Chamber Of Commerce—Eastern Connecticut: Chamber Foundation Awards Additional Scholarships After Challenging Year patch.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from patch.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
In April, the Chamber of Commerce of Eastern CT Foundation announced they re offering four $1,250 scholarships for high school seniors in eastern Connecticut. Students planning to attend college, technical, vocational or apprenticeship program are eligible to apply by the May 15 deadline. Applications are available at ChamberECT.com/foundation.
This spring, the Foundation’s Board of Directors will select recipients based on a variety of criteria including academic persistence, community involvement, career interest, and financial need.
“These scholarships are an important component of the Foundation’s work in eastern CT, especially as many families have faced a challenging year,” stated Louis Ziegler, Chair of the Chamber of Commerce of Eastern CT Foundation’s Board of Directors. “We are proud to support workforce development, students, and families by providing financial assistance to promising high school seniors pursuing higher education or exploring vocational tr
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2 Local Teachers Candidates for MN Teacher of the Year
ST. PAUL Two local teachers are among the list of 75 candidates for this year s Minnesota Teacher of the Year.
Katherine Green is a language arts teacher at Tech as well as a yearbook advisor, and a teacher mentor in the St. Cloud Area School District.
Louise Ziegler is an Early Childhood Special Education Teacher at Hillside in the Sauk Rapids-Rice School District.
This year s program will name the 57th Minnesota Teacher of the Year. The field of 75 will be narrowed to a group of semifinalists in a few weeks, and then down to the list of finalists later in March. The scheduled Teacher of the Year banquet is set for May 2nd at the St. Paul RiverCentre.
Sylvia Lieber, Creative Kindergarten Teacher, Dies at 102
She gave 5- and 6-year-olds an early introduction to classical music and museum art and taught them where milk comes from. She died of complications of Covid-19.,
Sylvia Lieber on her 101st birthday. She taught kindergarten and first grade, hoping to help build an educational and cultural foundation for her students.Credit.via Lieber family
Published Jan. 30, 2021Updated Feb. 4, 2021
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To Sylvia Lieber, there was no reason that the kindergartners and first graders she taught at P.S. 26 in Fresh Meadows, Queens, should not get a head start on understanding the world.