Members of the Women's Preschool STEM Committee were joined by volunteers from Johnson & Jonson's WiSTEM2D employee group for an April activity that explored the properties of sound. Children experimented with rulers, looms strung with rubber bands and different sized tuning forks. In additiion to making different types of sound...
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Preschool students at John F. Kennedy Elementary School learned about Pi and how we use it in everyday life. They measured the diameter of various sized circles and used the "magic" Pi formula to figure out the circumference, which they then graphed using yarn and rulers.
Our first Women United reception included featured speaker Pamela Hernanzez, princial at John F. Kennedy Elementary School. Ms. Hernandez spoke about the importance of investing in early childhood development and the positive affect that the women in the WU Preschool STEM committee have had on children in her preschool program.
THANK YOU to everyone who braved the frigid temperatures to join United Way at our annual Martin Luther King Day of Service. Held at the Community Center on Brighton Avenue in Perth Amboy, this year's volunteers assembled financial stability information, incluidng VITA, to be distributed to area residents. Thank you...
A group from Rutgers University dedicated part of their Winter break to volunteering for United Way in the community. Activities included to reading with children at a local Head Start program as well as volunteering as classroom helpers at JFK Elementary School in Jamesburg, working with pre-school and kindergarten classes. As you...
Volunteers worked with our pre-schoolers at JFK Elementary School in mid-December to figure out how different shapes and objects could help to build the highest tower. Plastic cups and popsicle sticks worked great, even paper plates, but pom-poms were determined to be "too squishy" to hold anything.
Photos from DuPont’s 2018 gate collection for Gifts of the Season…..Santa’s elves are on duty! The collection was arranged by the company’s Site Community/Communication Team. In the first picture from the left are Paul Poltrictzky, Nichol Reinhold, Kathie Hoffman, Unnati Shah, Catherine Mistretta, and Dave Kriskowski. Hot...
UWCJ Board member Maurice Williams was recently feted at a 90th birthday celebration. Ms. Williams retired as principal at the Paul Robeson Community School in New Brunswick. She dedicated her career to literacy and the arts.
A fund in honor of Ms. Williams...
Volunteers from Bristol Myers Squibb spent time volunteering at the Veteran's Home in Menlo Park this November. Activities included interacting with residents during their morning social time, assisting with congntive and physical activites and visiting with residents in the dementia ward.
Members of the Women's Pre-School STEM Committee kicked off the fall 2018 school term with a graphing activity using acorns and pinecones. They also read the book "Leaves" and talked about the fall season. The children counted acorns and pinecones into containers and drew a bar graph with the number of items in each container.
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