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From: Wrightflight [mailto:]
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 8:28 AM
To: Joyce Hager
Subject: New Alcoa Grant
Hi Joyce:
I would like you and members of the Executive
Council to know that on Tuesday of this week, the AMA received a
check for $100,000.00. The third grant from the Alcoa Foundation.
As you know the Foundation funded an intitial
$28,000 "pilot project" to triain science teachers in Cleveland to
use the Inventing Flight curricum produced to celebrate the Wright
Brothers centennial in 2003. Based on the success of this effort,
the Foundation subsequently awarded the AMA a second grant for
$128,000 to present four more workshops - a second one in Cleveland,
one in Iowa and two in Indiana. This grant was recently extended to
permit the Education Committee to use unexpended funds to create a
DVD featuring workshop activities and lessons that the Committee
intends to offer to teachers thoughout the country on our website.
The new grant will permit us to offer three more workshops to
science teachers here in the US, and they have requested that we
offer one in Great Britain as well.
This grant brings the total support from the Alcoa
Foundation to more than a quarter of a million dollars - funds we
are successfuly using to improve and refine activities using model
airplanes as a teaching tool for middle school physical science. I
met with Foundation representatives in Pittsburgh yesterday to
confirm the details of the new grant. They may be interested in
using our activities as part of a package their employees could
leave with teachers when they visit classrooms to give career talks.
None of this could have been accomplished without
the strong support of Jack Frost, April Hathaway and Michael Smith
who have assisted us with presentations and exhibit work at National
Science Teacher Association workshops duringthe past three years.
Please see that Dave Brown and the members of the Executive Council
are aware of the significant outreach we are undertaking to promote
the sport, hobby and educational value of model aviation.
Gordon
Schimmel, Ed.D.
Chair,
Education Committee
Academy of
Model Aeronautics
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Best regards.
Dr.Sandy Frank
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2005-12-15