GRANT RECIPIENTS

GRANT RECIPIENTS: Avon High School

Year	Grant Type	Program Name	Director, Organization	Age Group	Subject Area(s)	Description
2009	Mini Grant	EBooks for the Twenty-First Century	Julia Cowans-Wilhelm, Librarian	Grade 9 - 12	Non-Fiction & Reference	The 222 titles Gale EBook collection will be acquired (print value $92,000) and available on-line to all students and staff at the high school. This will help close the gap in the current collection noted in the last NEASC review. Books will support the Freshman ISearch, Sophomore Civic Virtue and Senior Mastery projects required of all students.
2009	"Pavers for Posterity" Grant	Developing a "Sound" Theater Program	Doreen Cohn, Director, AHS Theater	All ages	Theater	Fund the purchase of sound equipment, including 12 wireless microphones, to enhance dramatic productions, augment technical theater instruction and complement the renovation of the stage area in the auditorium. Recurring production costs will be reduced enabling the theater program to use its proceeds from ticket sales to expand theater opportunities for students.
2009	Program	Digital Visualizers and Writing	Sharon Wendler, AHS	Grade 9 - 12	Writing	Pilot the use of digital visualizers for writing instruction. Also known as a document camera, the device can project images from bulky 3-D texts in real time or store them for later use, such as posting to a web site.
2008	Funded in part by the 2008 UNICO Grant	Avon TV and its Hub: The AHS Television Studio	Melissa Mirabello, AHS	Grade 9 - 12	Journalism	A high quality television broadcast will be achieved with individuals drawn from AHS journalism classes. Broadcasting sports events, concerts, competitions, town meetings via community the access channel will potentially effect every Avon resident.
2008	Program	Mobile Language Lab	Peter O'Sullivan & Claudine Rose, AHS	Grade 9 - 12	World Language	A mobile language lab will be equipped with video iPods at a cost of about 10% of a stationary lab. No lab currently exists.
2008	Funded in part by the 2008 UNICO Grant	It's Time to Learn...Pass the Remote	Michael Marella with Janet Loynes, Mark Burgess, Scott Percival & Scott Tinker, AHS	Grade 9 and 11	Earth Science and Chemistry	Four classrooms will be equipped with innovative technology--Technology-Enhanced Formative Assessment (TEFA) using a classroom response system (CRS)--to increase student participation and inquiry in science classes. The teacher presents a problem and students enter answers into a remote control device that communicates with the teacher's computer. Immediate feedback on learning gaps is available.
2007	Citibank Grant	Leadership for Life	Lou Pelligrino, AHS	Grade 9 -12	Life Skills	Leadership training delivered through seminars and workshops with community, business and education leaders as presenters
2007	Mini	Plant Mobile	Scott Percival & Natalie Carlone, AHS	Grade 10	Biology and Special Education	Collaboration of biology and special education to integrate students for learning including development of vocational skills
2007	Mini	LEGO^®s--Not Just for Playtime Anymore	Janet Loynes, AHS	Grade 10	Biology	LEGO^®s used to build models of DNA and LEGO^®s genes used to build fish to demonstrate how they affect characteristics of offspring
2005	Mini	A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words	Michael Marella, AHS	Grade 9 - 12	Earth Science, Multi-Media	Integrate visual images into earth science activities using digital cameras in order to identify earth science processes at work in the environment to increase motivation, comprehension and depth of analysis.
2005	Mini	VRoma	Peter O’Sullivan, AHS	Grade 9 - 12	Latin, History	Support the VRoma project to teach and learn Latin and Roman culture through workshops and presentations that engage participants in a virtual community by using internet technology.
2004	Giles Family Mini Grant	Developing Student Voices	Julia Cowans-Wilhelm, AHS	Grade 9 - 12	Writing	Interactive SMART Board enabling students to develop group writing assignments and have their voices heard in real time. This is a new method of instruction to improve critical thinking.
2004	Mini	FIRST Robotics Team	James Ligotti, AHS	Grade 9 - 12	Science, Engineering, Technology	Purchase materials to design and build reusable packaging to transport and store the team’s robot. Students participated in Atlanta’s National Robotics Competition at which their newly designed packaging equipment transformed into a mobile computer work station.