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For Immediate Release August 21, 2009
CPB Awards Grants for Digital Media Education Projects
Washington, DC -- The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) today announced grants to nine public television stations to create content on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) subjects which will be shared among public broadcasting stations and educational organizations.
CPB's Digital Media Resources Production Grant program will fund content on science subjects that are often difficult to teach and learn, with this initial funding round focused on climate literacy for middle school children.
"Public service media has a partnership of trust with teachers and parents and the American people when it comes to education. Through these important digital media grants, we will be working with public service media stations to deliver high quality science, technology, math and engineering content to ensure STEM literacy for our children and all lifelong learners," said Pat Harrison, president and CEO of CPB.
The goals of this grant program are to foster 21st century learning skills in a flexible learning environment; increase station capacity for partnering with state educational organizations, school districts, after-school programs, scientists and museums; and create an economically-sustainable digital media production model for public broadcasters.
"Content produced from these grants will help educators teach difficult subjects through multiple representations of complex concepts," said Dr. Susan Zelman, CPB's senior vice president for Education and Children's Content.
Grantees/Projects
Louisiana Public Broadcasting
Project Title: "Global Warming Consequences and Mitigation"
Grant Amount: $118,777
Maryland Public Television
Project Title: "Changing the Balance: Digital Assets Investigating Climate Change"
Grant Amount: $125, 000
Nebraska Educational Telecommunications Commission (NET Television)
Project Title: "Antarctica's Climate Secrets"
Grant Amount: $125,000
Northern California Public Broadcasting (KQED)
Project Title: "Clue into Climate: A Digital Media-Based Curriculum Unit on Climate Change"
Grant Amount: $97,200
Utah Education Network (KUEN)
Project Title: "Utah Climate Literacy Partnership"
Grant Amount: $125,000
WGBH, Wisconsin ECB, and ThinkTV
Project Title: "Climate Literacy Collaborative"
Grant Amount: $226, 481
WOSU Public Media
Project Title: "What Ice Cores Reveal About Climate"
Grant Amount: $80,655
About CPB
CPB is a private, nonprofit corporation created by Congress in 1967 and is steward of the federal government's investment in public broadcasting. It helps support the operations of more than 1,100 locally-owned and -operated public television and radio stations nationwide, and is the largest single source of funding for research, technology, and program development for public radio, television and related online services.