Franklin Middle School
Champaign, IL 61820
Phone: (217) 351-3819
Fax: (217) 351-3729
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Information for Community Partnerships, Support, and Donations Franklin Middle School has received support from various places throughout the 2007-2008 school year. We look forward to expand on this for the 2008-2009 school year.
During the 2008-2009 school year we received support and donations from: Lowes Toolbox for Education Grant - Franklin is excited to announce that we have received a $5000 grant from Lowes to place Smart Boards in four of our Math and Science classrooms, as a part of Franklins Math and Science Smart Board Initiative. Champaign/Urbana Schools Foundation - CU Schools Foundation has provided 22 our our teachers with SPLASH grants, providing each teacher with up to $500.00 toward classrooms materials. - Some of the items acquired by the teachers are: wireless slates, books, student computers, projectors, along with many other items. AmerenIP - A second donation of $500.00 toward our Math and Science SmartBoard Initiative, which helped to mount projectors in three of our math and science classrooms. DonorsChoose.org - Teachers are continuing to use Donors Choose, which allows our teachers to create an online request classroom materials. Donors Choose then allows individuals to view these requests and submit an online donation toward the classroom materials. Click here to view the current Teacher Requests on DonorsChoose.org. Computers for Franklin Students - Prairienet, a part of the Community Informatics initiative at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, at the University of Illinois, has provided 15 computers for Franklin students who do not have computers at home. Nine students have already received their computers, the other 6 will receive their computers the week before winter break. We are hoping this will become a recurring donation every semester.Prairienet is able to help our students through donated computers from the community. If anyone in our community would like to help our students in this endeavor, please donate your old computers to Prairienet. The computers will then be reconditioned and passed on to our students. For more information about this program, please contact Josh Wiechert at Franklin, 217-351-3819,wiechejo@champaignschools.org; or Paul Adams at Prairienet, (217) 333-5218, padams@uiuc.edu
During the 2007-2008 school year we received support and donations from: The Lion's Club - donation of a new LCD projector, which allows teachers to check out the projector to display digital images on a screen in their class room. Best Buy - The Best Buy Management Team has donated a new tripod and two high quality microphone headsets to Franklin for use in our multimedia productions. AmerenIP - donation of $500.00 toward our Math and Science SmartBoard Initiative, which helped to mount projectors in three of our math and science classrooms. DonorsChoose.org - Donors Choose allows our teachers to create an online request classroom materials. Donors Choose then allows individuals to view these requests and submit an online donation toward the classroom materials. Click here to view the current Teacher Requests on DonorsChoose.org. - During the 2007-2008 school year, through Donors Choose a few of our Franklin teachers have requested, and received donations to fund classroom books and other reading materials, and LCD projectors.
We all recognize the fundamental truth in the old African proverb, "It takes a village to raise a child." And Champaign County is rich in resources that can dynamically impact the quality of education our children receive.
If you are interested in supporting Franklin Middle School through a donation, fundraiser, or other support, please contact Josh Wiechert at 217-351-3819 or wiechejo@champaignschools.org. |
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January 13, 2010
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