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$240,000 to support innovative classroom projects

Deadline: April 30, 2013

Over the last 15 years, ING Unsung Heros has given nearly $3.5 million in grants to educators through its "Unsung Hereos" program, which supports the iuse of new methods and techniques to improve learning. Each year, 100 educators in grades k-12 are selected to recieve an additional $5,000 , $10,00 or $25,000. last year's top grant wine, Rebecca brewer of Troy High School in Troy, Mich., won for her project "Mini-med School: Simulating Surgeries." The project was designed to move 11th aand 12th grade biology students from simply dissecting specimens to performing mock Surgical procedres on the specimans' organs.

Click here to access the ING Application