News & Events: Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Partnership Foundation Selects EWA

From Left to Right: Darrell Johnson - Assistant Headmaster and Director of the Senior Academy, Molly Widmyer - NC State Habitat for Humanity Chapter President, Brandon Smith - Headmaster, Jana Allen - Community Partners Coordinator

Selects

EAST WAKE Senior ACADEMY

for

CASE GRANT PILOT PROJECT

(CARTER ACADEMIC SERVICE ENTREPRENEUR)

Formal Announcement:  January 14, 2009 at 10 a.m.

For more information contact:

Mrs. Allen (ext. 139) or Mrs. Cockrell (ext. 140) at the

Senior Academy

The East Wake Senior High Academy is proud to announce a collaboration with the Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Partnership Foundation (JRCPF) of Atlanta, GA.  The Senior Academy was selected as one of three high schools in the nation to host the first Carter Academic Service Entrepreneur (CASE) grant program in a high school.  This competition will seek to find the most innovative and promising way for our high school students to serve the community with a project related to their courses of study. 

The CASE grant pilot program awards a $1,000 grant for the winning student to implement in a community project, a $500 scholarship upon completion of a final report and a certificate of merit signed by President and Mrs. Carter for the student and his or her faculty advisor.  All students, whose proposals meet the criteria, are presented with certificates from the Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Partnership Foundation.   The grant, sponsored by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, is designed to foster academic service-learning at American colleges and universities.  This project for our academy, will be a demonstration that it works equally well in secondary education.  In addition to the monetary prize and certificate, the winner’s project report will be published on the Foundation’s website, www.jrcpf.org and www.servicebook.org the Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter community online service.

Applications for the grant will begin Friday, January 30^th with a special interest meeting for more information during high school lunch in the Student Union.  The deadline for the application will be Thursday, April 9^th. Students who have worked with a community partner in or around the Triangle area in the past and have an idea for a service-learning project that deepens the connection between the Academy and community are strongly encouraged to apply.  The application guidelines encourage ingenuity as the student links their academic learning experience with a community need.  This grant will be awarded to the most promising project proposal taking place in the 2009 spring semester.  Online application for the grant is available at www.servicebook.org. The winner of the CASE Grant will be chosen by a local selection panel following the criteria of the grant and knowledgeable about academic-service learning.

About the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Partnership Foundation

The Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Partnership Foundation recognizes the best academic-service learning work of students and faculty as they partner with community groups and community agencies.  Recognition comes to winners of the Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Partnership Award (JCPA) or the Carter Academic-Service Entrepreneur grant (CASE). Such recognition is a powerful motivator and provides a vivid picture of excellence - and success - for scores of other applicants each year in each state where the programs are held. Hundreds of applicant organizations have received recognition through the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Partnership Award. Some have attracted more participants and, in some cases, have attracted more funding. By applying similar uniform and high standards to JRCPA and CASE selection, the programs not only recognize the best models, but inspire others to excel and achieve the status of a Carter Certified Partnership for campus-community collaboration or a Carter Certified Academic-Service Entrepreneur.   For more information visit:  www.jrcpf.org