Susan Moore Elementary School
Blountsville, AL

"Art Smarts" is an after-school program developed by Cherry to provide lower-income students exposure to the arts. According to Cherry, arts programs are becoming extinct in many schools because of budget cuts. "Art Smarts" provides students at Susan Moore Elementary School exposure to multiple musical genres and the basics of a theatrical production including practice and performance. To provide a well-rounded program, Cherry has asked outside art agencies to contribute their expertise and/or provide lessons. Cherry is a vocal performer, former arts teacher, former band member and is a contributor to the Alabama State Course of Study for the Arts. She is also a current advisor for the Alabama Black Belt Arts Initiative. Cherry resides in Altoona.

Tanaina Elementary School
Wasilla, AK

McCombs developed the "Kids Fitness" program to provide students with options of various activities during their open activity/play time. Four hundred and thirty two children from preschool through fifth grade enjoy physical activities in the school's gym. According to McCombs, physical fitness is important, especially in light of the issues around childhood obesity. Tanaina Elementary School does physical fitness testing twice a year to review the health of its students. McCombs' project has helped kids learn about keeping their bodies healthy, the importance of staying active, and that with a healthy body comes healthy living. McCombs lives in Wasilla.

Teeland Middle School
Wasilla, AK

Preservation of the Little Susitna River is the main focus of Shea's seventh-grade students at Teeland Middle School for his winning program idea, "Little Susitna River Rangers". The goal of the program is for the students, known as "river rangers", to learn about watershed ecology and water preservation. Participants will analyze their data and identify one negatively impacted site that human development has caused. The students are then required to develop a re-vegetation plan with the Wasilla Soil and Water Conservation District. The seventh graders will carry their project on in to the eighth grade and then train the new seventh graders on their findings. Shea resides in Wasilla.

Agua Caliente Elementary School
Tucson, AZ

Hodgeson has developed a program that provides students with neurological deficiencies the opportunity to enhance their learning by focusing on reflex integration, sensory needs and motor development. The "Motor Lab" program is different from typical physical education classes because it provides more structured individual and partner-type activities. Currently there are over 300 students benefiting from the program each week, and according to Hodgeson, the community involvement has garnered quite a bit of attention from the school's surrounding neighborhoods. Communication is provided to all parents on the benefits of the lab and parent volunteers receive training and help in the "Motor Lab". Hodgeson says that students have already shown tremendous growth in their motor development, learning readiness and academic achievement from weekly participation in the lab. Hodgeson resides in Tucson.

McClintock High School
Tempe, AZ

"The Amazing Race: Ancient Cultures" was designed by Kahn to have students develop and participate in a humanities version of "The Amazing Race", a popular reality television show. The project allows the students to gather information from around the globe for an appealing and energetic educational experience. In developing their "stories", the 90 12th-grade students at McClintock High School will utilize cutting-edge video technology, software, and other resources. During the game, students will represent other cultures that they will be studying. Creativity will play a big part in the game and the students will have to utilize their creative minds to keep the game moving. The final product will be evaluated on the culture or time period on which it is focused. Kahn lives in Gilbert.

Brookland Middle/High School
Brookland, AR

Montgomery and Withaker's program, "International Expo", will expand the knowledge of rural students into global ambassadors. Students will be encouraged to select underdeveloped countries and to search their communities for representatives of these countries. Displays will be built depicting life in these countries and all students' parents and community members will be invited to experience the "International Expo". There will also be an International Bazaar where the proceeds from sales will be donated to a specified non-profit organization. The students will not only learn about life in other countries, but also that students in Arkansas can make a difference in other students' lives.

Grace Hill Elementary School
Rogers, AR

"Emerald City Garden & Market - Growing Success" is a project developed by Smallwood to provide many opportunities to integrate reading, writing, and the arts for students at Grace Hill Elementary School. With community involvement, the project will look at the business side of agriculture. The "Garden" will also provide a great opportunity for more parental and volunteer involvement. Students will learn through a variety of hands-on activities. They will plant and care for the garden, read books about gardening, keep a journal, and create works of art based on the garden. The students will also measure, graph and look at the garden under microscopes, start a business, produce products from garden items, save and reinvest money, and make a donation to charity. Smallwood hopes that the students will learn many valuable character-building traits in the process. She lives in Rogers.

68th Street Elementary School
Los Angeles, CA

"Write On!" is a project-based program developed by Felix that integrates writing, English, photography, technology and web design into the teaching curriculum for his third-grade students at 68th Street Elementary School. The students use technology to research, write, edit and create a library of books which are then made available as e-books online. They learn how to use a digital camera, download and edit photographs, create and print pages and publish and upload their books on the Internet. In the past, the students have done all of their work using only one computer. Now, with the funds from ING, they will have the proper technology and software to continue producing their e-books. The technology used in "Write On!" is designed to give the children leverage to express their creativity. According to Felix, the skills that the students learn during the process are invaluable. He hopes that each student will learn that they are bigger than their circumstances and that their ideas have the power to create wealth. Each book that the students produce is sold to their family and friends. With the ING award, not only will Felix's students benefit, but the entire student body and many students will benefit for years to come. Felix resides in Los Angeles.

Joe Walker Middle School
Lancaster, CA

The goal of Irvin's project is to increase student, family and school communication, improve access to technology, and promote family involvement to keep students and parents actively engaged in school and the community. Her program, "K.I.O.S.K. (Kreating Internet Opportunities for School & Kommunity)", allows parents and students to use English in a Flash technology to build English vocabulary, interpersonal skills, and academic cognitive language. Parents and students also have access to the district Edline portal to check on attendance, grades and homework assignments; are able to communicate with teachers and administrators; and can access the Internet to do research for school projects and employment, school and community volunteer opportunities. According to Irvin, on average, program users will gain 100 new English vocabulary words per week. As students and parents obtain English proficiency over the course of the project, reading levels and library circulation are expected to show a dramatic increase. Irvin resides in Lancaster.

Northview High School
Covina, CA

Northview High School's journalism class, led by Lowry, will be introducing something new this year. "Express", an e-zine (online magazine), will be run by the class. "Express" will allow any student in the school to submit writing, artwork or digital photography. There are several phases to the project including production of a full-color book of all of the artwork and photographs submitted to the magazine. The journalism class will have full editing duties and will be designating special topics and themes for the magazine. The class will also be responsible for instructing students on the guidelines and how to submit work. After "Express" has run successfully for several months, Lowry says that any high school in California wishing to participate in this revolutionary project will be welcome to contribute. Lowry resides in Covina.

La Jolla High School
La Jolla, CA

"The Car Conversion" project, created by Teachworth, will involve students in grades nine through 12 at La Jolla High School. It will allow students to work and lead cross-curricular teams. These teams will form 'company-like' organizations to design and convert vehicles from gas-generated to electric. They will then install photovoltaic panels to help power these vehicles. Students will learn alternatives to fossil fuels for generating electrical power. The simultaneous conversion of two vehicles will allow two major groups of students to work on and develop an efficient electric vehicle. The project will simulate a car company production effort using approximately 381 students from seven different academic and industrial art courses. Teachworth resides in La Mesa.

Rice Elementary School
Wellington, CO

Because Colorado is highly dependent on its mountain streams, Cienfuegos-Baca has developed a science and social studies-based program, "Establishing Environments", to teach her 45 sixth-grade students how stream flow creates rivers and to help the students understand erosion, deposition, and the effect of flooding and a dam on floodplains. They will also spend time at Colorado State University's Pingree Park Campus in the Rocky Mountains where they will learn first-hand about watershed, understanding the changes and effects on the ecosystem due to water flow, discharge, dams, canyons, valleys, tributaries, animal and human affect. Students will be expected to, at the conclusion of the program, design a project that demonstrates the impact the environment has on its local culture and also demonstrate an understanding of how the local community and agriculture depends on the environment. The students will ultimately be able to explain how and why civilizations chose specific locations to settle and how humans have impacted these environments. Cienfuegos-Baca lives in Wellington.

Celentano Museum Academy
New Haven, CT

"The Worms Went in and the Worms Came Out" program encourages second-grade students at Celentano Museum Academy to involve themselves in the lives of worms and understand the impact worms have on the environment. It was created to build understanding and knowledge for children in the city who don't have backyards and to help them begin to think like scientists. Through research and the in-school worm bin, Hayes will help the youth become backyard ecologists. They will perform experiments to support their hypotheses about the worm as the simplest form of life. Although the 46 second-graders will be the initial beneficiaries of the program, all 483 students at Celentano Museum Academy will be impacted through collaborative research on sharing the planet. Ultimately, the goal is for the students' learning to improve as they develop an awareness of social responsibility and an ownership of knowledge because they will develop the project. Hayes lives in New Haven.

Plainfield Central School
Plainfield, CT

"Building Bridges - Constructing Meaning" is a program designed to explore large and small bridges and how they affect decision-making by individuals and in society everyday. Utilizing such content areas as math, science and social studies, and a final project utilizing language arts, Salsich and his colleagues will help 115 eighth-grade students at Plainfield Central School improve their problem-solving skills. Through this hands-on program, students will learn such things as how to measure and calculate angles, design a specific bridge for a specific function, as well as identify and explain the forces of tension, compression, torsion, shear and stress and strain as they relate to bridges. The students will also be able to explain the history and development of bridges, as well as explain the function of bridges in the past and in our current society. The students will venture into the community to examine and study local bridges and examine and design their own bridges. Ultimately, students will produce a final, full-color brochure of their own bridges. Salsich lives in Brooklyn, Conn.

Charter School of Wilmington
Wilmington, DE

Potocki and her eight colleagues within the Charter School of Wilmington's math department developed the "Math Lab" program specifically designed for this math and science specialty school. All 950 students will benefit from the "Math Lab", allowing them to ideally perform data gathering math activities. The lab will also allow the teachers to run more dynamic classes. The ultimate "Math Lab" will consist of 10 student work stations and one teacher station, each equipped with work surface space for three students, a computer with a variety of software to help with the math related activities, and a CBL and CBR (Texas Instruments tools that attach data-collecting probes to the students' graphing calculator or a PC). By creating this hands-on math lab, the team hopes to make math more fun and engaging as well as help students better retain what they learn.

Osceola Elementary School
Naples, FL

"Click Into Critical Thinking" was created by Anderson, Mutter, Nelsen, Vaught and Fontdevila for the more than 885 kindergarten through third-grade students at Osceola Elementary School to improve their knowledge and critical thinking skills. By implementing the "Classroom Performance System" (CPS), which gives each student a remote device to hold allowing them to click a key to enter their response to any type of question, Anderson and her colleagues can monitor every student's response as well as assess their knowledge and skills before moving on in a lesson. This program not only actively engages all students, but it also helps the teachers develop engaging activities based on data, allows for student collaboration, and demonstrates student understanding of rigorous academic skills. The entire program leverages the game-based technology and challenges the students' rush to play outside of school. The "Click Into Critical Thinking" program's goal is to increase the students' capacity to generate higher-order questions and self assess what they are learning.

R.M. Paterson Elementary School
Orange Park, FL

The "Archi-Techs" program, designed by Biegel, is a project-based multimedia learning experience in which her fifth-grade students at R.M. Paterson Elementary School will examine the essential question: "If buildings could talk, what would they tell us about the past?" Technology and architecture will be integrated by the "archi-techs" as they apply social studies, language arts, science and math during the students' year-long study of U.S. history. They will focus on local architecture and national historic buildings within the surrounding counties of Clay, Duval, and St. Johns, all in Florida. Through a variety of field trips to buildings and interviews with local architects and historians, students will begin to piece together the buildings' stories and share a perspective of U.S. history as seen through the buildings of the past. With support of local middle and high school students, the "archi-techs" will create a video podcast. Students will also create a scale model of each of the featured buildings/houses. By doing so, students are able to make a real-life connection to history instead of passively reading about it in a textbook, thus, bringing history to life. Biegel lives in Green Cove Springs.

Madeira Beach Middle School
Saint Petersburg, FL

"R.A.R.E. Writing" is a program designed to teach sixth through eighth-grade students at Madeira Beach Middle School how to answer short and extended response questions in an efficient and effective manner. Caruana created the program to help students answer questions with confidence and competence, thus, becoming more effective communicators. R.A.R.E. (Restate, Answer, Reason, and Explanation) also gives the school's other teachers of math, science and social studies an easy strategy to use with students throughout the school. The ultimate goal is to help create an environment that values writing, raises the standard and builds test scores. By implementing R.A.R.E., students will receive a more direct approach to writing their answers to short and extended response questions. Potentially all 1,300 students at Madeira Beach Middle School will benefit from R.A.R.E. Caruana's hope is for the program to have a ripple effect on the entire school district and ideally the entire state. Caruana lives in Seminole.

Air Base Elementary School
Homestead, FL

Fairclough's program, "Book a Trip Around the World", is a seven-month global literary tour that uses multicultural literature as a catalyst for an in-depth exploration of world cultures. Approximately 650 students, kindergarten through fifth grade, will take a cultural literacy journey around the world to help them appreciate global diversity and actively communicate with children from a variety of cultures. With literature as its staple, students will also gain a new awareness of customs, lifestyles, values, philosophical traditions as well as physical geography. Ultimately, students at each grade level will become immersed in target cultures, develop a life-long love of reading, expand and challenge their awareness of their global community and develop long-term international friendships. According to Fairclough, "Book a Trip Around the World" will be a springboard for curiosity, provide vital research skills and build a sense of unity with the international human community. Fairclough lives in Naranja.

Madison County Middle School
Danielsville, GA

The "Mustang Morning News" is a weekly news show that will be produced by seventh-grade journalism students at Madison County Middle School. The broadcast, which will air every Friday, will feature student news including academic programs, sports and extracurricular activities. Students on the news team will interview the student body, faculty, and staff to gather information for news stories. In addition to the newscast, students will reintroduce the school paper, the Mustang Mayhem. The newspaper will be run by journalism students in the sixth-grade. Both programs will allow over 400 journalism students to get hands-on experience with using digital video cameras, editing video, writing and editorial skills, public speaking, interviewing techniques and analyzing data from various school polls. Hill hopes that the "Mustang Morning News" and the Mustang Mayhem will keep students, faculty and staff informed about school news and will encourage the students to get more involved in academics, sports and other activities. Hill lives in Royston.

Sprayberry High School
Marietta, GA

The "FIT (Freshmen in Transition)" program was started in January 2007 to assist ninth-grade students at Sprayberry High School who were in danger of failing the ninth grade. There were 76 students that needed help; however, the resources - teachers and classroom space - only allowed for one class. Hudson and Walker want to continue to expand on the scope of the program and study skills curriculum to assist students who are transitioning from middle school to high school. The students who will participate in this phase of the program will be chosen based on their scores on the eighth-grade competency test that is given to all Georgia students. The program includes academic planning, time management, organizational skills, test taking skills, goal setting and improved communication with parents and guardians. Ultimately, the program hopes to reduce the high school drop out rate at the school, increase rates of students applying to post-secondary institutions and ultimately graduating from those institutions, and to assist students in acquiring skills to successfully plan and achieve their educational, career and personal goals.

Mill Creek High School
Hoschton, GA

"Dynamic Learning Using a Dynamics Sensor System" is a program that will allow the student to become the teacher. Students in the Advanced Placement Physics class at Mill Creek High School will research, develop, test and implement their own laboratory activities using a wireless dynamic sensor system and required computer software. Through research and experimentation, students will do "field tests" in small groups where they will troubleshoot their own experimental procedures. They will be challenged to think critically and creatively, will get hands-on laboratory experience, and learn to collect data digitally. The final experiments will be developed into presentations including instructional videos and a digital lab manual for use by other physics faculty. Marr hopes that the experiments produced by his students will have a trickle-down effect and can benefit other students at the school and ultimately be shared via the Internet to schools around the world. Marr lives in Hoschton.

DeKalb Early College Academy
Avondale Estates, GA

The "Leadership Out of Diversity Documentary Project" is a collaborative idea developed by McGlasker and her six colleagues. The award will allow DeKalb Early College Academy to acquire video and digital cameras, computer equipment and production resources to create an audio-visual documentary project on diversity that is generated by students. The diversity documentaries will focus on learning what factors create naturalized immigrant leaders and about the diasporas of various cultures. Students will conduct research focused on their own ethnicities by interviewing relatives and others who share their ancestry. They will read and discuss immigrant stories from several books including "Immigrant Voices" by Gordon Hunter. They will also use multimedia technology tools to create the videos. The goal is for students to show higher order learning skills, creative resources and literary enhancement and to use the footage they film to share lessons with others about diversity and leadership.

Pukalani Elementary School
Pukalani, HI

The "Robotics is Elementary" program developed by Brask is designed to help organize Maui's first Junior FIRST LEGO League team with fourth-grade students at Pukalani Elementary School. She plans to implement an after-school robotics club that will create an environment where science and technology are celebrated and where students will dream of becoming science and technology heroes. Brask strongly believes that developing an interest in engineering and technology is important to the future of students. In addition to science and technology, the program focuses on building student's self-confidence, leadership and life skills. The initial robotics club will consist of eight students who will work in teams of four. They will meet once a week for an hour and will eventually work through 40 animated tutorials that will help them learn how to effectively build and program a fully-functioning robot. The goal of the program is for Brask's entire class of 30 students to be able to participate in the club. Brask lives in Pukalani.

Lakes Middle School
Coeur d'Alene, ID

Harrelson and fellow teachers at Lakes Middle School created a Junior Engineering class to help with "Bridging the Gap" for their students and as a way to keep students interested in the areas of scientific research and engineering. The class bridges the gap between math and science and provides hands-on projects that complement curriculum that is taught in those subjects. Junior engineering incorporates computer literacy, scientific inquiry, project building and testing and physical science investigation that intertwine fun, competition and exciting activities for students. The simulated real world activities focus on creativity and problem solving as well as independent and teamwork learning. Students in the class will also improve their language skills as they present their results to others. Harrelson, who lives in Hayden, hopes that the program will provide his students with a level of technical literacy that is important in today's technology-rich society.

West Oak Middle School
Mundelein, IL

Carmichael plans to use the ING grant funds to make improvements and new additions to the "Conservation Courtyard". The "Conservation Courtyard" is an outdoor, open air, living laboratory that was developed by students at West Oak Middle School in March 2006 that surrounds classrooms at the school. Through a partnership with the Wildlife Discovery Center, Carmichael and her students created a variety of habitats including a permanent pond, prairie, butterfly garden and small area to conduct a class. The courtyard has also served as a safe haven and place for rehabilitation of native turtles that have been hit by cars. To build on the existing area, Carmichael would like to install a new hatchling rearing pond for rare blanding turtles that the students are currently raising, install museum quality interpretive signs as teaching tools for the students, and provide ongoing maintenance of the site. Since it was developed, the "Conservation Courtyard" has been well received by the school and overall community. In fact, over 85 percent of the students stated that the facility has had the greatest impact on increasing their level of interest in science. Carmichael, who resides in Mundelein, hopes that the conservation facility will continue to keep community and school pride at an all time high.

Park Junior High
La Grange Park, IL

"Sharing the Art" is a book and audio program for visual arts students in School District 102. The program builds off of the existing art gallery at Park Junior High school. Over 325 eighth-grade students will study major artists in the gallery and use images from the collection and their own creations to develop and publish books for primary students in the first and second grades. The books will provide information on the art and the artists. The eighth-grade students will also create podcasts for each book so the younger students will be able to read and also listen to the book. The program will allow the older students to use technology to research, create and disseminate information about the art, and have an opportunity to "teach" the younger students. The primary students will learn about art and reading through technology and will have hands-on experience with art. Heth, who resides in Broadview, hopes that the program can benefit students in other grades and the community at large in the future.

Coulterville Unit District #1
Coulterville, IL

"Biotechnology for Southern Illinois: Science Education that Takes Our Students Beyond the Classroom Window" is a program that makes Coulterville and Chester school districts a "hub" for biotechnology education. Parker felt that society's applications of biotechnology are expanding at a high rate, but many schools are not including it as a form of educational instruction due to lack of resources and implementation support. The program is designed to address this issue in Coulterville Unit District One schools for more than 300 high school students. The objectives of the program are to provide teachers and students with a biotechnology curriculum that utilizes hands-on experiments to enhance intrinsic understanding of the scientific principles, and to provide educators with the training, support and equipment to incorporate biotechnology into their existing curriculum. An ultimate goal for the program is to open the students up to new employment possibilities in fields such as medicine, forensics, politics and law, which will lead to improvements throughout the community. Parker resides in Albers.

Hickory Center Elementary School
Fort Wayne, IN

Huttsell's project titled "Rub-a-dub-dub, Science in a tub!" brings necessary science concepts and hands-on activities to kindergarten through second-grade students in an easy-to-use tub with instructions. As a science teacher at Hickory Center Elementary School, Huttsell has found that the hands-on aspects of the subject can be a great motivator for her students. She plans to coordinate the project components to meet state science and math standards for the students. The tubs may include items such as rock samples, prisms, sand, soil and magnifying glasses. The children will be able to use the hands-on activities in the tubs as a class every week throughout the school year. Huttsell plans to evaluate the success of the activities and make necessary changes in order to share the tubs with other teachers. The tubs may possibly be loaned to parents over the summer as an enrichment tool for their child. Huttsell's ultimate vision is to put science in the hands of all of her students. Huttsell resides in Ft. Wayne.

Future Pathways - Central Campus
Des Moines, IA

"Think It Over" is a teen pregnancy prevention program for at-risk students in the Future Pathways dropout prevention center at Central Campus. The program was designed to help prevent unplanned pregnancies for teens and help students gain a real understanding of the responsibilities associated with teenage parenthood. The "RealCare Baby" infant simulators will be used to show that caring for an infant can be difficult work. The simulators and curriculum, which comply with state standards for family consumer sciences, are programmed to require specific infant care from the students including feeding, diaper changing, burping, and rocking. As a baby simulator cries, the student must determine what type of care is needed. The response is recorded by software in the simulators that will report whether the type of care given was correct. The baby will interrupt the students' social lives and will wake them up in the middle of the night. In addition to the baby simulators, the program will also include the Empathy Belly which allows male and female students to experience what it is like to carry a child. Arnold's goal is to show the students first-hand what having a baby is really like and will not only benefit the students, but the community as a whole. Arnold lives in Des Moines.

Waverly-Shell Rock Senior High School
Waverly, IA

"Navigating the Stream Data" is a continuation of an existing stream monitoring program at Waverly-Shell Rock Senior High School. Students in the Algebra II and Science Issues class will join together to collect a variety of data from two local streams twice a year. After collecting data such as pH levels, temperature and dissolved oxygen, nitrite, nitrate and phosphate levels, the students will review the data for correlations and Fox will send the data back to them using the TI-Navigator system. The system allows for immediate feedback from the teacher to the students and makes the process more time efficient. By using data from local streams, the data analysis will be more rigorous and relevant for the students who will then have to present their findings to the rest of the class. The goal is that the program will help students improve their communications skills and that the TI-Navigator system will increase their interest and achievement in mathematics. Fox lives in Waverly.

Hadley Middle School
Wichita, KS

The "Books Alive Book Club" strives to make memorable reading and literature experiences for seventh and eighth graders at Hadley Middle School. Brocks, along with her co-facilitators Walter and Schock, have a goal to get students actively reading and participating in discussion-style feedback opportunities with classmates. Each student will receive one book per month to begin their personal libraries. They will then conduct journal writing and visualization activities in addition to the discussions. Weekly extension activities will also keep the students involved and will include guest speakers, crafts, research and community service projects. Students will also participate in field trips to local universities, used book stores, museums and libraries. To encourage and continue reading in the home, students will secure newspaper subscriptions and library cards. Finally, Brocks wants parents involved in the effort by encouraging them to read the book of the month and attend after-school literary activities.

Loranger High School
Loranger, LA

Fighting childhood obesity is the premise behind Verberne's "Project HEALTH", which stands for High School and Elementary Achieving Lifestyles That Are Healthy. In this project, 10th grade biology students at Loranger High School will learn about the human body and how exercise and a healthy diet will affect them. From their findings, they will then teach fourth graders at a local school about making healthy eating choices to live an improved life. The high school and elementary school students will ultimately collaborate to develop healthy living ads that will be posted in schools and the community to promote awareness of health habits. The goal of the project is to make sure that students understand the importance of their bodies at a young age and that they learn how their studies apply to help them maintain their health. Verberne resides in Kentwood.

Thornton Academy
Saco, ME

Hall's "Meeting In the Middle" website brings together two countries on opposite sides of the world, Cambodia and the United States. She plans to develop a website geared to middle school teachers and students that discusses life in Cambodia. Hall's visit to Cambodia in 2005 allowed her to interact with girls who were enrolled in school for the first time. She wanted to share the experiences of the face-to-face meetings she had with Cambodian families and the newly-enrolled girls. She visited Cambodia again this past summer with her 12-year-old daughter, who will offer input on the website. The goal is to create an interactive and thought-provoking site that gives an authentic Cambodian perspective to teachers and students for free. Some of the site's features may include a time difference clock, maps, video clips of Cambodian children, a list of books about Cambodia, teacher resources and a blog where students in each country can ask questions. The site will be in development during Fall 2007. Hall resides in Cumberland.

Salem School
Frostburg, MD

The "Mountains to the Bay" project allows students in a new school building to study how to return the disturbed land on which their campus is built back to its natural settings. Salem School in Frostburg is already the recipient of a Chesapeake Bay Trust grant that encourages the reestablishment of native species of plants and grasses in the area. The school is located near the Wolf Swamp, one of the largest swamps in North America. With this new project, Jordan wants her 35 students in grades six to 12 to study and monitor soil composition and runoff, gather water samples, and analyze and report data gathered from the school site in comparison with the Chesapeake Bay area. This is believed to be the first time that any school-age group has studied the Wolf Swamp. In addition to the students' work, Jordan is considering the involvement of environmental studies students from Frostburg State University to offer additional analysis and reporting. Jordan resides in Frostburg.

Whitman-Hanson Regional High School
Whitman, MA

Moriarty's "Engineering The Future" class addresses a national trend among young people in academia - the lack of students actively pursuing careers in science and math-related fields. Moriarty collaborated with the Museum of Science in Boston to develop the course curriculum. The class at Whitman-Hanson Regional High School aims to show students exactly what an engineer does in their everyday career, taking participants through four different units that all involve engineering. They participate in course segments titled, "Building a Better Organizer", "Design a Building of the Future", "Improve on the Design of a Putt Putt Boat", and "Build a Communication System". The goal of the course is to familiarize students with aspects of the engineering design process. After each course unit, the students will develop an actual product that is presented to their class. They will follow all of the steps and methods used by engineers everyday. In the end, the students will be more prepared to pass the Massachussetts Comprehensive Assessment System's (MCAS) Technology and Engineering test, which is a graduation requirement for all high school students in the state. Moriarty resides in Bridgewater.

Brownell Middle School
Grosse Pointe Farms, MI

Charuba's project titled "Hydromania" at Brownell Middle School will allow sixth graders to test the local water environments of the Detroit River and Lake Howell. Collecting data using computer probeware, students will test turbidity, acidity, conductivity and temperature of the bodies of water. Their research will then be sent to GLOBE, which is short for Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment. This is a worldwide primary and secondary school-based science and education program. It promotes and supports students, teachers and scientists to collaborate on inquiry-based investigations of the environment and Earth. The students and faculty at Brownell Middle School will become members of an international scientific community in 109 participating countries. This link will show students the impact that scientific research in their local community can have on other researchers throughout the world. Charuba resides in Grosse Pointe Farms.

Caledonia High School
Caledonia, MI

The donation of an historic dairy farm to Caledonia High School is the catalyst behind Schut's project. The "Med-O-Bloom School Farm" consists of a house, contemporary and historic barns, and open space. This unique donation is an excellent way to get students and the community involved in a joint fashion. Schut has developed different experiences for students at each tier of potential funding for the project. He will first create a veterinary science lab for high school students in one of the existing buildings on the farm. The lab will offer stations and pen areas to temporarily house species of animals involved in agriculture. The objective is to teach high school students about animal body systems, health care and daily management. Hopefully, student interest will be piqued to study veterinary and zoology careers in college. At increased levels of project funding, Schut plans an expansion of the veterinary science lab, the development of a comprehensive elementary and middle school visitation program, and the implementation of a small pasture-based animal flock for student care. Schut resides in Belding.

Lincoln Park High School
Lincoln Park, MI

The "Science for the Real World" project involves ninth-grade students in physical science at Lincoln Park High School teaming up with local career professionals. Students will be given plans to build a simple model home using metric measurements. A construction expert will visit to explain how building plans are read and the importance of math skills in construction. From there, the students will wire the house to further their understanding of electric circuitry. An electrician will be on hand in the classroom to explain proper safety and wiring techniques. The final task is for the students to install geothermal piping in their floors, insulation and energy-efficient glass and lighting. They will also install solar panels and a windmill on the roof of the home and link it to a power supply to demonstrate energy transfer. A guest speaker from the energy company and a local clergy member whose church uses solar energy will discuss its benefits and importance. By the completion of the project, students will have engaged in real-life application of scientific studies and met career experts in each area of study. Straksis resides in Ypsilanti.