Eighteen Ocean City educators shared $13,968.30 in grant money awarded by the Ocean City Education Foundation on Friday morning.
The Ocean City Education Foundation awarded $13,968.30 in grants to Ocean City educators on Friday morning.
The awards will finance an array of special purchases — from the high-tech (stations at the Ocean City High School library for "augmented reality books" that come to life with 3-D imagery and links to relevant multimedia) to the low-tech (supplies for the Ocean City Primary School Knitting Club ... whose advisor, Dolores Vivarelli, says that even though "it wouldn't have gone over real well" many years ago, the club has quite a few boys who maintain their street cred as they knit on the playground).
The Education Foundation is a nonprofit community organization that raises money to enhance educational opportunities throughout Ocean City.
Chairperson Dave Allegretto called the grant awards "the highlight of the year" for the OCEF. The group has awarded more than $100,000 in the past six years.
The OCEF received more than 100 grant applications and made its award decisions based on helping "the widest group of students possible," according to Allegretto.
Award winner are as follows.
[table caption="District Grant Winners" width="450" colwidth="35|65" colalign="left|left"]
Winner,Grant
Deborah Huber (Occupational Therapist) and Kristina Bonstead (Physical Therapist), $137.92 for a jogging trampoline and stabilizer bar
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[table caption="High School Grant Winners" width="450" colwidth="35|65" colalign="left|left"]
Winner,Grant
Heather Cox (Art Teacher), $1749.95 for Wacom drawing tablets
Mary Greenfield (Spanish Teacher), $449 for a document camera
James Conroy (Special Ed Teacher), $1000 for supplies for sustainable garden
Rosemary Millar and Jill Geller (Nurse and Nurse's Aide), $709 for the purchase of a TV monitor
Joseph LaTorre (Health and PE Teacher), $599 for purchase of FitnessGram
Joan Vicari (Librarian), $1537 for iPad Air - Stands - and Reality Books
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[table caption="Intermediate School Grant Winners" width="450" colwidth="35|65" colalign="left|left"]
Winner,Grant
Jesse Parker (Health and PE Teacher), $501 for Raider Fit T-Shirts
Leigh Ann Lubas (Consumer Sciences Teacher), $1550.43 for an FM System
Andrew Benfer (4th Grade Teacher), $1550.43 for an FM System
Sonja Parker (8th Grade Language Arts Teacher), $182.59 for the enrichment curriculum "Bullying Hurts"
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[table caption="Primary School Grant Winners" width="450" colwidth="35|65" colalign="left|left"]
Winner,Grant
Kathleen Yates (Speech Teacher), $1029.75 for document camera and flat-screen TV
Paola Neff (Spanish Teacher), $800 toward the Cultural Food/Music Celebration
Britney Biederman (1st Grade Teacher), $1396.25 for Bluetooth iPad keyboards
Cathleen Smith (Principal), $635.98 for games and supplies for recess activities
Dolores Vivarelli (Preschool Teacher), $140 for Knitting Club supplies
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