2001 Award of Distinction Winners:
Connecting Schools to Communities through Service Learning - Academy for Learning, Blue Island

Alternative Education Center - Alternative Optional Education Center, Waukegan

Corn to Taco Bell - Bradley East Elementary District 61, Bradley

Economics in Our Community - Bradley East Elementary District 61, Bradley

Are You Wasteful? - Carl Sandburg High School, Orland Park

The IMaST Program - Center for Mathematics, Science and Technology, Normal

Summer of Service - College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn

Business Partners Make Education Real - Crete-Monee 201-U School District, Crete

Power Lunches and Workplace Visits - Danville High School MERIT Academy, Danville

Education-to-Work and Careers - DePue High School Unit District 103, DePue

Curriculum Alignment Project - Education for Employment System 330, Rantoul

Warriors Rampage - Edwards County CUSD 1, West Salem

What Do You Want to Be? - Edwardsville Middle School, Edwardsville

The Institute of P.R.I.D.E. - Gage Park High School, Chicago

Careers on Wheels - Heartland Region EFE 390, Decatur

Greetings Project - Heyworth High School, Heyworth

Exploratory Spanish 2000 - Jacobs High School, Algonquin

Executive for a Day - Kankakee Community College, Kankakee

Limestone Dealership Partnership - Limestone Community High School, Bartonville

MOUS Academy Comes to Lincoln Land - Lincoln Land Community College, Springfield

Maine West Freshman Academy - Maine West High School, Des Plaines

The Engineering Experience - Midwest Central High School, Manito

A.D.I.D.A.S. (All Day I Dream About School) - Mount Pulaski Grade School, Mount Pulaski

Forensic Mock Trial Project - O’Fallon Township High School, O’Fallon

Classroom Assessment and Research - Parkland College, Champaign

Teen Parent Summit - Peoria Educational Region for Employment and Career Training, Peoria

Construction Industry Educator Job Shadow - Peoria Educational Region for Employment and Career Training, Peoria

Portfolio Review - Rend Lake College, Ina

Business and Financial Services Virtual Company - Rock Valley College/Tech Prep/CEANCI, Rockford

Forensics for Kids - Rockton School District 140, Rockton

Career Bags - South Fork District 14, Kincaid

Community College Tech Prep Career Camps - Southwestern Illinois College, Belleville

Jefferson School Career Week - Thomas Jefferson Elementary School, Bellwood

Next Stop---Mars! - Triton College, River Grove

Training for the Underemployed - Triton College, River Grove

Working With Shakespeare - Unity Elementary School, Brookport

Teamwork that Counts - Waukegan High School, Waukegan

Success after High School Transition Conference - Will-Grundy Transition Conference Committee, Plainfield

NetPrep Network Technology - William Rainey Harper College, Palatine

Grammar for Life! - Woodruff High School, Peoria


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