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W W W.T E C H L E A R N I N G . C O M students pretend to be astronauts and go through a year-long “astronaut training” program to investigate the principles of science through hands-on activities. Those activities include designing and building a model plane; building and launching hot-air balloons and rockets; researching waves; and studying actual data from NASA. Each student is provided with a handheld research tool that motivates them to complete their class work and expand their knowledge of how technology is applied. The program serves as an experimental model for the school to test the effect of technology use on overall student performance. ORGANIZATION: OLYMPUS AMERICA Grant Program: Olympus Tool Factory Classroom Grants URL: www.toolfactory.com/olympus_contest/ olympus_teacher. htm WHAT THEY The Dollar General Grant winners have enhanced their school libraries. GIVE: Olympus classroom grants are open curriculum provided an ideal platform for using technology to to K-12 and special educaenhance student learning. During the program, students were tion schools in the US, its introduced to a variety of new technologies, including digital territories, and Canada. The cameras and project-building software. During the course, stuprogram awards 10 grants dents visited a large local supermarket to touch and photoeach year. graph the store’s produce—creating a permanent record of the WHAT SCHOOLS DID visit and a visual means of identification of the foods. Students WITH IT: In 2007, the New used Olympus’s Multimedia Lab V software technology to creBritain High School (New ate a final presentation. Their photographs complemented the Britain, Connecticut) was awarded slides which contained text derived from their research. an Olympus Tool Factory Classroom Grant to teach students basic food preparation techniques, Grant Program(s): The Dollar General Back-to-School Grant including nutrition, sanitation, and URL: www.dollargeneral.com/Community/Pages/Grant business management. The Programs.aspx#back toschoolgiving diverse nature of the WHAT THEY GIVE: The Dollar General Back-to- ORGANIZATION: DOLLAR GENERAL School Grants provide funding to assist schools with some TECH & LEARNING | 19 http://WWW.TECHLEARNING.COM http://www.toolfactory.com/olympus_contest/olympus_teacher.htm http://www.toolfactory.com/olympus_contest/olympus_teacher.htm http://www.dollargeneral.com/Community/Pages/GrantPrograms.aspx#backtoschoolgiving http://www.dollargeneral.com/Community/Pages/GrantPrograms.aspx#backtoschoolgiving

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