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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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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.
Jr. Achievement of
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.
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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.
Forth Quarter, 2008
Austin Children’s Museum
To support MakerKids, a hands-on, creative learning exhibit based in science, art, crafts and engineering.
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To implement a Creative Yearbook Project where children, working with volunteers and mentors, will design a year book utilizing computers and incorporating digital photography, writing, drawing and graphic design.
Boys & Girls Clubs of
Capital Area Community Services, Inc.
To establish a “Curiosity Club” where children and parents will participate in a variety of creative activities. Activity stations will be set up in classrooms with activity instructions written out on a “club card”. Club cards will also be bound together and become a resource book for the family.
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The Club for Boys
To support a new project where professional artists would give boys the opportunity to be exposed to different forms of art, learn the proper use of tools and techniques and allow each participant to create his own masterpiece.
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Lehigh Valley Child Care, Inc.
To match a PCA grant funding an artist residency serving primarily disadvantaged children.
Maple Street YMCA
To fund a new creative, hands-on learning science program in their summer day camp program.
OCPS/Citrus Elementary School
To support a project introducing animation to students where they will learn the history and development of animation. They will then participate in various jobs necessary to create animated films and will ultimately present their finished product.
Pocono Family YMCA
To fund a new science club where children will do hands-on science projects working with lasers, sound, chemical reactions, optical illusions and rocketry.
To assist in funding their first annual cultural festival focusing on Mexican culture. Children will learn the history of
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Western Egyptian Economic
To fund the construction of “Wonder Walls” on their existing playground fences at
4 Head Start centers. Each fence will have a different theme, such as rainbow, music and construction.
To support a “Walk of Art” project where children will participate in art activities such as drawing, painting, sculpting, sketching, digital photography and woodworking. The art pieces will then be displayed along the streets of town where the community could walk through and enjoy.
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Youth Advocate Services
To develop a therapeutic art “life book” group for children who have been removed from their homes. Each child will create his or her own “life book” and it will include pictures, past and present, as well as other particular meaningful items.
Third Quarter, 2008
Brooklyn Children's Museum
To establish an Art Studio section, a multi-sensory activity area, for children under age five
Cardinal Cushing Centers
To implement a program called CLIMB that will creatively encourage children, who are cognitively impaired, to become more challenged and physically active
Children’s Law Center
To support a pilot program where children will learn creative ways to cope with issues precipitated by divorce, separation or loss
Children’s Museum of Science and Technology
To establish a Girls in Science and Technology Robotics and Engineering Camp within their day camp program
Discovery Museum
To provide funding for their “Science at the Center” program that will bring science and technology enrichment to children through local neighborhood community centers
Family Service Society, Inc.
To fund a new, creativity-inspiring educational program entitled “Inspiring Creativity through Science” for its Big Brother, Big Sister’s Program.
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Greater Manchester Family YMCA
To support their Artist in Residence/Creative Movement after school program that will concentrate on dance/creative movement, working with children in the YOU (Youth Opportunities Unlimited) Program
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Hartford Stage 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
NY Foundling Hospital
To fund a pilot program where the hospital will collaborate with NYU’s Information Technology Program to use adaptive technology to create accessible photography equipment for children with multiple disabilities.
reDiscover Center
To support a reDiscover It Day program where their center will be turned in an artist’s studio that will invite children of all ages to explore clean, discarded materials as tools for creativity
Sea Research Foundation
To implement an early childhood lecture series on baby sign language where sign language will encourage hearing impaired children to interact naturally in a playful and engaging way
Southwest Training Services
To support two interactive summer camps in 2009 for disadvantaged youths to introduce students to career opportunities and the latest technologies used in the building and construction industry
Tincan
To fund Tincan Game Academy where students will be taught to create video games that address serious issues such as the environment
U.S.D. #261 Parents as Teachers
To support a weekly “Explorer Lab” start-up program where creativity and self-exploration in the arts and sciences will be explored by children through “hands-on” activities
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Village for Families and Children
To assist in the establishment of the Academy for Successful Families at the Village, an integrated early childhood and family service model grounded in existing Village programs.
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