Children’s Trust Fund Board to Meet

The Michigan Children’s Trust Fund (CTF) board will hold a special meeting
Monday, December 8, 2008 at 1:30 p.m. at DTE Energy, 101 South Washington Square, Suite 700, in Lansing. Board chair Nancy Moody will preside over a discussion of the executive director’s position. The meeting is open to the public.

Michigan CTF

CTF is a statewide non-profit organization dedicated to the prevention of
child abuse and neglect. CTF works in partnership with its 72 local
councils to serve all of Michigan’s 83 counties. Local councils are
independent, community-based organizations

Michigan

that identify needs and
facilitate collaborative prevention programs for children and families in
their communities. The CTF board is administered through Michigan
Department of Human Services. Since 1982, the fund has raised over $60
million and has provided support to more than six million children and
families.

For more information, please go to www.michigan.gov/ctf

Scholarship Winner Announced

The OMIA Foundation, staff, families, students, and benefactors

Pamela Jo

would like to congratulate Megan Root as the recipient of the 2008 Down the River Scholarship in memoriam of “Pamela Jo from O-hio!”

The scholarship committee was thrilled to receive Megan’s application and surprised by how aligned her enthusiasm is with Pam’s.  There simply wasn’t a more qualified, accomplished, and promising applicant in the pool.

Hailing from Kenton, Ohio Megan and Pam share the passion to learn through continued education.  Megan now attends Ohio Northern University

ONU logo

with plans to study Pharmacology.  We thank Megan for her application package and appreciate those who cast recommendations for her.

On behalf of the OMIA Foundation, congratulations Megan and keep on learning!

Science Raps!

This stuff is great! From our friends at MSU in East Lansing, Michigan comes “The Large Hadron Rap” and other great scientific adventures. An awesome way to get your students excited about learning science…

We’d love to post all the videos at OMIAfoundation.org through our blogs, and we may, but in the meantime you might want to support their endeavors by visiting (and subscribing) to this group’s youtube station here. Or, read more about the group at CNN here.  Enjoy!

Science Days “Launch”

Science Day

---

Fun is a science! Do you want to put a “jolt” into your everyday science lessons? Invite the OMIA Foundation to your class for a special Science Day. We bring unique, exciting, and invigorating lessons to you to pep up your class and make the study of science “electric” again. Science is one of the few subjects that is taught at every level from kindergarten to high school. Each year, there is a certain focus on the study of science. From medicine to genetics to electricity to the scientific method to physics: the OMIA Foundation can make science fun again.

If you’re anything like the staff at the OMIA Foundation, you’ve had that one science teacher in your life that reminded you a lot of Mr. Wizard*. And, if you’re anything like us, you wished that everyday studying science was like your time spent with that special teacher. Well, you’re in luck. Every day that’s an OMIA Science Day is like a day with that special, exciting, and super fun science teacher. Get your students “charged” up “electrified.” Invite the OMIA Foundation to host a Science Day in your classroom today!

---

* Mr. Wizard was a great man who taught science to children through a popular television series. Mr. Wizard is no longer with us but we suggest you check out his work on [wikipedia.org] by click [here]. Also, try googling “Bill Nye the Science Guy” and “Beakman’s World”.