2010

Mini

Community Courts for All Ages and Abilities

Marco Famiglietti, AMS

Grade 7 - 12 and Avon Community

Physical Education

This project will support community efforts to reinstate approximately 6 weeks of tennis instruction and approximately 4 weeks of paddle tennis instruction as well as games and activities in the spring and fall for all AMS students; increase the number of high school students who qualify to play Junior Varsity and Varsity team tennis by approximately 35%; enable including tennis in the Unified Sports program at AHS for special athletes and their partners of regular abilities; and expand access to recreational tennis for all Avon residents.

2009

UNICO Grant

"A is for Avon"

Jan Brennan, AMS

Grade 2, 7

and Avon community

Civic History, Writing, Editing & Publishing

Her 1979 alphabet book, A is for Avon, highlights points of historical interest in the town. It is being updated by 25 volunteer 7th graders and will continue to be used in the 2nd grade civic history unit. Copies will be available in the 5  public school libraries and the Avon Free Public Library. The Avon Historical Society will be involved in its distribution and promotion.

2007

Sponsored by Farmington Savings Bank

AEF Service Award

Doreen Cohn, Technology Integration Coordinator grade K-12

Grade 7 & 8

World Language

Pilot personal audio player technology in World Language studies

2006

Program

Research in Real Time

Kelley Lanahan & Math and Science Depts., AMS

Grade 7 & 8

Math, Science

Establish a mobile research laboratory using laptop computers with scientific probeware and graphing calculators to enhance math and science outcomes. 

(Funding also provided by the AMS PTO)

2006

Mini

Avon Summer Theater: “Disney’s Beauty and the Beast”

Thomas Kawiecki, AMS

Grade 7 & 8

Music, Theater

Costume rental to aid student actors dramatically interpret their roles which require them to imbue inanimate objects (e.g., candlestick) with human characteristics.

2005

Dos Santos Family Mini Grant

Connecting to a World of Learning Using Streaming Digital Videos

Kelley Lanahan, AMS, & Doreen Cohn, TBS

Grade 5 - 8

Multi-disciplinary

Provide teachers and students a new and powerful learning tool – real-time video through United Streaming--to change student-teacher interaction in ways that facilitate student achievement.

2005

Lounge Lizards Mini Grant

KidWind

Christopher Jones, AMS

Grade 8

Science, Ecology

Experiment with the variables affecting wind turbine electrical generators to explore current energy issues using hands-on scientific methodology. 

2004

Farmington Savings Bank Mini Grant

Salmon Egg Rearing

Christopher Jones, AMS

Grade 8

Science, Ecology

Raise salmon in the classroom for release into local waterways while teaching the fragility of the ecosystem.  Corresponds to the 8th grade Ecology Unit and offers a community benefit through environmental stewardship. 

2004

Silverman Family Mini Grant in memory of Kenneth Sargent

Digital Video Editing

Patrick Mulligan, AMS

Grade 7 & 8

Multi-Media

Create a television editing studio incorporating multi-disciplinary connections for multi media projects.