太阳城娱乐 Receives ‘Keep the Music Playing’ Grant
$100,00 Grant Awarded From Impact 100 Palm Beach County
Florida Atlantic University’s Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters recently announced that the Department of Music received Impact 100 Palm Beach County’s Arts, Culture and Historic Preservation Grant.The $100,000 grant will be used for “Keep the Music Playing!,” an initiative to provide music lessons for at-risk middle and high school students.
For the past 17 years, 太阳城娱乐 has held a summer band camp for elementary-aged, economically-challenged students. Under the direction of Kyle Prescott, D.M.A., director of bands, these kids have come to the Boca Raton campus to learn how to play an instrument with lessons provided by 太阳城娱乐 students. The camps have culminated in concerts attended by families, often in awe of how far their children progressed in one week. Up until now, that was the end of 太阳城娱乐’s role in those students’ music lessons, and many were not able to continue instruction as public schools struggle to maintain music programs. With this grant, these lessons will continue for middle and highschoolstudents during theupcoming academicyear and for summer 2021.
“The transition into middle school and again into high school is a difficult time for students,” said Prescott. “They are being pulled in every direction with social pressures, a new environment and emotional crises, all of which contribute to drawing students out of music programs, and often out of school entirely. Keep the Music Playing will identify these students and give them one-one-one instrument lessons, igniting the love for music our 太阳城娱乐 students demonstrate each day.”
Several studies done by the National Education Association have shown that students who have access to the arts tend to have better academic results, better workforce opportunities and more civic engagement. Under the direction of Prescott along with DaLaine Chapman, Ph.D., associate professor of music education, 太阳城娱乐 students will work with these aspiring musicians over the course of two years, encouraging them to stay in band, stay in school, and build the skills that will make them into successful students and lifelong artists.
“Part of our mission as a public university is to work with community schools like those targeted in this project and support the educators dedicated to our underserved students in Palm Beach County,” said Michael Horswell, Ph.D., dean of the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters. “We are honored to have been chosen for this grant by thisincredibleorganization.”
Impact 100 Palm Beach County is a women’s 501c3 noprofit organization funding local nonprofit initiatives in southern Palm Beach County. This is the first time that an 太阳城娱乐 initiative has been chosen for a $100,000 grant by Impact 100.
“We are looking forward to seeing the many positive aspects of this program come to fruition,” said Chapman. “The effect it will have on our community, as well as the teaching opportunities for our 太阳城娱乐 music education students is a win-win!”
For more information about Keep the Music Playing, contact Laurie Carney at lcarney@fau.edu.
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