OK - so here is the document describing how to apply to funds. It is interesting that it seems as though it is all oriented to social events and speakers. We are a very small organization and those don't seem like our foci. But if we (you!) made the request for materials in terms of community service - we can teach whatever we develop in a school - that might be a way to conceptualize the need for materials in a way that will be understood.
It seems to me that we have several ideas running here:
technology
museums - including meeting ed staff, etc.
nature related trips
practicing science teaching, seeing, trying more activities
I am happy to help with any of these - certainly I can "teach" additional activities or help you practice them. I can help set up trying these activities with kids. I used to have lots of connections with the major museums when I was in school - but I probably still know a few people who would help accommodate us.
Some of these things would be hard to fit into the two hours every three weeks I asked of you, but my impression is that for most of you joining this group really wasn't about saving the $31.
You are getting my stream of consciousness early morning thoughts here, but I can suggest two interesting trips that are much longer in duration. I am not sure I could go, but I can certainly give you "credit" for them:
Visit Cape May to try to experience the monarch migration
Visit Hawk Mountain where the raptor migration can be viewed
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When I returned to e-mail late yesterday I discovered that Maly had asked for the whole form to be filled out, so I just did it, based on the notes that Courtney had taken. I requested the $800 broken into $500 for books, equipment, etc and $120 for museums and $180 in transportation.
I used language about teaching each other, members of 521, and possibly students in schools, as well as adding material to the website to help justify our costs. (As a friend used to say about applying for grants, "Number of customers served."
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