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Approximately 200 Oklahomans to
receive help from college fund
Students in several Okmulgee County schools will benefit
soon thanks to a contribution to the American Indian College
Fund.
Congressman Markwayne Mullin, AT&T and the College of
the Muscogee Nation joined together to celebrate AT&Ts
recent $600,000 contribution to the American Indian College
Fund, the nations largest American Indian scholarship organ-
ization. The contribution will support approximately 200
Oklahoma Native American and low-income students as they
work toward high school graduation and advancing their edu-
cation or joining the workforce.
In Oklahoma, impacted TCUs and high schools include
College of Muscogee Nation in Okmulgee, Wilson High
School, Okmulgee High School and Morris High School. Okm
The College Fund initiatives goal is to increase the number City
of American Indian and low-income students who graduate site
from high school. By partnering with tribal colleges and uni- 6th
versities (TCUs) as well as high schools located on or near Onc
Indian reservations, the College Fund connects students to are
programs and supportive services that will help them finish NFC
high school, persist in higher education and thrive in the 21st equ
century knowledge economy. sum
AT&Ts $600,000 contribution will span two years and
serve a total of about 700 Native students in three states

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Arizona, Nebraska and Oklahoma.
American Indians face many unique challenges to getting
an education, and Native youth experience some of the lowest
high school graduation rates nationwide, Cheryl Crazy Bull,
President and CEO of the American Indian College Fund,
said. This support from our longtime collaborator AT&T will
allow the CollegeFund to help more students earn a high
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The Ardmoreite

SUMMER BRIDGE PROGRAM

Student engineers create Rube Goldberg machines

Submitted Content of Pulitzer Prize-win-
ning American cartoon-
Blowing up a balloon ist Rube Goldberg, who
may seem simple to sketched wacky and over-
most people, but Nazima ly complicated contrap-
Yousef isnt most people. tions.
She is one of 52 Univer- Building one of these
sity of Oklahoma incom- machines requires more
ing freshman students than a creative imagina-
who participated in the tion, said Crystal Gar-
Gallogly College of Engi- cia, program director.
neerings AT&T Summer Through the design and
Bridge Program. construction process, stu-
Participants are chal- dents learn the basic skills
lenged to turn a simple of engineering mechan-
task, such as inating a ics such as teamwork,
balloon and then popping resourcefulness and the
it, into a complicated ac- value of experimentation.
tivity by designing and Since its start in 2007,
building a 15-step ma- more than 300 students
chine that does the work have participated in the
for you. Each machine four-week, on-campus
is created in the spirit residential program, giv-
ing participants a head
start in OUs rigorous en-
gineering curriculum and
helping them achieve
math-readiness. They
gain early exposure to
course work; meet fellow
classmates, faculty and
staff; and earn early col-
lege credit. The program
is funded in part by an
endowment from AT&T
and continued support
from Dolese Bros. Co.
College-level classes Xavier Washington, Nazima Yousaf and Tanner Atwood, all participants in the
are more difficult and Gallogly
PHOTOS
College of Engineerings AT&T Summer Bridge Program. SUBMITTED
schedules even in the
summer are more make new friends and mathematical knowl- tionships they developed
packed than I expected, gure out how this is all edge in the AT&T Sum- and academic founda-
said Yousef. Im so glad going to work. mer Bridge Program, tions they built will help
I got this opportunity These students gained said Tom Landers, dean guide them as they face a
to start a little early so I valuable friendships, of the Gallogly College challenging and reward-
could get my bearings, project experiences and of Engineering. The rela- ing future at OU.

STUDENTS AGAINST HUNGER ADULT EDUCATION

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Ada News

Early Childhood Center

receives $40,000 grant
By ERIC SWANSON
Staff Writer

A grant from the Oklahoma

Educational Technology Trust
made it possible for the Ada
Early Childhood Center to buy
new iPads for its students this
year.
The Early Childhood Center
recently received a $40,000
OETT grant to buy the equip-
ment. The grant included
professional development for
teachers, which was provided by
the K20 Center at the University
of Oklahoma and valued at more
than $25,000.
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funds to buy 120 iPads for From left to right: Ada Early Childhood Center teachers Cheyenne Wright, Gracie Nail and Janet
students, an interactive educa- Cearley; Chad Baltimore, technology director for Ada City Schools; Early Childhood Center Principal
tional system known as Osmo Cindy Brady; former curriculum leader Shawna Harrison; and Achieve interventionist Eryn Hansen.
The Early Childhood Center recently received a $40,000 grant for new technology from the Okla-
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purchase will allow the
school to provide one iPad
for every two students.
Were very grateful to
the OETT foundation for
providing this, because its
a tremendous gift, she
said.
Brady said the devices
will helppromote an atmo-
sphere where students are
actively engaged in learn-
ing, known as authentic
learning.
The OETT began in 2001
with a $30 million contribu-
tion from AT & T Oklahoma
to the states public schools,
which was the result of an
agreement between AT & T
and then-Attorney General
Drew Edmondson, during
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the companys transition to
a modern form of regula-
tion, according to an OETT
news release.
The trust said it has
distributed more than $19
million in grants to 269
schools over the past 16
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more than 7,300 teachers
and 105,000 students.
OETT, through its
grants, promotes long-term
change in our schools, said
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the trusts board of trust-
ees. Our goal is to improve
overall student achieve-
ment and learning through
the use of technology and
getting the technology in
students hands.
The trust is administered
by Foundation Management
Inc. and the Communities
Foundation of Oklahoma,
with professional develop-
ment coordinated through
the K20 Center.