GRANTS
How do Myrtle Beach
school educators apply for and receive a grant from The Foundation?
All Myrtle Beach cluster school principals and teachers
are eligible to apply for funding through a Foundation educational
mini-grant. Grant application forms can be obtained from the school's
principal or down oloaded from this web site. The application
outlines the objectives, proposed activites, budget for the project
and an evaluation strategy. The completed grant application is
reviewed by the individual's School Improvement Council and then
forwarded to The Foundation board for final approval.
Funds are allocated to the six Myrtle Beach area schools based
on their 45th day of enrollment number.
The Foundation also works and avenue to secure material donations
whenever possible and has created many methonds for accepting
donations. For more information see Ways
You Can Help
If you are interested in applying for a grant you may download
a Grant Application from your
browser
and submit it to your SIC.
Grants awarded during the 2000-2001 school
year include:
Myrtle Beach Primary: A grant designated to support
the Fine Arts Day program. Activities organized by Linda Shields,
Music Instructor, included a storyteller, Mexican band, jugglers,
the MBI Chorus and performers from the symphony.
Myrtle
Beach Intermediate: Funding
to purchase Short Stories novel sets, which will be used to conduct
group literature studies within the classrooms. Technology Specialist,
Mary Beth Freeman, who initiated the grant, outlined some of the
benefits for using preparatory activities with the novel sets
to increase critical thinking skills, problem solving strategies
and verbal and math logic reasoning.
Grants awarded
during the 2001-2002 school year include:
Myrtle
Beach Middle: A grant initiated
from their science teachers to purchase the science program Sciencesaurus.
This innovative and instructional science book will enhance the
existing curriculum as well as serve as another reference supplement
to the current science book.
Myrtle
Beach Elementary: Sonya
Hobgood, the Curriculum Specialist, submitted a grant for The
"Author's Collection". This purchase of a collection
of books written by a variety of authors will be used in the classrooms.
In studying these books the students' will learn to compare and
contrast each author's style, increase awareness of the author's
purpose as well as reinforce and supplement the English Language
Arts curriculum.
Myrtle
Beach Primary: The Foundation
was pleased to provide funding assistance to support their successful
and entertaining Fine Arts Day. This annual event coordinated
by Linda Shields, is very popular with the school and exposes
the students to a variety of cultural activities. The students
are able to participate in a multitude of events ranging from
storytelling, to dancing and music. It is a daylong educational
event that provides amazing entertainment.
Grants awarded during the 2002-2003 school year
Myrtle Beach Primary
We are pruchasing a new video system for the production of onsite
media prgrams including "Good Morning Myrtle Beach Primary"
and classroom videos. Students are provided with daily updates
on school activities, review of Lifeskills and are recognized
for outstanding achievements as welll as birthday, etc. through
this program.
June Moorhead, Principal
Myrtle Beach Elementary
School
As we continue to purchase reading materials for
out students, we are constantly analyzing the spectrum of difficulty
to cover all ranges of academic ability. Consequently, the money
received through the Education Foundation from The Rotary Club
of Myrtle Beach literacy grant was used to enhance our literacy
collection to serve more students at Myrtle Beach Elementary.
From the Verizon technology grant we were able to purchase additional
televisions for the classrooms to ensure all students are able
to watch our student produced morning show. This grant will also
aid in the work our studnets are going on power point presentations
for parents and visitors entering our school detailing information
about school events, celebrations and general information. We
were also able to update our existing overhead projectors and
buy additional projectors for our teachers to facilitate classroom
instruction for our students.
Renea Anderson-Fowler, Principal
Myrtle Beach Elementary students show off items purchased with
grant money.
Myrtle Beach Middle
School
This year Myrtle Beach Middle School purchased
educational materials with the generous contributions arranged
through the Myrtle Beach Education Foundation. Using the funds
from a technology grant from Verizon we were able to purchase
the folloing items: 5 microscopes, 2 Avery Keys which allow for
the connection of computers to TV screens in the classroom, 1
Videos Flex microscope, a devise that projects an image on a computer
for viewing by a larger audience, Ed Design enrichment materials
for Literacy for all grades and levels (Critical Rea Proficiency)
for the entire student body and 5 over head carts.
Rotary's contribution of $300.00 was used for the purchase of
materials for instruction for all students during ACE and After-school
tutorial programs - "Strategies to Achieve Reading Success
Programs".
Roger Gray, Principal and Connie Huddle, Assistant Principal
Students in Ms. Wright's MBMS science class enjoy their new video
microscope.
Academy of Arts, Science
and Technology
Students in Mr. Clark's History class were thrilled
to receive $300.00 worth of reference books for use in the classroom.
These books will be available to the entire student body at the
Academy.
Frank Clark, Faculty
Students from Mr. Clark's history class use new reference books.
