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Four-year-old Korii Broaden bounded up a stepladder at the Detroit Children’s Museum on Tuesday and gingerly took hold of a small metal nail. “Sink or float?” asked David Holcomb, an educator at the Children’s Museum. “Sink!” chirped Korii’s two dozen summer school classmates.
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Detroit, MI – April 27, 2011 – The Detroit Public Schools Foundation (DPSF) will join an award winning Future City Competition team of middle school students from Robeson/Malcolm X Academy and other area middle school teams as the Engineering Society of Detroit rolls out the results of the “Future Detroit” competition on May 3rd at Compuware Corporation, 1 Campus Martius, in Detroit. The program begins at 9:00am. Media check in at the ESD desk in the main lobby.
The subject of a recent documentary aired on WTVS CH56, the Paul Robeson/Malcolm X students were provided transportation by DPSF, enabling them to bring 28 students to various Future City Competition events in the area. DPSF, to date, has provided funding to allow 300 Detroit Public Schools students to participate in Future City Competition.
Now in its 19th year, the National Engineers Week Future City Competition is an integrated, multidisciplinary, holistic approach to relevant issues and is a strong example of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics) education that addresses national and state academic content standards. The program asks 6th, 7th and 8th grade students from around the nation to team with engineer-volunteer mentors to create — first on computer and then in large, three-dimensional models — their visions of the city of tomorrow. For more details, visit http://www.futurecity.org/
The mission of the Detroit Public Schools Foundation is to raise, manage and steward funds and other resources to support value added programs and activities for the benefit of the Detroit Public Schools and its students. Detroit Public Schools Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit operating independently of the Detroit Public Schools. Visit http://www.detroitpsfoundation.org
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Detroit, MI – April 21, 2011 – The Detroit Public Schools Foundation (DPSF) hopes to
leverage the use of social media to create awareness of key new programs and is offering
a prize to encourage followers to “Tweet them up”. Included in their upcoming spring
appeal mailing is a contest to find the most prolific “Tweeter.” The winner will receive a
Flip UltraHD video camera, courtesy of Office Depot, a DPSF corporate supporter. The
DPSF facebook page will be linked as well, providing more complete connectivity.
Details on the “Tweet In” are available at http://www.detroitpsfoundation.org.
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Detroit Public Schools Foundation President & CEO, Chacona Johnson discusses DPS’ support of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Enrichment and the involvement with the Engineering Society of Detroit’s Future City, Future Detroit program on the Craig Fahle Show on WDET.
Listen to the WDET Craig Fahle podcast by going to this page. Under the WDET Program Archives Heading, first choose the Craig Fahle Show and then select the Wednesday 4-20-11 air date to listen to the broadcast.
Detroit will be featured on the national PBS program Need to Know this week. The weekly public affairs series is focusing on a watershed moment in Detroit’s history–namely, the city’s current efforts to right-size. Detroit Public Television (WTVS Channel 56) has produced and edited a key segment about a Detroit public school (Paul Robeson-Malcolm X Academy) competing for the first time in the semi-finals of the National Engineers’ Week Future City Competition. The Detroit segments are hosted by local correspondent Desiree Cooper.
Need to Know is seen in Detroit Sundays at 12:30 p.m. on Channel 56, with an additional late-night airing this Friday at 11:30 p.m.
Detroit, MI – April 8, 2011 – What will Detroit look like in 2025? Recent media coverage about the downsizing and re-making of Detroit has brought a particular importance to this issue. Thanks to a generous donation from Sun Valley Foods, Inc., the Detroit Public Schools Foundation (DPSF) funded an opportunity for 300 Detroit Public Schools (DPS) students, who take part in the DPS science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics (STEM) after school program, to participate in a competition focused on a Future Detroit.
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DETROIT (WWJ) – With demolition of the old Cass Tech High School underway, the Detroit Public Schools Foundation is looking to raise money by selling bricks from the building.
Among those who will get one is actor/comedian and Cass Tech grad David Alan Grier. He’ll have his name inscribed on a gold brick and will receive it tomorrow.
Not to be forgotten, bricks from Finney and Chadsey High Schools will also be available soon. Money raised from the sale of the bricks will be used for academic programs in the district.
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Detroit, MI – March 14, 2011 – Thanks to a public auction by General Motors and Chevrolet, the first Chevy Volt available to the public was donated to the Detroit Public Schools Foundation (DPSF). Consequently, DPSF has been able to fund a number of programs that focus on science, technology engineering and mathematics (STEM) enrichment in the Detroit Public Schools (DPS). The winning bid was $225,000.
The $225,000 in auction proceeds have been allocated to critical STEM programs, sending 60 DPS elementary and middle school students to compete in the U.S. Chess Federation’s national K-9 championship tournament in Columbus, Ohio on April 14-17 and 30 DPS high school students to compete in the Federation’s national K-12 championship tournament in Nashville, Tennessee on April 28-May 1.
Robotics Program – A $10,000 grant funded by the Volt auction benefits the Detroit International Academy for Young Women robotics program, encouraging more young women to pursue a career in the STEM areas.
Science Fair – Awarding a grant of $6,580 to DPS for students to participate in the 2011 Science and Engineering Fair of Metro Detroit which will be held on March 15-19. Seventy-one DPS schools will be participating in this year’s fair.
Science Quiz Bowl – Awarding a grant of $6,915.40 to Renaissance High Schools for costs relating to participation in the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE) national science quiz bowl competition. The competition will be held in Houston, Texas on April 10-22.
“We were amazed and thrilled by the outcome of the Volt auction,” notes DPSF President and CEO Chacona W. Johnson. “By selectively targeting these important programs, we can continue to energize our student interests in the sciences.”
The mission of the DPSF is to raise, manage and steward funds and other resources to support value-added programs and activities for the benefit of the Detroit Public Schools and its students. DPSF is a 501(c)3 non-profit operating independently of the Detroit Public Schools. Visit http://www.detroitpsfoundation.org
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