Newly Elected Directors Join The Blue Ribbon Foundation.

In December of 2020, four new Directors were unanimously elected to the Board of The Blue Ribbon Foundation (BRF), a supporting organization of The Chapel School (TCS) in Bronxville. They include Sheridan Denfeld, Kim Coley-Thomas, Sarah Darwin and Adrienne Stewart.

After a very successful end-of-year appeal was completed, the Board, including its newest members, then reviewed a series of grant requests and awarded The Chapel School a $5,000 Grant for much-needed Technology Upgrades as follows:

· Securing a School License for Pear Deck, a flexible online platform that enables ease of sharing content and curriculum, seamless integration with Google, support for flipped and blended learning and enhancing student engagement.

· Purchasing Fluency and Fitness Platforms and Task Cards for Grades K-3, providing fun ways for primary and lower grade students to practice their skills while exercising and moving their bodies.

· Adding SamLabs Learn-to-Code Classroom Alpha Kits to The Chapel Middle School Tech Lab's inventory which was started by the Blue Ribbon Foundation in 2019-2020.

· Underwriting costly classroom upgrades (cameras, tripods, computers, etc.) needed to outfit all TCS K-8 classrooms with live-streaming capabilities for remote learning.

"Teachers and students today are doing their best in the face of unprecedented challenges," commented BRF President Kristin Londal. "We are so pleased to be able to support them in their heroic efforts."

For more information about The Chapel School, please visit www.thechapelschool.org, and for more information about The Blue Ribbon Foundation, please visit www.brf-ny.org.