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Mercer University’s STEM Education
Innovation Lab partnered with the Atlanta
Citizen Review Board (ACRB) over the
summer for a weeklong educator learning
program designed to support teachers in
creating culturally sensitive curriculum
leveraging technology tools for student
engagement. ACRB Educator Fellows
Program participants — including those from
Atlanta Public Schools — will develop and implement curriculum for the 2021-2022 school
year to help students in upper elementary grades through high school understand their legal
rights and build awareness for positively interacting with police. The program’s strategy is
focused on community engagement and awareness related to community policing practices,
police accountability and fostering cooperation among law enforcement, government
agencies, community organizations and residents within the city of Atlanta.
•43D Girls, Inc., the Atlanta nonprofit
that empowers and advocates for young
women, received a $5,000 STEM Action
Grant from Society for Science. The
funding will support the Girls Link Up
Virtual Mentoring Program, which helps
connect underserved girls in the Metro
Atlanta area with resources to help them
explore the world around them and
identify STEAM pathways of interest.
Camilla Tuman, a student at Eloly
Innocents Preparatory School, attended Space Academy at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center
in Eluntsville, AL over the summer. The weeklong educational program promotes science,
technology, engineering and math (STEM), while training students and with hands-on
activities and missions based on teamwork, leadership and problem solving. Camilla spent
the week training with a team that flew a simulated space mission to the International Space
Station, the Moon or Mars and graduated with honors.
Bert’s Big Adventure, a nonprofit organization that provides all-expenses-paid, five-day
journey to Walt Disney World for children with chronic and terminal illnesses and their
families, is now accepting applications and nominations for their 2022 trip. To qualify,
children must be between the ages of 5 and 12, be diagnosed with a chronic or terminal
illness, and have never been to Walt Disney World. The family must prove financial need and
live in the radio listening area of “The Bert Show.” Applications are now available online at
bertsbigadventure.org/nominate-a-child-or-apply.
► Center Parc Credit Union is the
exclusive sponsor of One Love Learning
Foundation’s (OLLF) community garden,
situated on the rooftop of Maynard
Jackson High School. Jackson Park
Farm will provide fresh produce to those
in need in the community as well as to
Kevin Gillespie’s neighboring restaurant,
Gunshow. The garden also supports
the school’s science curriculum as well
as help students fulfill their volunteer
hour requirements. Gillespie is also
mentoring student interns to expand their understanding of the restaurant business and food
preparation.
The Prevention Research Center at Georgia State University has received a one-year,
$500,000 grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to identify
behaviors and solutions to increase COVID-19 vaccine confidence and uptake in the African
American and refugee, immigrant and migrant community in Clarkston. The project aims
to train and deploy “community navigators” representing the various cultural groups living
in Clarkston, including the Burmese, Congolese, Afghan, Somali, Middle East and African
American communities. The navigators will use a peer-to-peer, in-person approach with
residents by conducting listening sessions to hear and address questions and concerns about
the COVID-19 vaccine.
Atlanta-based nonprofit Star-C had to suspend after-school programs in the wake of the
pandemic, pivoting to focus on in-home learning, the digital divide, hunger relief and,
notably, rental assistance through its Eviction Relief Fund (ERF). Originally targeting a
$50,000 crowdfunded fundraise, the ERF has now raised $9.9 million, thus far helping over
3,400 families avoid eviction in 14 counties in Metro Atlanta. un
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