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Nine Faculty-initiated outreach projects won nearly $370,000 in new or added support this year from the Chancellor's Outreach Advisory Board, reported Joe Castro, executive director of campus outreach activities.
A few examples of where the funds are going: Sue McLeod, chair of the Writing Program, garnered more than $51,500 to provide writing support services to 9th and 10th grade students in all of UCSB's partnership high schools. Lecturers Heather Horn and Ilene Miele will assist her.
Brad Paden, associate professor of mechanical and environmental engineering, joined with Phyllis Brady and Bob Cota of the MESA program to pull in $55,000 for what they called the "ROBO-Challenge Project." It is a way "to make math fun," explained Cota, as students are shown how to design, build, and program robots for competitions (sometimes known as combat). Students and teachers from high schools in Santa Maria, Filmore, and Santa Paula will participate.
Sociologist Denise Segura, and Richard Duran and Mary Brenner of the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education combined forces to net almost $76,800 for enhancement of local ENLACE activities. This Kellogg Foundation-funded program fosters support among Latino families for keeping their youngsters in school and headed to college, particularly UC. The new Faculty Outreach Grant (FOG) funnels expanded support into Isla Vista School for two years rather than the one-year terms of the other grants.
"Castro noted that the "Kids in Nature" program, sketched in the Feb. 4, 2002 issue of 93106, also received an extra $10,000 to add to the $40,000 they already had for 2002-03 school year activities at Sedgwick Natural Preserve.
Fourteen FOG proposals totaling about $1 million were received this round.
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