Salvation Army After-School Program – This program will kick off again this month.  It consists of helping the elementary students with their homework assignments on Mondays throughout the school year.  Barbara Hunsicker and Julie Brandle will lead the project.  They will be looking for Rotarian volunteers to participate in this worthwhile effort.  It is an opportunity to really make a difference.
 
 
Flash Drives for CrouseMost Crouse Elementary students do not have access to a computer in their home.  When they work on computer based assignments at the school their work must be stored on flash drives which are shared with other students.  It is up to the teachers to keep records on the student data stored on each drive.   Steve Shechter has just contributed several hundred flash drives to the school.  This will enable teachers at the school to assign one drive per student, which eliminates a lot of headaches and provides a big assist to teachers and students.​
 
Newtown Roundtable  Our club was contacted recently by Sandy Hook Promise, an organization from Newtown Connecticut (where the shooting tragedy took place).  They requested help from Rotary in setting up a meeting this month with community leaders from the Akron area, and we agreed to do so.  The meeting will take the form of a roundtable discussion centered on how to protect our children from gun violence, and steps being taken elsewhere to address this problem.​
 
Dictionary Project   Planning for this project will commence this month under the leadership of Samantha Coldwell and a co-captain yet to be named.  This will be the fourth year for the project which provides a dictionary for each grade three student in the Akron Public School system.  As plans progress the project team will be seeking volunteers to assist with actual distribution of the dictionaries.
 
 
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