FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Nov. 9, 2005
Contact: Anika Mitchell Perkins
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MUW graduate student awarded Toyota TAPESTRY grant

COLUMBUS, Miss. – Pat Smith of Vernon, Ala. and a Mississippi University for Women graduate student in the reading literacy program, recently wrote and received a Toyota TAPESTRY grant.

She wrote the grant as part of her classroom assignments for a graduate education course.

Smith was awarded the $2,500 grant to purchase materials for her classroom as part of a reading and science unit about nocturnal animals.

After receiving the grant and developing the unit she was asked to share her unit with other teachers at the Alabama Science Teacher Convention.

The Toyota TAPESTRY grant program is sponsored by Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc., and is administered by the National Science Teachers Association. Over the past 14 years, this program has awarded more than 550 grants totaling over $5 million.

Toyota TAPESTRY grants are awarded in three categories that include environmental science education, physical science applications and literary and science education.