Terrier Volume 77, Number 1 - Spring 2013 | Page 12

Campus News
A Celebrated Partnership
St. Francis College recently celebrated its partnership with IS 228 David Boody JHS, Brooklyn, with the unveiling of a banner outside the school. The partnership
has been a particularly strong one with seven St. Francis graduates now working as teachers at the school and even more gaining valuable experience as studentteachers while completing their undergraduate work.

Liz Palumbo ’12, Carla Biggs ’12, Education Department Chair Richard Giaquinto, Cathy Hayes (School of One), Jonathan Barger ’11, IS 228 Principal Dominick
D’Angelo, Liz Giacchino ’13, Education Professor and Director of Student Teaching Peter Leibman ’71, Cristina Liberta ’10, Brett Harkins ’13,
John Garuccio ’07, Joseph Brancato ’06, Lou Monti ’06.

Who Wants Pi?

Children’s Champion

Papal Expert

Technology giant Google awarded a $10,000
grant to Dean of Academic Program Development
Allen Burdowski and Information Technology
Professor Esther Klein to develop a workshop
to train teachers how to use the new low-cost
Raspberry Pi computer. The Raspberry is a
full-service computer that costs only $35 and is
smaller than your wallet. This workshop, titled,
“Computers, Computational Thinking, and
Raspberry Pi,” can then be used as an introduction
to computer science for St. Francis Education
Department students.

St. Francis College President Brendan J. Dugan ’68
was awarded the 2013 Children’s Champion Award
by the Child Abuse Prevention Program (CAP