Birchwood receives two grants for the Preschool

Thanks to Director of Advancement Michelle Ehlert, The Bruening Foundation and The Hershey Foundation each awarded Birchwood a $10,000 grant for our preschool. The Bruening grant enabled us to design and furnish the classroom, and the Hershey grant made it possible to construct and equip the preschool playground. Our thanks to Rhonda Franklin for her invaluable help with the interior design and furniture, our maintenance staff for construction and painting, Ben Shumway for landscape support, Peter Debelak for landscape design research, and for Kathleen’s expert work out tting the room, and Christine’s endless research and design decisions.

Broadcom Masters Semifinalist

Congratulations go to Dhweeja D. This is the second year in a
row that she was chosen as a Broadcom Master seminalist.
Seminalists were selected from more than 1,460 applicants.
Dhweeja qualied to enter the Broadcom MASTERS by placing
in the top 10 percent of the participants at the Northeastern Ohio
Science and Engineering Fair (NEOSEF) at Cleveland State
University (CSU).

PBS Kids Go Writing Contest

Ehren C’s story Tacky Turkey’s Big Adventure placed 3rd in
the nation in the 2012 PBS Kids Go rst grade writing contest.
Way to go Ehren!

Governor's Thomas Edison Award for third consecutive year

Once again Birchwood School received the Governor’s Thomas
Edison Award for Excellence in STEM education along with
Birchwood’s science and math teachers Linda Brown  and
Charles Debelak respectively for the third consecutive year.
They were Greater Cleveland’s sole recipients of the award for
their accomplishments during the 2011-2012 school year. Great
job Birchwood, Ms. Brown and Mr. D.