Calling all volunteers! The Junior League's "Project Omnibus" is now boarding for the following stops: cultural anthropology, mysteries and codes, aerodynamics, and thinking and learning. Passengers will be trained in providing enrichment to elementary students with high potential.
Omnibus will encourage students to develop creative and logical thinking skills and receive practice in problem solving. The students will be exposed to ideas and areas of interest they ordinarily wouldn't encounter in the regular classroom.This enrichment program was developed by the Junior League of Minneapolis and is offered by the Junior League of St. Paul Inc. The Junior League of Salt Lake City, working in cooperation with the State Office of Education and the Wasatch Front Network of Gifted and Talented Coordinators, is sponsoring an Omnibus training seminar on Friday, Oct. 25, from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, Oct. 26, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Union Middle School, 615 E. 8000 South.
Karen Rogers, author of the Omnibus program and a nationally recognized consultant in Gifted and Talented Education, will be the keynote speaker.
Volunteers will work in pairs tutoring groups of 10-14 science or humanities students for a two-hour period per week during the regular school day. The volunteers can choose the unit they feel most comfortable in, whether it be law, artists and imagination, political satire and cartooning or science units such as dissection and sound.
Children who study the mysteries and code unit will spend time learning Egyptian hieroglyphics, Egyptology research and crypotanalysis. The science unit about sound will study sound theory experiments; receiving sound; sending and reproducing sound, noise pollution and deafness.
Other units available are: city planning, economics, the ancients, communications media, animal behavior and the weather.
All curricula have been developed on the Frank Williams Learning Model for Divergent Thinking. The applications of the Williams Model have been written for every activity within the curriculum, and a sheet accompanies each unit showing these applications.
Salt Lake Junior Leaguers making this project possible are: Sara Hofmann, director; Dana Wiest, secretary/treasurer; Mary Hancey, arrangements; Charlotte Kitterer, program; and Linda Zolintakis, publicity.
Parents, teachers and the public are invited. Cost is $15 for the seminar, training manual and lunch. For information call Sara Hofmann at 942-0542 or Connie Love at 942-3830.