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Blythedale Students Win Prestigious Chase Science Award.jpg) Blythedale One of Ten Tri-State Area Schools
Recognized for Innovative Educational Leaps
VALHALLA, NY (March 2010) -- A group of talented and hard working teens from the Mt. Pleasant-Blythedale UFSD were recently presented with a 2010 Chase “Multimedia in the Classroom” Award. The forward-thinking teens developed a website to highlight their research on the Bronx River: Past, Present, and Future. The contest challenged the students to transform their learning environment through technology.
In recognition of the technological leaps taken in local classrooms to enhance learning, ten tri-state area schools, including Blythedale, were honored as winners last week at the Celebration of Teaching & Learning, a premier professional development conference for educators hosted by THIRTEEN & WLIW21. There, students and teachers from the winning schools received special recognition and a $1,000 cash prize from Chase, founding sponsor of the Celebration.
For Blythedale’s team, the victory was especially sweet. Up against 450 competitors, the team was the only winner from Westchester County.
“This is simply an extraordinary achievement for our students and teachers,” said Mt. Pleasant-Blythedale UFSD Superintendent Ellen Bergman. “Our school strives to provide equity and equal access to all students, and this award exemplifies our belief that when students are given opportunities and access to learning, a disability is not a barrier to achievement. Our students, who face such monumental challenges, were able to compete on a level playing field and rise above to win.”
The Chase Multimedia in the Classroom Awards highlight the achievements of individuals using innovative techniques to enhance the K-12 curriculum. Winning submissions utilized various platforms of multimedia, demonstrating how students and teachers alike are using technology to transform and improve the classroom experience.
At Blythedale, students and teachers collaborated and utilized multimedia platforms currently available only as Beta, or test, versions. “It wouldn’t even be accurate to call their work ‘state-of-the-art’ because people aren’t even using it yet,” said Bergman. “This was exemplary practice of teamwork. As one of the teachers said, ‘If one person on the team had not contributed, this project wouldn’t have worked.”
“This year we saw a record number of submissions for this competition, proving to us that not only are advances in technology inevitable but they are a welcomed necessity in the classroom,” said Kimberly Davis, president of the JPMorgan Chase Foundation. “This is why Chase believes it is so important to recognize those who are fostering these advances. We are celebrating the future of innovation through our students and teachers who truly understand how to use these tools to their full educational potential.”
The Mt. Pleasant-Blythedale UFSD winning project can be viewed at bronxriver.info
Pictured, L-R first row: Ganeshi ( 14, Bronx, NY), Sherry-Ann (18, Bronx, NY), Catalin (13, Bronx, NY), and Takia (15, Bronx, NY); L-R back row: Dale Phillips (science teacher), Alex Allen (teaching assistant), Nadiesta Sanchez (science teacher), Corey (18, Wappingers Falls, NY), Rob Troy (social studies teacher), Pam Burke (social studies teacher) and Kijana (15, Bronx, NY).
About Blythedale Children’s Hospital
Founded more than 100 years ago, Blythedale Children's Hospital has been a leader in developing innovative, multi-disciplinary inpatient and ambulatory programs, as well as a community resource for children with a variety of medical concerns and their families. Through its inpatient and day hospital programs, Blythedale Children's Hospital treats more than 300 children daily, making it one of the largest children's services in New York State. In addition, the Hospital provides diagnosis and treatment for hundreds of outpatients with a wide range of medical difficulties. For more information about Blythedale Children's Hospital, visit www.blythedale.org
About WNET.ORG
New York public media company WNET.ORG is a pioneering provider of television and web content. The parent of THIRTEEN, WLIW21 and Creative News Group, WNET.ORG brings such acclaimed broadcast series and Web sites as Worldfocus, Nature, Great Performances, American Masters, Charlie Rose, Wide Angle, Secrets of the Dead, Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, Visions, Consuelo Mack WealthTrack, Wild Chronicles, Miffy and Friends, and Cyberchase to national and international audiences. Through its wide range of channels and platforms, WNET.ORG serves the entire New York City metro area with unique local productions, broadcasts and innovative educational and cultural projects. In all that it does, WNET.ORG pursues a single, overarching goal - to create media experiences of lasting significance for New York, America and the world. For more information, visit www.wnet.org.
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