[STANDING O] Snipping the blue ribbon on children’s programming

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By Joanna DelBuono

Brooklyn Daily

Boreum Hill

Raise a glass and toast the brand-new Wyckoff Cornerstone Program for kids. The new program opened by HeartShare St. Vincent’s Services will provide a safe place for youth Downtown.

Councilman Stephen Levin (D–Boerum Hill) led the festivities with staff, program participants, the New York Police Department, and members of the local community.

“Typically, our Cornerstone Programs offer tutoring, recreational activities, creative arts, and sports, but we listen very closely to what our young people want and we take it from there,” said Regina Mitchell, who will oversee the new Wyckoff program.

“We are grateful to have this new program location,” said Brooke Rosenthal, vice president of Community Programs.

Standing O is grateful, too!

HeartShare St. Vincent’s community programs, which are funded by NYC Department of Youth and Community Development, nurtured and educated more than 3,000 children through its after-school and summer camp opportunities last year.

Wyckoff Cornerstone Program (280 Wyckoff St. and Third Avenue in Boerum Hill).

Gerritsen Beach PS 194 is getting techy

It’s a win win for the students at PS 194. The Jimmie Johnson Foundation announced that the school is the recipient of the sixth annual Team Up for Technology grant in the amount of $48,000.

Teacher Kathryn Malara nominated the school of its tech makeover. In her nomination letter she said in part, “I do not want the students in my school community to use technology to make Prezis and PowerPoint presentations. What I do want is to have all of my students delve into a myriad of technology opportunities to find their own answers to their own questions. I want them to learn to use technology to raise awareness for causes that are important to them.”

Out of 850 nominations, only 10 schools were selected, and only one — from our fair town — was chosen.

The school plans to use grant money to purchase new laptops, a laptop cart, new printers, and iPads for the Speech and Language and Special Education teachers.

Standing O pal Kathryn added that she couldn’t have done it alone.

“I want to thank Karen Savastano, who helped me during the grant process. My co-teacher and I are an inseparable team and I am so glad that I had her by my side to think out ideas and to calm me down when I got worried about the whole process.”

Principal Joy Mendelsohn added, “There are no words to describe how excited I am about this grant. This grant is a gift that will help us to take our students to new places.”

PS 194 The Raoul Wallenberg School [3117 Avenue W and Knapp Street in Gerritsen Beach, (718) 648–8804].

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