By Jeff Remington | Project Leader
Dear Friends,
Your support has enabled so much good to come about in our schools in Haiti! As we celebrate our 5th anniversary on GlobalGiving this month and look back over our previous 25 project reports, we celebrate the accomplishments your support has helped bring about.
In the fall of this current school year, Jenn Eason from GlobalGiving conducted a site visit to our facilities in St. Marc. Jenn had a wonderful visit interacting with our students and seeing the technology you have helped to provide in use offering unprecedented learning in St. Marc as you can see in the video link provided with this report.
As the year progressed, we were able to celebrate the progress of our project through presentations at the Pennsylvania Science Teacher’s Convention at Penn State University, the Embassy of Haiti in Washington, DC, the National Science Teacher’s Convention in Boston, a Haiti gathering in Pittsburgh, and at a local education foundation in our home town of Palmyra. We continue to spread the word about the good being done in Haiti thanks to your support.
This school year also marked the publication of the acclaimed book, The Global Education Toolkit for Elementary Learners by Tavangar and Mladic-Morales. Our project is highlighted on page 98 and 169. Look for more on this book in an upcoming project report.
Our project recently was awarded a grant from the Lebanon County Chapter of the Pennsylvania Association of School Retirees (PASR) to purchase a Classmate PC laptop for use with our project leaders in Palmyra. The Classmate PC is an Intel product designed in particular for schools in developing countries. These are the laptops purchased for primary use at our schools in Haiti. They are an amazing product that are like a laptop, E-Reader, and a tablet rolled into one.
Please mark your calendar for Microsoft YouthSpark Bonus Day which will begin June 25, 2014 at 12:00:00 PM (EDT) (noon) and will end June 26, 2014 at 11:59:59 (EDT). There is $200,000 available in matching funds from Microsoft. Matching is applied at 100% for every donation from $10 up to $1,000 per donor until matching funds run out. What a great opportunity to help celebrate our 5 years of success on GlobalGiving by continuing the legacy of what you have helped to start. Please share this report with friends and family who may want to help enhance the learning opportunities of children in Haiti.
Thanks again for your support!
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