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| LEGO Children's Fund Grants Awarded:
The following organizations have recently received support from the LEGO Children’s Fund: |
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AXIS Dance Company
To support a creative, non-therapeutic, non-competitive outlet in the form of creative dance that focuses on exploration and fun for stroke survivor children ages 4 through 8.
Beaver Creek School
To fund a movie making project in their after school program where writing and producing a movie will be the focus of creative expression.
Boys & Girls Clubs of Hartford
To establish ImageMakers, a photography program that will allow youth to use their creativity and passion while learning new technological skills through this program.
Boys Club of Rockford
To support the implementation of a multi-medial Digital Arts Suite Program, serving at-risk-youth, where technology will be combined with art.
Boys & Girls Club of Truckee Meadows
To launch a robotics program in partnership with Coral Academy of Science.
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Upstate
To implement the Green Screen Project where children, through hands on experience, will create five short films combining the basic elements of writing, theatre, visual art, digital media and music.
Connecticut Association for the Gifted
To support a full day of programming where, working with scientists from the CT Science Center, students will participate in workshops. Working with artists from the Bushnell Center students will explore all forms of theater and will take part in a multi-faceted program: a workshop on slam poetry, a panel discussion and Destination Imagination which is a creative problem-solving workshop.
The Early Learning Institute
To support “TELI Creation Station” that will include creative activities to help children gain problem-solving, reading and math, gross and fine motor skills, as well as, social skills.
Friends of the Future
To fund the implementation of a robotics curriculum, using recycled items.
Gaudenzia, Inc.
To fund a new art program where workshops will inspire children to create works of art, offer hope and messages of encouragement to children as their parents work towards long-term addiction recovery.
Global Pathways Project
To support a day long exercise within their camp using a multimedia approach, that explains an international crisis, how it affects the lives of children in that country, how these children can provide support and to teach them how to better understand global interdependence and its affects.
Hartford’s Camp Courant
To develop the curriculum and lesson plans for the Build Your Brain project, a creative thinking program where children will be taught to use creativity and critical thinking to solve problems.
Lander Children’s Museum
A Launch the Discover Club where children will be provided the opportunity to gain experience in math, science and technology related areas while encouraging creativity and outside of the box thinking.
North Branch School
To support their Native Clay Project where students will re-create how functional pottery was made in the 1600s and 1700s. Children will harvest local clay, prepare the clay, shape functional items by hand, bake the dishware in a pit fire and glaze the pottery.
The River School
To establish a Students Think Green project where students will study alternative energies (wind, solar and water power) and green buildings. They will meet architects and create model towns, using recycled material; build working wind turbines, solar-powered schools, green roofs, rainwater watering tools and compost-based gardens.
Sacramento Street Preschool
To support ABC’s Alive where specialist would link the curriculum with the many languages that are spoken in their classroom, including: Spanish, German, Japanese and American Sign Language. Through integrated music, language, movement and physical fitness, the children will learn letters, words, and literacy skills.
We Tell Stories
To fund their new “Make a Splash – Read” project where they will create six different storytelling performances that will actively engage youngsters and encourage them to participate in the summer reading program.
YMCA of White Plains and Central Westchester
To support the implementation of an outdoor Nature Classroom that creates excitement and enthusiasm among students as they experience subject learning outdoors. Some of the areas of focus include: Appreciating Nature, Art/Personal Expression, Building Basic Motor Skills, Planting/Gardening Skills and Outdoor Art Program.
A Place for Kids
To support the “NYC Travel Journal” project, an inter-disciplinary project that engages elementary school immigrant students in reading and writing with hands-on art, technology and experiential activities.
Abilis
To fund “Anything’s Possible Players” where the non-disabled and those with disabilities in the theater troupe can together look beyond their differences. Five performances will be produced in which youth will perform as actors as well as musicians, create sets, and design costumes adapted to the individual needs of the performers.
BayKids
To establish “Animated Fridays”, a new movie making project, where a new portable anamation station will be created. Staff will facilitate regular animation sessions with children, enabling them to learn new ways of thinking and seeing the work, while interacting with each other pediatric patients.
Boys Club of Wake County
To support the implementation of Science Clubs with a focus on Astronomy and Rocketry. The science lab projects will be hands-on activities conducted within the lab setting where members can perform experiments and interpret the results as they work together in teams using math and scientific methods.
Center for Women and Families
Funding was approved to support educational materials for their newly developed sensory room for children who have been exposed to violence.
Charter Oak Temple Restoration Association, Inc.
To implement “Arts for All”, an umbrella term for two inclusive arts programs: Shared Ability Dance, a movement and dance class for children with disabilities; and Sharing the Spotlight, a theatre arts experience for children with and without disabilities.
Children’s Academy at Covenant, Inc.
To assist in the development of a Technology Learning Lab where funding will be used to equip and resource?? the lab with creative materials, educational materials, digital media components and other supplies. Program elements?? will include digital art, robotics, computer animation and video game design.
Children’s Museum of Eastern Oregon
To support “Simple Science”, a new weekly program where children can come to the museum and participate in a hands-on, unique science experiment with different topics and experiments each week.
Connecticut River Museum
To assist in the creation of new interactive experiences in the Museum’s Boathouse Education Center. Four exploratory stations will be installed and each will include information, activities and opportunities for children, youth groups and family visitors to discover more about the Connecticut River, its history and ecology.
First Class at EAB
Funding will be used to develop a theatrical event where toddlers and pre-school children will be responsible for creating the characters, dialogue, set and costumes for their production of the children’s story “The Rainbow Fish” which promotes the idea of looking at all people as special and unique. Volunteers from Hofstra University’s drama department will assist the children.
For Kids Only Afterschool, Inc.
To support the creation of a Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Enrichment Club for three afterschool programs.
Jefferson City Public Schools Foundation
To establish 18 creative learning centers where new, creative projects, including art, music, gross and fine motor skills will be established to foster creative thinking and problem solving.
KenCrest Centers
A matching grant was approved to support a new arts and literacy project for special needs children. The project will include dance and theater workshops culminating in their own production of children’s stories.
Progressive Arts Alliance
To support a Media Arts Summer Camp project where students will create social campaigns using visual art, video and web design to reach other students in their community. High School student mentors will lead creative teams that will present their final project at the culmination of the program.
YMCA of Greater St.Paul/Northwest Family
To establish a movie making lab where children will be involved in all steps of the film making process. Working together to decide on a particular issue, children will research the relevant issues, write the script and coordinate the production. The movie lab will travel among various locations culminating with a film festival where films will be screened and awards will be given.
Wethersfield Cooperative Nursery School
To establish a science and math based program using various interactive approaches ranging from games that teach basic number recognition to a delicate specimen viewing box. Their project will cover a great deal of scientific fundaments from gravity to plant and animal life cycles.
Apple Tree Children’s Center
To support “The Road to Success” project where children will design and build a replica of the town of
Campaign for Westchester Children’s Museum
To implement a new program for the Boys and Girls Club of Greenwhich where children will explore sustainable solar and wind technologies. Hands-on workshops will engage children in the design, construction and testing of model solar-powered cars. The workshop will be delivered by Westchester Children’s Museum staff and trained volunteers.
Central Wisconsin Children’s Museum
To establish an Art-for-All project. Through a free, twice-monthly program, a different art lesson will be featured where children and their parents will be able to create artworks and the only rule will be to use their imagination.
Children’s Theatre Center of NJ
To support “Arithmetickles” that blends onstage audience participation, comedy, mime, and theatrical effect to teach math concepts allowing children to learn how to creatively explore and resolve math problems in everyday situations.
To assist in funding “Magic in Movement”, a 14 week dance and movement class. Dance instructors and accompanist will, through feedback from teachers, learn about any child with developmental delays allowing instructors to incorporate special movement into individual and group lesson plans. A performance for family, friends and other classrooms will be presented the last day of class.
Development Centers, Inc.
To implement a weekly creative play “group” to toddlers and preschoolers. Facilitated by an Early Childhood Education professional, the program will create environments that promote social skills of young children while supporting their artistic and creative development.
Green Street Arts Center/Wesleyan University
To fund the launching of an “Afterschool Mural Project for Community Beautification”, a program that brings together a diverse group of Wesleyan students, children in the Afterschool Program, their families and other community members to create public art while generating community pride.
Jacob’s Pillow Dance
To support a residency where established choreographers will work closely with classroom teachers to teach academic content through creative movement to two underserved elementary schools.
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Imagination Stage, Inc.
To support an Audio Description pilot program for children who are vision impaired. This program will audio describe a public performance and field trip performance allowing blind or low-vision children to visual images of the plays.
Riverfront Children’s Center, Inc.
To construct a “Tree House Viewing and Play Platform” where a great variety of learning projects will be brought to the platform – science, drama and art, etc.
Science City @ Union Station Kansas City, Inc.
To support the conversion of a 1,000 square foot space in their science center into a new early childhood learning space called KinderLab where children can explore, build, imagine, read, pretend and play through safe, hands-on, interactive and unique experiences.
To support STARS Robotics, a project-based robotics club that will be implemented at six different schools.
Youth Empowerment Services Network
To implement an after-school program to engage neighborhood schools in creating a mural. A noted artist will lead the project where participants will be encouraged to bring photographs, share memories and stories of the area in an effort to create the ideas and use them for the mural.
Alexander County Partnership for Children
To support “Start with the Arts Alexander” – a visual arts, music, creative movement and drama program where, using various themes, pre-school children will be exposed to an educational arts experience that supports their growth in preparation for entering school.
Arlington Area Childcare
To provide funding for an Art & Sculpture project in which nature and the environment will become the focus for creating sculptures using flowers, rocks, leaves, cones and other natural materials.
Boys & Girls Club of Greater Waterbury
To support the implementation of Junior Journalist. Participants will develop writing and creative problem solving skills as they create a mini-magazine.
Boys & Girls Club of Hilton Head Island
To develop a Science and Imagination Club based on two main program activities: Claymation and Robo Tech.
Brooklyn Children’s Museum
To fund “Top Secret: Mission Toy” where children become toy detectives, using their investigative skills to check out toys from around the globe. Children will have the opportunity to explore the diverse world of toys, including dolls, balls, robots, puzzles and secret de-coding devices.
Camp Fire USA Central Puget Sound Council
To develop the Little Stars program that exposes children to listening skills, music, the natural environment, their community, nutrition and dramatic play.
Coalition for Kids
To implement a new photography and photographic process program where students will tell their own stories through the use of photography. The project will culminate with a public showing of the end products.
Habitat for Humanity of Greater New Bern
To establish a hands-on workshop that will develop problem solving competencies, facilitate creativity and foster self confidence through the acquisition of life time skills introduced during the constructive activities.
Hartford State Company
To support “Innovation”, a new in-school, arts integrated science program, linked to state standards in science, and providing students the opportunity to expand their creativity while learning conceptual themes that challenge different cognitive abilities.
Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California
To establish The Ingenuity Lab. With a monthly theme to provide inspiration, children will work together to design and construct projects using a combination of new and recycled material. The Ingenuity Lab, open to visitors, will provide children the opportunity to design, build and test their own constructions, based on open-ended creative challenges.
Maine Discovery Museum
To support Toys: The Inside Story and exhibit that includes hands-on stations illustrating simple common mechanisms found in toys and lets visitors create their own toy-like combinations of gears, pulleys, linkages, cams and circuits.
Mossy Oaks Elementary School
To fund programmable robots that will allow the creation of a 3-D environment that will foster the development of higher order thinking and communication skills.
Oprah Winfrey Boys & Girls Club
To support the development and implementation of a creative play program, the C-Zone, that encourages creative learning and experimentation through a multi-faceted approach combining tactile arts, performing arts and digital arts.
RJ Richey Elementary
To fund “The Discover Lab” where students will conduct research on the class lap-tops, write and create storyboards, create art, import art and photos via the scanner and digital camera, write skits and perform them in front of a green screen.
Smith Leadership Academy
To integrate the teaching of technology and engineering, using hands-on, action-based projects which will help students make real-world connections among science, technology, engineering and math and the needs of the 21st century world.
Sutton Elementary School Even Start
To support Books & Blankets Project, a project where students will create educational cloth books that teach specific skills such as zipping, buttoning and tying clothes as well as counting, colors, alphabet, shapes, textures, animal books or autobiographical books.
The Bridge Family Center, Inc.
To fund “Family Academy” where workshops for participants will include crafts, homemade books, cooking projects, hands-on science exploration, geometric puzzles, active games and storytelling projects.
Wisconsin Children’s Center
In conjunction with the Madison Metropolitan School District, small pieces of artwork on recycled bottle caps will be created. A mosaic artist will then integrate the bottle cap artwork into larger mosaics throughout the museum, representing Madison’s community of children.
Wonder Works
To support “Young Performers Day”, a new workshop for young children where participants will learn to express themselves through the performing arts where a stage with different backdrops, a pretend camera, a control panel for lighting, curtains, make-up and a myriad of dress-up clothes will be featured.
Second Quarter, 2009
Chandler Center for the Arts
To support an “Arts Bus” by converting its interior into an art studio, reading room and a pocket theater and taking it year round to sites in towns throughout Central Vermont.
Bentonville Child Care and Development Center
To provide three new outside learning centers to their preschool playground where children will be exposed to fine arts, science and dramatic play.
Children’s Aid Home Programs of Somerset
To support the implementation of a hands-on project providing children, placed in foster care or awaiting adoption, a kit of materials to support creative development, problem solving, self expression, and age appropriate skills.
Evergreen Park Public Library Foundation
To establish the “Be Creative @ Your Library” project where children will participate, through crafts and other activities in a free, community-wide creative program offering incentives and recognition to encourage summer reading.
Family Center’s Imagine Nation Museum
To fund a science and arts after-school enrichment program at twelve Boys & Girls Club Centers designed to foster creativity, cultivate curiosity and engage children in open-ended exploration and play.
Hospital for Special Care, Inc.
To create the Fine Motor & Creative Play portion of the Garden of Hope Child Development Program that will provide the children with creative opportunities that will enhance their social, emotion, cognitive and physical development.
Junior Achievement
To implement a week-long camp designed to engage participating youth in activities that will demonstrate the diverse, high skill careers that exist in the manufacturing industry and highlight the skills and education necessary to enter those careers.
Lancaster Recreation Commission
To support a project that will take place at the Bright Side Summer Day Camp that will provide children in grades K – 4 the opportunity to learn about and create visual art work from various cultures and provide children in grades 5 – 8 to learn about and create projects from various career fields of the arts.
KidsQuest Children’s Museum
To establish an after-school science and technology program aimed at providing an interactive and creative outlet program, offering students chance to learn computer programming skills while focusing on artistic expression.
Maryland Science Center
To support the Imagination & Creation Exploration program where children will be introduced to scientific concepts and then presented with challenges relating to those concepts and encourage to come up with various solutions.
Office of Children, Youth and Learning
To establish a science and technology course concentrating on robotics where children will learn basic engineering concepts, teamwork, creative thinking, research skills and sportsmanship.
Position of Pressure nfp
To support the Creative Education Theater project where history will be taught in a creative manon through activities such as: history review and interpretation, stage building, graphic design, script writing and acting, culminating with the performing of their production.
Robotics & Beyond Inc.
To fund an additional week of their science and engineering summer camp with a new program targeted specifically to girls.
WizKidz Science & Technology Centers, Inc.
To fund 2 Dream Flyer Flight simulators for the Jr. Aerospace Camp program.
First Quarter, 2009
Amario’s Art Academy for the Gifted and Talented
To support a new, student-led, mural arts program.
B’nai B’rith Camp
To implement Project FIT, a creative value-based program that promotes positive youth development, growth and leadership.
Caring People Alliance at R.W. Brown Community
To support “myLab myLife”, a digital arts program that will strengthen youth development by cultivating creativity, problem-solving skills, and innovative thinking through multi-media projects.
Chicago Children’s Museum
To establish a new quilt making workshop as a form of art.
Focus: HOPE
To support a new photography project, allowing children to explore their lives, their neighborhood and their creativity through the use of digital photography and other visual arts.
Friends School Haverford
To fund a new integrated Science, Technology and Engineering Robotics project.
Horizon Activities Center
To support a new Robotics Club in their after school program that promotes creativity in children through science, technology, engineering and math.
Lee Youth Association
To implement a new program for early childhood years, teaching children the beauty of other people’s cultures through dance.
Nathan Hale Elementary School
To fund “Murals with a Message” where students will collaborate, plan, inspire and create murals with a meaningful message for their school and community.
The River School
To support the implementation of a laboratory at their school that will accommodate and foster efforts to protect the Potomac watershed through hands-on science.
RSHM Life Center, Inc.
To establish a creativity club within their after school program where children will learn about and create sculptures and elementary level robots to explore both artistic and mechanical abilities.
Taos Pueblo Day School
To support two new programs aimed at enhancing the technological components of their out-of-school time: a model car project and a rocketry project.
Summit County Educational Service Center
To fund a new creative learning program where, through the use of wireless webcam technology, digital cameras, and shared experience boxes, children from five different preschool programs across Northeast Ohio will come together for peer-to-peer interaction.
Teachers & Writers Collaborative
To support a new community arts project called “A Poem as Big as the City”, that will cultivate the creativity of young people in New York City while engaging them in reading and writing activities led by professional writers.
Town of Enfield Family Resource Center
To support a new play and educational program where children will explore their world through music, movement, art, and various other creative activities.