GRANTS GO TO SCHOOL PROGRAMS; FOUNDATION GIVES $27,000.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Daily News Staff Writer A planetarium planetarium, optical device used to project a representation of the heavens onto a domed ceiling; the term also designates the building that houses such a device. A modern planetarium consists of as many as 150 motor-driven projectors mounted on an axis. telescope, outdoor science camps, keyboards for a school music program and cameras to document a desert habitat were among the items purchased with $27,000 in grants from the Palmdale School District's fund-raising arm. The Palmdale Education Foundation's fund-raising activities this year included a sellout concert featuring saxophonist Dave Koz at Highland High School Highland High School or Highlands High School may refer to: In the United States:
Baron Lloyd Webber of Sydmonton, Lloyd Webber called ``A Taste of Broadway'' at the Palmdale Cultural Center. ``We are just happy to make the money available,'' said Diana Beard-Williams, foundation director. ``We hope next year we have an even greater source of funds for the students' benefit.'' The grants, which were awarded at the board of trustees' meeting last week, bring the total funds awarded this school year by the foundation to $40,800. The biggest single amount awarded was $6,000 to send more than 400 third-graders to the Big Rock Creek outdoor science camp in Valyermo. The foundation funded the same program earlier this year. Other items included $2,500 to buy a telescope to be used by Learning Plaza students at the district's planetarium, $2,500 to buy piano keyboards for the music laboratory program at Tamarisk tamarisk (tăm`ərĭsk), shrub or small tree of the genus Tamarix, native chiefly to the Mediterranean area and to central Asia. The plants are often heathlike and thrive in arid and coastal regions. School, and $2,000 to buy software for math and language arts programs at Tumbleweed tumbleweed, any of several plants, particularly abundant in prairie and steppe regions, that commonly break from their roots at maturity and, drying into a rounded tangle of light, stiff branches, roll before the wind, covering long distances and scattering seed as School. A grant of $1,741 will help pay for curtains and accessories for the stage at the Cactus School cafeteria, $1,522 will be used for a public address system for the Barrel Springs School performing arts program, and $1,030 will buy cameras for Learning Plaza students to take pictures of plants and animals Plants and Animals are a Canadian indie-rock band from Montreal, comprised of guitarist-vocalists Warren Spicer and Nic Basque, and drummer-vocalist Matthew Woodley.[1] They are signed to Secret City Records. at the school's desert tortoise desert tortoise see gopherus agassizii. habitat and bird sanctuary. Grants of $1,000 each will go toward replacing old books at Tumbleweed School, books for a reading program at Cactus School, and language arts and math tutors for special-education students. A $1,000 grant also will be awarded to the Music Express choral group at Barrel Springs School. Other grants included $900 to buy a spotlight and microphones for Joshua Hills School's performing arts program, $804 to buy seven sets of children's Encyclopaedia Britannica for Ocotillo School, $760 to establish a peer counseling and conflict resolution program at Tamarisk School, $500 to help buy athletic uniforms at Juniper Intermediate School, $300 each for the PTAs at eight schools and the South Antelope Valley PTA PTA or parent-teacher association: see parent education. Council, $275 for Cimarron School's performing arts program, and $150 to Highland High School's wrestling team booster club for its support in putting on the Koz concert. |
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