During today's annual awards banquet, the Maryland Student Service Alliance , a partnership of the Student Community Service Foundation and the Maryland State Department of Education, inducted 15 Maryland teachers to the student-service Fellows program. The Fellows program recognizes outstanding teachers for their work in motivating and guiding students toward meaningful service-learning projects. To meet Maryland's graduation requirements, students must participate in service-learning projects, applying academic skills to community problems.
Projects vary in size and scope.
Middle school students in Frederick County created books for and read to at-risk elementary students. An advanced placement biology class in Prince George's County wrote and performed a play that addressed public fears and misconceptions associated with gene therapy. The awards banquet marks the seventh class of Fellows named to the program, which now consists of 94 active Fellows from each of Maryland's 24 school districts.