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Each January, we feature students from Intown’s public schools, private schools and colleges who have given back to their community in a significant way. Over the last seven years, we’ve featured students who have created their own nonprofits, have given up summer vacation to work domestically and abroad to help the less fortunate and one even helped build a library by collecting books.

The 10th annual 20 Under 20 will appear in our January 2018 issue and we childhood education, plans to open the center on the campus of D.H. Stanton Elementary School after raising more $8.4 million.

The environmentally friendly building will serve around 200 children and their families, and will mark Sheltering Arms’ are now seeking nominations of students ages 19 and younger who have committed themselves to service to the community. Nominations are welcome from teachers, counselors, administrators, parents, siblings, fellow students or community leaders. Here’s the information we need:

• Nominator (name, relationship to nominee and contact information)

• Nominee (Name, age, grade, school, parent or guardian names, contact information)

• Characteristics and service: Please provide a paragraph describing why this nominee deserves recognition. Include service projects, goals, interests and areas of interest to help illustrate your point.

The deadline for nominations is Nov. 15. Please email your nominations to editor Collin Kelley at collin@atlantaintownpaper.com.

16th location in metro Atlanta. The center will address a family’s needs from an educational, health, social capital and economic perspective.

“We’re excited about the new center at D.H. Stanton because it expands our capacity to give more children, regardless of background, the opportunity for a top-notch early education, childhood and future,” says Blythe Keeler Robinson, president and CEO of Sheltering Arms.

Robinson adds, “Eighty-five percent of a child’s brain structure is developed by age three, and what they experience up to that point already has a profound effect on their educational, social and physical potential. Our goal is to transform early childhood education in a way that not only builds stronger children, but stronger families and communities as well.”

Organizations such as Invest Atlanta, the City of Atlanta’s Economic Development Authority and Bank of America have provided support for the center. Additional contributions include a lead gift from the Joseph B. Whitehead Foundation, along with support from the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, the James M. Cox Foundation, the Marcus Foundation and the Tull Charitable Foundation.

“Bank of America Merrill Lynch is proud to provide $3 million in New Markets Tax Credit equity to Sheltering Arms to help fund the construction of the new D.H. Stanton learning center,” says Mary Thompson, senior vice president of Community Development Banking at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. “Sheltering Arms’ mission of serving working families by providing high-quality, affordable child care and education and comprehensive support services fits with the bank’s goal to create stronger communities through lending, investing and giving.” remarkable faith ● service ● academics ● joy

For more information, visit shelteringarmsforkids.com.

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Education Briefs

Atlanta Public Schools officials handed out more than 1,500 free hotspots, smartphones and tablets to students in 12 of the district’s high schools after being selected to participate in a national program designed to help bridge the digital divide for almost half of the district’s students in five years. The Sprint 1Million Project is a five-year program that will connect one million low-income high school students who do not have internet access at home. APS is one of 119 school districts in 32 states participating in the first year of the project. By year five of the program, about 25,000 APS students will have access to one of the connected devices.

East Lake resident Jaila Allen received national recognition as one of just five students in Georgia and 225 students nationwide who participated in the 2017 Bank of America Student Leaders program. The summer youth employment initiative connects high school students to employment, skills development and service. Jaila completed an eightweek internship with the East Lake Foundation, a nonprofit established to bring new economic and academic opportunities to the East Lake neighborhood. Coincidentally, Jaila was part of the Drew Charter High School’s inaugural graduating class of 2017.

Inman Middle School in Virginia-Highland received new pedestrian safety measures thanks to a partnership between Atlanta Public Schools, FedEx and Safe Kids Worldwide. The measures include an overhead flashing beacon, curb extensions (also called “bulb-outs”) that allow additional room for pedestrians, and ADA ramps at a busy intersection near the school. The project was part of Safe Kid Worldwide’s Safe School Zone program that identifies and makes long-term environmental modifications to improve child pedestrian safety and decrease child pedestrian-related injuries and deaths.

Behind the Wheel

Safe driving app for teens created by Shepherd Center

The Buckhead-based Shepherd Center has developed a free mobile app that will guide parents on how to better teach their teenagers to become safe drivers.

Partnering with the Georgia Governor’s Office of Highway Safety (GOHS) and IT management consulting firm CapTech, the Shepherd Center created the app called AutoCoach.

AutoCoach tracks training hours, as well as night driving hours, which in Georgia is a prerequisite for obtaining a driver’s license. The app’s curriculum is applicable in all 50 U.S. states. AutoCoach is available as a free download in the Apple App and Google Play stores.

“With motor vehicle crashes being the leading cause of death for teens in our country, we must make sure our youngest drivers receive the proper training before they get behind the wheel,” said Harris Blackwood, director of the Georgia Governor’s Office of Highway Safety. “It has been a great pleasure to partner with Shepherd Center and CapTech in developing this first-of-its-kind, comprehensive drivers’ education app that will help parents, grandparents and other adults provide training in a manner teens will be able to learn and use when they begin driving on their own.”

Features of AutoCoach include a customizable parent-teen agreement, a graduated driver’s licensing quiz by state, distraction notifications, a driving log and a 10-chapter curriculum for parents based on best practices.

Learn more at shepherd.org/auto-coach.