- Thursday, August 27th, 2009 3:30pm
- Jewish Community Center, After School Program
- K-5th grade, 40 students
- Ocean Overview, mixed media
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Jewish Community Center After School Program – Ocean Overview
August 27th, 2009
2009 – 2010 School Year!
August 24th, 2009
Greetings!
Cayman Lettuce Slug
As the new school year gets started, we just wanted to let everyone know how we are doing! We have a bunch of new schools lined up for presentations already! (the schedule should be up in a week!) We will be heading north into the Phoenix area again where we will be working in at least two new districts! In Tucson, we are working with multiple school districts including Amphi, Vail, Tanque Verde, TUSD, and others! Hopefully we will be making our way into the Flowing Wells School District and the Marana School District as well!
We will be making our way east as well, heading back into New Mexico and Texas! We are venturing into new areas all the time so if you are interested in having the Fin Foundation come to your school or district, just let us know!
We are also doing new presentations, working on art projects, and conducting presentations in new ways to include people with different skill sets and abilities such as in the blind and deaf schools.
We will be updating the crittercorner with new species every 2 to 3 weeks and will be taking submissions from local school children for publishing on occasion! Should be fun!
Our video production program will be making its first adventure trip in early October when The Fin Foundation heads to Guadalupe Island for some Great White Shark diving! Look for the short videos in December!
We have a new website that offers some of our photographer’s images for sale with the profits going to the Fin Foundation. Drop by and take a look around! It is just getting started but has loads of potential! www.FinFoundationImages.com
Manny showing students shark jaws!
We continue to drum up great volunteer support and we are happy to say that our team is growing everyday! Michael Schrantz and Adrian Cardoni have been giving a great deal of their time over the summer to attend presentations and learn the Fin Foundation way! Steve Williams has been donating his creative touch for marine photography and set up the photography page! Travis Williams has been doing loads of presentation photos and studio work for us. There are many others and hopefully everyone who is lending a hand knows how much we appreciate them!
Jewish Community Center – “J” School Program
August 18th, 2009
- Tuesday, August 18th, 2009 11:00am
- Jewish Community Center, School’s Out Day Prpgram
- Kindergarten through 5th grade, 10 students
- Ocean overview with mixed media
We worked with a very small group of children this morning! It is fun to get the chance to have more of a one to one chance to talk with the kids about marine science and the ocean. We used our powerpoint presentation so we were able to show some of the amazing photographs from our growing collection of donated pictures! The kids really appreciate the chance to see what we are speaking about in addition to holding the artifacts we bring in! If we cant take them directly to the ocean, this is our way of bringing the ocean to them!
Flowing Wells High School – Ocean Overview
August 17th, 2009
- Monday August 17th, 2009 7:35 – 10:45am
- Flowing Wells High School
- 2 classes, 9th-10th grade, 55 students
- Ocean Overview, mixed media
Our second class at FWHS! Amazing kids! Thanks Mrs. Waters!
We had a great time at Flowing Wells High School this morning! Three of us went to Mrs. Waters class and spoke to two classes, doing the ocean overview with powerpoint presentation! Lots of enthusiasm in the class even though we started out at 7:30am! Great questions were asked by the groups, really showing how scientists are created! Loved that! There was a well informed student that knew so much, it was like being in the university forum again! Also had the chance to present to a second class that showed amazing attention and were really taken by the artifacts that we used! You should check in the gallery section of the webpage to see our artifacts! I cant wait to do more presentations to the great students in the Flowing Wells District! An additional note… It always makes me feel good about our public education system when administrators stop by classrooms to see what is happening on a regular basis… and not only did the Principal stop in, but so did other teachers on their prep period and one of the Assistant Superintendents of the district!
Schedule your presentation early!
August 11th, 2009
- Now is the time to get us scheduled into your classroom!!
- Don’t hesitate to contact us to set up presentations for 09-10!
- Look for our posters around schools, in teacher’s lounges, and at district meetings! The secret is out!
- Tell your friends, cohorts, and kids about the Fin Foundation! Let’s reach out to more kids!
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