Osbornville Elementary School Wins $10K OceanFirst Grant To Create Media Studio

The Brick Township Board of Education praised a group of teachers and administrators at Osbornville Elementary School for its success in winning a $10,000 grant from the OceanFirst Foundation.

The grant, part of the foundation’s Model Classroom initiative, was one of 15 handed out recently by the OceanFirst Foundation, which had 73 schools from Monmouth and Ocean counties that applied for the grant.

Osbornville’s Media Center will be transformed into a Digital Media Studio for research, study, collaboration, and global connection, according to Patricia Lorusso, who chaired the committee that applied for the grant. An Active touch screen will be available to project lessons and student work. Digital booths/studios will be designed and equipped with MacBook desktops loaded with photo and video editing software along with multimedia speakers. A green screen will be on the wall of the “recording studio” with lighting, microphones and video cameras for taping. A film club will use the space to create movies to share globally.

“This is an outstanding achievement,” board president Susan Cantillo said, as she and board member Larry Reid presented the grant committee and Osbornville Principal Kathy DiGrigoli with certificates commending them on winning the grant.

(PHOTOS: Top, Board member Larry Reid and Osbornville Elementary School‘s Pat Lorusso (the grant committee chair), Principal Kathy DiGrigoli, Brett Novick, Tracey Steigerwald, Candi Rivera, Nancy Evans and Theresa Bonk, listen as board president Sharon Cantillo praises their work in winning the grant. Committee member Chris Bautista was absent. Below, Brick Superintendent Walter Uszenski, left, joins staff receiving the award at the OceanFirst Foundation’s grant awards dinner.)