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Mattoon Foundation for Academic Excellence 2009 Teacher Grant Awards

Board Members  Brian Hinton President  Pat Harrington Treasurer  Sherri Branson Secretary  Robert Miller  Mary Wetzel  Sarah Smith  Larry Lilly  Dan Jones  Beckie Wetzel (retiring)

Past Grant Recipients  Ag program start-up materials  Astronomical Observation Site & Equipment  Student run bookstore  FASSTMATH  Epilog Laser  MHS graduate follow-up surveys  Earobics

Grants  Our goal is to fund grants that will impact the largest group of students possible. Most projects are usually technology related, but not required.  Annual grant dollars usually range from $28,000 to $40,000.  The Foundation has awarded over $460,000 to the school district since it's inception in 1994. This year MFAE awarded $24,373

2008 Grant Award winners All district “Creating Art in the 21 st Century-Digital Presentation cameras” Riddle/Williams “What is it- Computer Microscopes”

2008 Grant Award winners Riddle “Vtech Nitro- Mini computers” MMS “Senteo Response systems for SmartBoards” “Wireless Tablet”

2008 Grant Award winners MHS “Print Technology – Desktop Publishing (partial funding) “Mini Notebook for Econ & Sociology classrooms ”

 The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate "apparently ordinary" people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people. ~K. Patricia Cross  A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. ~Horace Mann  The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. ~Mark Van Doren