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Mattoon Foundation for Academic Excellence

2009 Teacher Grant Awards

Board Members

 Brian Hinton

President

 Pat Harrington

Treasurer

 Sherri Branson

Secretary

 Robert Miller  Mary Wetzel  Sarah Smith  Larry Lilly  Dan Jones  Beckie Wetzel (retiring)

Past Grant Recipients

 Ag program start-up materials  Astronomical Observation Site & Equipment  Student run bookstore  FASSTMATH  Epilog Laser  MHS graduate follow-up surveys  Earobics

Grants

 Our goal is to fund grants that will impact the

largest group of students possible. Most projects are usually technology related, but not required.

 Annual grant dollars usually range from $28,000

to $40,000.

 The Foundation has awarded over $460,000 to the

school district since it's inception in 1994.

This year MFAE awarded $24,373

2008 Grant Award winners

All district “Creating Art in the 21st Century-Digital Presentation cameras” Riddle/Williams “What is it- Computer Microscopes”

2008 Grant Award winners

Riddle “Vtech Nitro- Mini computers” MMS “Senteo Response systems for SmartBoards” “Wireless Tablet”

2008 Grant Award winners

MHS “Print Technology – Desktop Publishing (partial funding) “Mini Notebook for Econ & Sociology classrooms”

 The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate

"apparently ordinary" people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people. ~K. Patricia Cross

 A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring

the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold

• iron. ~Horace Mann

 The art of teaching is the art of assisting

• discovery. ~Mark Van Doren