Kindergarten through second-grade students at Oakwood Primary School in South Huntington participated in Connecting Cultures, an ongoing project that uses video conferencing technology to learn about a remote village in Morocco.
The Model Schools program at Western Suffolk BOCES presented a Technology Integration Award for the project to teacher Ms. Linda Cepelak (second, right). The project motivated the students to raise $2,000 to help the village construct a bathroom in its school.
Celebrating the project’s success were (left to right) Ms. Sharon Fellner, Technology Supervisor; Ms. Merryl Rogers, Assistant Superintendent Instruction and Curriculum; Ms. Cepelak, and Ms. Eileen Kerrigan, Oakwood Principal.