NEWPORT — The Newport Town School was recently selected as the Spring 2016 winner of the Educate/Innovate Grant Program, funded by the Vermont Lottery.
The program will provide 25 iPads to the school in support of their proposal, which was a student-selected project meant to address what they perceive as a problem in their community.
The students will be working with Frontiere Animal Shelter in Orleans to help streamline and promote pet adoptions.
The project will integrate multiple core curriculums as they use video, editing, writing and marketing tools to help the local shelter accelerate pet adoptions over time.
During guidance class, sixth graders researched possible projects before voting on the one that ended up being submitted for the grant.
“Our students are learning the importance of giving back to the community, and what we learned while pitching ideas was that they are really interested in helping animals,” School Counselor Sarah Feldman said.
Four out of the five projects students came up with were based around helping animals.
Students will collect data and monitor their success as they develop the program.
Reviewers with the Vermont Lottery and Vermont Agency of Education say the proposal was a favorite of theirs because it represented a student-identified issue within their community.
Congratulations Newport Town Students! Good job,
and much success as you move forward with your project.
Excellent idea! Congratulations.