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Pictured from Left to Right: Jessica Hunter,
Jana Allen, Kenny Collie, Headmaster Brandon Smith, Shakeeriona Hodge, Ashleigh Bilodeau,
Crystal Cockrell, and Perry Barnhill
EAST WAKE
ACADEMY ANNOUNCES:
~ The Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Partnership
Foundation ~
CASE GRANT WINNER!
Kenny Collie, a junior at East
Wake Academy, is the first high school student
in the nation to win and be
awarded the 2009 Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Partnership Foundation CASE
(Carter Academic Service Entrepreneur) Pilot Program Grant. This award
supports outstanding service programs that incorporate academic learning
and community engagement.
Little River Restoration project by Collie, receives $1,000
from the Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Partnership Foundation (JRCPF)
www.ServiceBook.org Collie will accept this
prestigious recognition and Certificate of Merit bearing the signatures
of President Jimmy Carter and Mrs. Rosalynn Carter. In addition, he
will receive a $500 scholarship upon the completion of his project final
report.
Collie’s project, brings the high school biology curriculum to life
with the partnership of Wake County Soil and Water Conservation
staff and NC Big Sweep, a statewide environmental nonprofit.
They will join students at EWA to restore and improve the Little River
Park in Zebulon with educational stations and improved recreational
facilities. This project seeks to establish a North Carolina-specific
watershed education component within East Wake Academy’s biology
curriculum. The renewed park and curriculum will be combined as a
resource for environmental research, school events, field trips, and
technology training for high school students throughout the area.
Academic Citizenship is one of our core targets at the Academy,
seeking to develop this target through its students and academic-service
learning in the community. We honor Mr. Collie with this high
achievement and recognize him with our “Above and Beyond” award for his
success in this proposed project.
Honorable Mentions for the
CASE Grant:
Ashleigh Bilodeau, a rising sophomore at East Wake Academy is
awarded for her outstanding example of impacting the senior citizen with
‘Growing Hope’, a project that partners with East Wake Total Life Center
pairing patients with a volunteer who brings a plant to nurture. East
Wake Academy students will recruit community adults and other students
as volunteers. By growing a plant, the patient will witness not only the
beauty of life, but feel a restoration of hope as they care for another
living organism and build a friendship with a community volunteer. Data
will be collected to track biological outcomes for plants and surveys
will track psychological outcomes for patients and volunteers. Bilodeau
also receives the Certificate of Merit from the Carter Foundation
bearing the signatures of President Jimmy Carter and Mrs. Rosalynn
Carter.
Mr. Chad Ray, a judge for the CASE Selection Panel discerned the
importance of Bilodeau’s community service and chose to sponsor her with
a $500 scholarship to help fuel her project in the community. This
inspiring act spurned the other Selection Panelists to partner with her
in physical support of the project as well.
Jessica Hunter, freshman and Perry Barnhill, sophomore are also to
be commended for their efforts in helping elementary students in the
community succeed in academics and preparation for beginning school.
Back for Buddies, Hunter’s project proposal seeks to help assist
low-socio-economic preschool students with backpacks filled with school
and personal hygiene supplies. The purpose of providing these supplies
is to ensure their preparedness to attend Kindergarten and have a solid
educational beginning. The focus group would be children in the local
Telamon Knightdale Head Start program who will be attending Kindergarten
in the upcoming school year. Miss Barnhill’s, ‘K.I.S.S.’ project
proposes to help support the struggles that 3rd-5th
graders who do not qualify for the extra help may need to understand
math and reading skills with a summer day camp. This summer-time camp
would incorporate fun through games, stories, and competitions while
reinforcing the importance of math and reading. Her community partner
for the project, East Wake Education Foundation, would work with
Barnhill to build her camp with the help of volunteers and curriculum
support. Both students will receive a Certificate of Merit from the
Jimmy and Rosalynn Foundation CASE Program for successfully completing
the grant application.
Shakeeriona Hodge, a senior at East Wake Academy, participated in
the CASE Grant competition and is truly admired for her project
proposal, Beads of Hope. Her project focus of citizenship brings
hope and awareness to those that suffer from the effects of cancer.
Partnering with Hope Community, a support group for the Cancer Centers
of Raleigh, will band together to make bracelets that symbolize, love,
peace and hope for those patients that struggle with this disease and
the survivors of cancer.
The JRCPF ServiceBook competition is open to college students in the
United States, United Kingdom and India. The East Wake Academy CASE
pilot program competition is a partnership between JRCPF and East Wake
Academy. The Academy is the first institution in secondary education
and in the nation to host a campus CASE competition sponsored by JRCPF.
East Wake Academy believes that all students will soar to success as
they continue to reach out in academic-service to others, using their
unique talents and knowledge to improve the community in which they
live.
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