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The CMS PTSA offers grants to CMS staff members to help enhance the learning environment at Community Middle School. Financial assistance is provided to staff members with ideas for projects that would benefit their students. The grants cover many different educational areas and usually range from $200 to $500 per project. The PTSA awarded 4 Mini Grants for the 2008-2009 school year totaling $1,472. Mini-Grant recipients are as follows: Faith Scibienski for Be The Change Wrist Bands - $342 The Be The Change Club will celebrate random acts of kindness week (February 9th through the 14th) with special posters, daily announcements and challenges to students and teachers. The mini grant funds will enable the club to purchase Be The Change wristbands which will be given to students and teachers by club members who witness random acts of kindness at CMS. The Be The Change Club seeks to improve the culture of CMS through awareness and challenges which will foster acceptance and celebration of all individuals. CMS Counselors, Lynn Fisher, Colleen Pederson, Faith Scibienski, Ellen Burgess for The Career Game - $500 The mini grant funds awarded to the CMS counselors will provide the necessary funds to update the software for the The Career Game. The Career Game is a workbook that matches students' hobbies, heroes and personal favorites to the universe of job possibilities. Eighth graders utilize this tool prior to high school registration to give them an opportunity to consider the possibilities of career choices. Patrick Lepore for lighting equipment for the television studio - $500 The mini grant awarded to the TV Production department will provide for updated lighting equipment which will enable the studio to have multiple sets at one time. This will greatly enhance the look of the Wake Up Community broadcasts and expand the capability of the studio space for more types of in-house video broadcast. Karen Rosnick for Food for the Hunger Banquet RISK PRISM - $130 The seventh grade group RISK (Reducing Instances of Starvation in Kids) will sponsor a Hunger Banquet to allow banquet guests to simulate a food distribution scenario related to problems of food insecurity. Mini grant funds will be used to purchase the food, beverages and supplies to create teaching materials to raise awareness of the number of hungry and homeless children in our world. Banquet attendees will be randomly separated into three dinner groups. Elegant (10%) will be served on linens with ceramic plates and given a choice of beverage, protein, fresh fruit and vegetables, carbohydrates and desserts. Average (30%) will be served on paper plates and given pizza and juice. Needy (60%) will sit on the floor on blankets and be given only broth and bread. Lastly, students will all be given a Red Cup to remind them of the World Food Programme. Teachers - Please refer to the Forms & Flyers Section of this website for the application for the 2009-2010 school year.

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