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Greater Wilmington – Awards $30K to Educators

The Links to Learning Program is in its fifth year, and Assistance League has now contributed over $80,000 to local schools.

Assistance League of Greater Wilmington awarded 56 educators for 46 projects in New Hanover, Brunswick and Pender counties, totaling more than $30,000 through its Links to Learning Program for the 2016-2017 school year. The awards allow educators to enrich and expand classroom and extracurricular activities and/or develop new or different approaches to teaching that will stimulate creative thought.

The Links to Learning Program is in its fifth year, and Assistance League has now contributed over $80,000 to local schools through this program. The number of applications has grown each year — this past year Assistance League received 83 applications for a total request of over $66,000 against our $30,000 budget.

 Assistance League of Greater Wilmington is a nonprofit, all-volunteer organization that puts caring and commitment into action through its philanthropic programs serving children, families and seniors in the tri-county area.

The award winners for 2016-2017 were:

    • Woodard/North Topsail , Math Station Learning Center Kits
    • Wirszyla/Cape Fear Elementary, SHAPE-LESS: Part two — Student Healthy Activities in Physical Education
    • Terzaken/Lincoln, The Garden at Lincoln Elementary
    • Holloway/Wrightsboro, Wrightsboro Elementary Think Lab
    • Moore/Winter Park, Collection Development — Filling in Some “Series-ous” Gaps
    • Donnelly, Bloodworth, Umpress/ Burgaw Elementary, Building a Bi-Lingual Bridge to Literacy
    • Cleary, Huyett/Lincoln, Science Olympiad Team
    • Full/North Topsail, Classroom I-Pad
    • Vance/Town Creek, Fifth Grade Examines Global Issues
    • Cox, Holden/Town Creek, Supporting 21st Century Learners
    • Morgan/Town Creek, Wanted: Exceptional Tools for Exceptional Learners
    • Constantinou/Gregory, #Kindness Matters
    • Lawson/Gregory, Sphero Robot Project
    • Cleary/Castle Hayne, Math/Art Geometric String Art Sculpture
    • Charles/Castle Hayne, Classroom Keyboards
    • Miller/Castle Hayne, Learning to Love Literature!
    • DesMarais/Castle Hayne, Lego “More to Math” Sets for 1st and 2nd Grade Math Students
    • Cassidy/Sunset Park, Brain Boosters — Brain, Pop, Jr/ESL
    • Redmond/Sunset Park, IPads: Collaboration and Individual Learning Come to Life
    • Shufford, Rogers/D.C. Virgo, Makerspace and Science Fair
    • Myslow/West Pender, Show Your Strengths
    • Rovnak/West Pender, Science Is a Sport