | For Art and Spanish Teachers: Margaritas Education Outreach Programs are available to you and your students this year. We offer fun and educational Field Trips to Margaritas Mexican Restaurants that feature the art and flavors of Mexico for students to sample. Coming this fall from mid Oct. to mid Nov. are award winning mask makers from Michoacán, Mexico. Both Manuel and Modesto Horta have exhibited their extraordinary hand carved masks in the United States and Mexico. There are still some available dates to bring them your school. You can always come out to see them at select Margaritas restaurants too! We also offer you and your school community the opportunity to hold a Noche Mexicana Fundraiser at Margaritas Mexican Restaurants. We will donate 15% of pre-tax purchases from fundraiser participants to your school. |
Pat Picciano – Education Outreach Coordinator ppicciano@margs.com |
| Financial
Literacy Training for High School Students: 8 Independent Modules Under the sponsorship of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) Investor Education Foundation, the Center for Financial Studies at Southern New Hampshire University has developed a specialized financial literacy teaching curriculum expressly for use in teaching young adults. The curriculum series covers eight related financial literacy topics, with each curriculum module including extensive hands-on internet applications. Although the module topics are related, each module is independent of the others. These publications were made possible by a generous grant from the FINRA Investor Education Foundation. |
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| Certificates for professional advancement offered at the University of New Hampshire at Manchester. The certificate specialize in Community Leadership and Conflict Management in Organizations. More info. | If you have any questions please contact Kate Hanson at 603-862-1025 or kate.hanson(at)unh.edu. | |
| School Year | REAL is an acronym for Rural Entrepreneurship through Action Learning. It is a K-12 experiential learning curriculum that develops entrepreneurial traits, knowledge, and skills, and guides students through the process of planning, creating, and operating small businesses of their own design.
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name:
Don Kelpinski phone: (802) 281-5237 e-mail: dkelpinski@vtsbdc.org |
| School Year | SafeArt
is a non-profit offering expressive arts programming
with a focus on the prevention, intervention, and recovery from abuse.
We are able to offer much of our programming free of charge thanks
to grants and individual donations. Our programs include: * The SafeArt Teen Ensemble - A group of adolescents who perform poetry, dance, songs, and skits at high schools and events throughout Vermont. Now accepting new members. * School Residencies - Our residencies offer students the opportunity to explore issues of abuse (and other critical issues) through creative expression, education, and discussion. * Teacher Trainings - SafeArt trainings help teachers to become more trauma-informed and learn tools and activities for addressing emotional learning in the classroom. * As well as: ~ youth and women‚s groups ~ presentations to community groups, agencies and other organizations ~workshops |
name:
Tracy Penfield phone: 802.685.3138 e-mail: tpenfield@safeart.org |
| Ongoing | Contact
for an engineering association willing to help
with locating speakers, internships, job shadows etc.: |
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| School Year | Community Members: Looking for interested community members to view & comment on student blogs for the upcoming school year. Blogs will focus on various physical science content topics, technical writing, technology, problem solving, and global awareness. No science background is necessary, but good communication skills are! | name:
Martha Archambeault phone: 802-295-8620 ext118 e-mail: archambeaultm (at) hartfordschools(dot)net |
| Matching funding available to develop and implement a pre-engineering technology curriculum in the public schools so that students in grades 6 through 12 who are interested in careers in engineering, or allied engineering fields, may enroll in a high quality engineering technology curriculum. | For more information please contact Ed Taylor at (603) 271-3886 or etaylor@ed.state.nh.us. | |
| Link to grant opportunities, teacher awards and student scholarships in the areas of engineering: www.preengineering.org/news/news.html | ||
| Ongoing | Youth
work place safety curriculum.This information covers
various OSHA rights and responsibilities in an easy to use format.
While they were originally designed for high school students,
youth in middle schools particularly enjoyed the program as they
planned for future employment. You can now access the curriculum and materials on line at: http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/talkingsafety/states/nh/ |
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| Ongoing | The
Adult Learning Center offers adults free, cofidential, one-to-one
and small group instruction whenever possilbe in basic reading,
writing, math, English as a Second Language, and preparation for
the high school equivalency exam (GED). Registration is on going.
This is a non-profit, federally funded program. |
name:
Debbie Laffin phone: 603-448-0596 e-mail: dlaffin@sau88.net |
| Ongoing | Intel
Science Talent Search: Since 1942, Science Service has made
dreams come true through the Science
Talent Search (STS). Intel is the sponsor of this nationwide competition—America's
oldest and most highly regarded pre-college science contest. Eligible students include high school seniors in the United States and territories, and American students attending school abroad. Each year, over 1500 students accept the challenge of completing an entry for the Intel Science Talent Search, with finalists competing for the top prize, a $100,000 scholarship. |
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| The U.S. Department of Education is pleased to announce the newly remodeled and updated Federal Resources for Education Excellence (FREE) website. It now provides richer, more expansive resources to teachers and students alike. There are over 1500 resources to take advantage of at FREE, ranging from primary historical documents, lesson plans, science visualizations, math simulations and online challenges, paintings, photos, mapping tools, and more. This easily accessible information is provided by federal organizations and agencies such as the Library of Congress, National Archives, NEH, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian, NSF, and NASA. | ||
| Mondays | MOMENTUM
- A SKILLS BUILDING SUPPORT GROUP FOR YOUNG WOMEN Momentum is a weekly ongoing support group open to all high school girls living in the Upper Valley region. The format is a weekly discussion in a safe, supportive environment that is facilitated by professional staff members. Momentum helps at-risk girls learn how to problem solve, make wise choices, develop peer support systems, build healthy relationships, confidence and self esteem. The group meets every Monday from 5:30 to 6:30PM at DHMC's Health Education Center on Level 4 of the new East Mall Building. |
For more information, contact Linda Addante at 603-643-6603 |
| Teachers in Space The Space Frontier Foundation's teacher in Space Project exists to honor and inspire exceptional teachers and to stimulate the growth of commercial suborbital flight. |
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| Ongoing |
VOLUNTEER TUTORS NEEDED! Granite State College seeks volunteer tutors who can spend an hour once a week (or every two weeks) with our students. The subject areas of greatest need are arithmetic, logic, accounting, and computer skills. This time commitment is a guideline only, not an obligation; we appreciate just how busy our volunteers are, and any amount of time that they can contribute is of great benefit to our students. |
name:
Danielle Mulei phone: 603-448-6797 e-mail: Danielle.Mulei@granite.edu |
