WAMC Education Director Receives Capital District Council for the Social Studies 2008 Award

ALBANY, NY (05/01/2008)(readMedia)-- Maryanne Malecki, WAMC Northeast Public Radio Education Director, has been named the 2008 recipient of the Neiderberger Award, presented by the Capital District Council for the Social Studies. The award - named in honor of Robert Neiderberger, a social studies teacher at the former campus school at the University at Albany - recognizes educators who have made exceptional achievements and contributions to social studies education in the Capital Region. The award will be presented at the Council’s Annual Awards Dinner on My 15th at the Italian-American Community Center in Albany, New York.

Malecki is the project coordinator for WAMC’s award-winning Youth Media Project: Student Town Meetings, heard regularly throughout the year on WAMC’s afternoon program, The Speakers’ Corner. She has prepared and developed over 60 programs in the series in the past three years, working with public high school teachers and students from Queensbury, Mohonasen, Duanesburg, Troy, Tech Valley High, Albany, Liberty Partnership, Hoosick Falls, Berlin, Lansingburgh, Waterford-Halfmoon, Lake George, Capital Region BOCES New Visions Law and Government Program, Coxsackie-Athens, Catskill, Rensselaer, Berlin, Schoharie, and Berne-Knox-Westerlo. By connecting literacy and critical thinking skills with students’ worlds in a meaningful way, WAMC’s Student Town Meetings encourage young people to become part of the public radio audience and active participants in the democratic process. The project is made possible through support from the Educational Foundation of America, the Howard and Bush Foundation in honor of Margaret Mochon, and Jack and Connie Hume.

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