The Cloquet Educational Foundation recently granted $14,990 to 18 local initiatives that will benefit 6,000 preschool and school age students during the 2007-2008 school year.
The monies dispersed were awarded to the following initiatives:
Get Smarter Campaign received $1,200 to support the purchase of a Smart Board for a third grade classroom at Churchill school.
Junior Great Books Project, a project submitted by teachers at Washington and Churchill Elementary Schools, was awarded $1,000 for materials.
Cloquet Community Education received $1,000 from a joint award from US Bank and CEF to support fee waivers for 70 students in grades 1-8.
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Churchill and Community Playground was awarded $1,000 to help with the building of a new, safe playground located at Sunnyside Park.
Elementary Developmentally Cognitively Disabled Class was awarded $250 to help six students participate in North Country RIDE activities.
The Power Lunch Reading Program, which serves 50 first and second grade students, was granted $500.
Cloquet Middle School was awarded $250 to implement the Why Try program for 164 students in the sixth grade.
After School Programming at Cloquet Middle School was awarded $250 to help students develop appropriate social skills.
The Big Read was awarded $750 to purchase 200 copies of the book "To Kill A Mockingbird" for 200 CHS students.
Say Yes to No Project, which will serve 518 Cloquet Middle School students, was awarded $200 to help ignite powerful community conversations to raise successful, healthy, and self-reliant children.
Future Problem Solving initiative received $2,000 to serve 140 student participants in grades five through eight.
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Geography Bee Cloquet Public Schools received $500 in funding support for the National Geographic Society Geography Bees serving 700 students in grades five to eight.
Spelling Bees, which will serve 700 Cloquet Public School students in grades five through eight, received $290 to help cover the cost of supplies, entry fees and transportation.
Inventors Fair for Cloquet Public School students received $1,500 for 130 fifth-grade students to participate in the Northeast Minnesota Inventors Fair.
Music Department at CMS and CHS was granted $800 in funding to support the "Spizzwinks" performance and workshop.
Science Department at Cloquet Middle School received $1,000 for the Science Research Projects serving 251 middle school students.
Abundance of Books for Childcares program received $1,000 to provide ownership of books for 250 preschool age children which is a powerful incentive to raise their interest in books.
Cloquet American Indian Education's Engage Students in American Indian Awareness Program impacts all students in the school district (2,200) with the goal of increasing understanding and respect for local cultural diversity with tribal community. The initiative received $1,500.
