EDUCATION BRIEFS
Ma'ili, Makakilo schools win prize
Advertiser Staff
Ma'ili Elementary and Makakilo Elementary students have earned $5,000 for each of the schools through D.R. Horton-Schuler Division's Read-to-Win program.
The schools won after more than 200 third-grade students from the schools exceeded their reading goals over the past school year.
Students were expected to read and report on nine books, which were donated by the company. Each student completing the program would receive $32 for the school, and a 75 percent completion rate made the schools eligible for the top $5,000 prize.
Makakilo's participation rate was 99 percent, while Ma'ili had 96 percent participation.
Scholarship applications
The Center is accepting scholarship applications for the upcoming school year.
Formerly named the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Questioning Student Scholarship Fund, the award is now called the Donna Spaulding Memorial Scholarship.
Spaulding was a leader in the LGBTIQ community and a key component to The Center's growth over the past few years.
For more information about the scholarship or to make a donation, call 951-7000 or go to www.thecenterhawaii.org.
Digital Media Arts teacher honored
Michael O'Connor, a teacher at Digital Media Arts Academy, has received one of 20 Time Warner National Teacher Awards.
O'Connor was recognized yesterday in Washington, D.C. His project, "I'm Just Like Everyone Else," used Oceanic programming to help students with disabilities participate in a seven-week video production course that taught them to create slide shows, conduct interviews, write scripts and storyboards and create short issue-related videos and public service announcements.
The award comes with a $1,000 grant.
Professor receives Fulbright grant
Ann Stamp Miller, an associate professor at TransPacific Hawaii College has been awarded a Fulbright grant to lecture at Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat and Technische Universitat in Germany. She teaches history, German, and Women's Studies at TransPacific Hawaii College, an international college in Honolulu.
Miller received invitations to lecture from Humboldt-Universitat in Berlin, Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat in Jena and Technische Universitat in Dresden, and received one of only five grants given in the United States in her award category.
Miller is one of approximately 800 American faculty and professionals who will travel to 140 countries for the 2005-06 academic year through the Fulbright Scholar Program. Established in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late Sen. J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the program's purpose is to build mutual understanding between the people of the United States and other countries.
