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2 The Clackamas Print neyvsed@clackamas. edu Wednesday, May 4, 2011 Mini grants spark new class innovations By James Duncan Associate News Editor Brilliant innovation, a new way of teaching, something that can change the way students interact with their school. These are a few of the things that the Mini Grant for Innovation can help Clackamas Community College achieve. The Clackamas Foundation is working to help change our school for the better by letting creativity take the lead and giving up to $3,000 to those who have the idea. “This is a program that was started in the late 80s by the CCC Foundation Board, and their goal was to help depart ments jumpstart cool program ideas,” said Karen Martini, director of the Clackamas Foundation. “A lot of times, there isn’t money in the college budget to sort of explore something interesting. Faculty members have ideas about something that might be an innovative teaching technique or some kind of cool event to launch on campus or some new way to out reach to the community ... and there just isn’t any money available to try that.” The mini grants are one-time micro loans of no more than $3,000 each. The CCC Foundation started the project in 1988-1989 school year awarding only five grants coming to a total of $4,007. Now it has grown to serving out as much as $30,000 a year in mini grants. ii Without the mini grants there wouldn ’t have been a project, period,99 Casey Sims CCC Counselor Erik Andersen Clackamas Print Casey Sims, a counselor at Clackamas Community College, speaks on the importance of sustainability education and the contribution of the mini grant. “It’s basically seed money for new projects, new ideas,” said Janet Meister, the foundation’s department secretary. “We look for things that are innovative; we don’t like to fund requests that would normally be funded through college bud get... like desks, furniture and things like that.” One of the more recent success stories of the Mini Grant for Innovation is the Clackamas Repertory Theatre. “I think the first one was to pay for someone to do some grant writing to get the thing going and then we supported them I believe in the next season. Now they’re completely self-supporting and they do three big productions every year,” said Martini. “Their ticket sales are going great; they’re getting a lot of sponsor ship.” The seed money that the grant provided gave the theater the kick start to become self-sufficient. The list of successful pro Clarification The Clackamas Print 19600 Molalla Ave. Oregon City, OR 97045 503-594-6266 Co-Editors-in-Chief; Kayla Calloway Erik Andersen News Editor: Brian Baldwin* Associate News Editor: James Duncan Sports Editor: Robert Morrison Associate Sports Editor: John Howard grams started by the foundation islstì gering. Another one of the programs i * the foundation is supporting is a pro] by David Arter in the Science Depart! an online homework tutorial for che J È students that gives immediate feedbfl I you’re studying for tests. Arter has fl I oped an entire module to help stfl I stay up to date with the class. fl “Without the mini grant there wojlfl have been a project, period,” said Sims, a counselor at CCC. fl Sims and supporters from departments on campus have staflfl project for students and the coltegli project is to convert a golf cart to l^H gen and electric power. I “I’m really interested in em^K technologies and how it applies to^fl transportation,” said Sims. “My daflet mentioned when he was visiting ini JI that he had seen the idea of a compì L air car where you compress air and ifl |ji ers a vehicle. We looked online anfl ¡¡r some examples of that, which I tfl I was pretty neat. But then every engifl || spoke with said that it wasn’t really fl ol so I changed the idea to say ‘Wellfl ; other technologies are emerging?’” fl (e “Electric cars certainly have fl around, hydrogen as well. I talked | S some of the different faculty members! some of them got back to me aboi | Io interested in doing a project and .1 os of us, Bob Delgatto, Rick Lockwol p Abe Fouhy and myself, we decided u] | hydrogen to recharge the electric bfl ¡rf in an electric golf cart would be fl s, project to tackle that would comfl 11 couple different technologies and | students a good experience working i )S both.” The golf cart is expected to ba ished spring term of next year. A cm working on converting the engine U on hydrogen and a machining ida building the mounting for the engifl | Sims had some advice to give fl person who would like to apply for|i grant. “When you write a projefl T this a student’s focus has to be tied to economy in such a way that it will 1 students when they’re in a job intfl ITC Give them an opportunity to talkfll what they’ve accomplished and mafl a leg up for the job,” he said. fl The power of the Mini Grfl it Innovation lets anyone on campus! It! to get help in exploring an innovati! in of doing something. Whether it is ‘a event on campus or the start-up to I 1 new class, your innovation can find! L ing with the foundation. I j, “It’s one of the programs we real ||e good about,” said Martini. “It’s sol i our foundation board really loves fl - process of awarding these grants fort helps them understand better what fl ~ lege does and what our departments^ ■ to. It’s like an added bonus in the^flj process, just the education that pec^K about what’s going on here. So it’^fl one; we love it.” I To contact the Clackamas Fou^fl call 503-594-3132. 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