Sentences with phrase «of meaningful projects»

Over my years of painting and repurposing furniture for people, I've gotten to take on lots of meaningful projects.

Students are engaged in academic and discovery lessons with many community partnerships where they make personal connections; take part of meaningful projects that bring excitement to their learning.

Please contribute and be a part of this meaningful project!

Additionally, it includes the «test prep» within the context of a meaningful project.

Not exact matches

«We did that review by increasing engagement with communities, by meaningful consultation with Indigenous Peoples, by looking at the science and the evidence and also looking at the project in the context of our climate plan, and we approved that project,» she said in Victoria.

After a couple of years, despite my best efforts, this project started to feel meaningful.

«With our forecast projecting output growth to slow below potential in 2020, the inversion of the yield curve would be a meaningful signal regarding the specter of a looming recession.»

Many of them offer telecommuting, they are fast paced, always innovating and allow them to work on meaningful projects that have an impact on society.

Our team of industry experts are committed to helping investors participate in meaningful projects by providing creative solutions, excellent customer service, and competitive returns.

Her social interactions during the election were certainly meaningful, a goal of Facebook's fix - it project, but not in a good way.

Private network startups are still in their early stages of development, and projects initiated by large companies are unlikely to have a meaningful impact on corporate earnings in the near term.

It sounds crazy, but I spent three days at St. Bernard Abbey in Cullman, Alabama as part of my «biblical womanhood» project last year, and it was one of the most meaningful times of prayer and contemplation I've ever experienced.

Thank you for those meaningful and deep words, Sasha - they're very much needed, especially right now as I continue to struggle / journey through this life of mine and try to figure out who I am, who I want to be, who I can be, what I want to do, what I want to stand for, and so forth < 3 Now, on a different note, I'm curious to hear more about your projects soon, and, as far as breakfast goes, my go - to is good ol' oatmeal with a little bit of oat milk, flaxseeds and an apple (tea on the side, of course!)

Being a Crawford Fund Scholar provided a wonderful opportunity to meet and hear from a diverse group of people passionate about agriculture and food security, reminded me of the importance of collaborative research projects and reinforced my desire to make a meaningful contribution to agriculture's future.

How2Recycle is a project of the Sustainable Packaging Coalition ®, a membership - based group that brings together business, educational institutions, and government agencies to collectively broaden the understanding of packaging sustainability and develop meaningful improvements for packaging solutions.

Although the difficulty of their job was tempered by Wigan's inability to create anything meaningful up front, Johan Djourou and Laurent Koscielny were in complete control at the back an their confidence projected onto the rest of the team.

The Sandals Foundation funds projects in three core areas: education, community, and the environment, in an effort to play a meaningful role in the lives of the Caribbean communities in which they operate.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

As an inexpensive, simple, unique, educational, and meaningful service opportunity, our diapers are being sewn by families, sewing clubs, youth groups, Eagle Projects, Angel Mother grief support organizations, and churches of all religious denominations.

They Include: * Individuals, families, and corporate or community groups * Students, parents, professionals, and retirees * Seasonal, weekly, occasional, or one - time volunteers Depending on their interests, experience, and the time they have available, volunteers contribute to Mass Audubon in a variety of meaningful ways — welcoming visitors to the sanctuaries, maintaining trails, tending gardens, submitting wildlife observations, educating people of all ages, assisting with ecological management projects.

In the letter to Cuomo, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, Charlene Nimmons, the chief executive officer of Public Housing Communities writes that project labor agreements, or PLAs, «have failed the public housing community by denying its residents opportunities to gain meaningful construction work in and around their homes.»

«We have successfully incorporated masses into all our policies and programmes as many of our projects are designed to banish poverty, hunger, unemployment and as well make life more meaningful and abundant for the citizenry», he added.

Individuals residing in these zip codes as well as disadvantaged workers countywide, already facing challenges in securing meaningful employment and experiencing higher rates of unemployment themselves, will now have opportunities to secure employment on county - bid projects for which they meet qualifications.

If the governor and state legislative leaders are really serious about curbing corruption, then they should prioritize meaningful reform next year — especially as two of the governor's former aides are scheduled go to trial on charges related to bribery and bid - rigging some of the state's keystone economic development projects

«As a city with one of the highest rates of concentrated poverty in the United States, we need to focus our efforts on projects that can alleviate the pernicious effects of poverty, creating meaningful jobs and improving the quality of life in our neighborhoods.»

The Rosendale Town Board voted last week to send a letter to the two designated co-lead agencies on the State Environmental Quality Review (SEQR) of the Pilgrim Pipeline project, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and the New York Thruway Authority (NYTA), urging them to guarantee ample opportunities for «meaningful public and municipal participation» during the scoping phase of the review process.

«For the first time in Western Queens we will give the residents of the 26th District the ability to fund projects that are meaningful to their communities.

«In Western Queens are giving the residents of the 26th District the ability to fund projects that are meaningful and will make a difference in their communities.

And Community Board 7 has said it believes ULURP will be too far along in the process for the community to have meaningful input on the shape of the projects.

While the immediate budget savings from the freeze would be relatively modest — between $ 200 million and $ 400 million against a projected deficit in excess of $ 9 billion — achieving it would be politically meaningful.

«As part of his drive to improve the revenue base of the state and create more job opportunities for the youths, Governor Ayade graciously established the factory in the area with a view to reducing crime rate in the state and engages the people on meaningful project.

«While I welcome with open arms economic development projects, it is becoming increasingly clear to me that we need to make sure that our basic needs are taken care of first - before we can have meaningful and real economic development.»

Mark2Cure's current project «is all about showing that the output of [volunteer] efforts is scientifically meaningful,» Su says.

To paraphrase a spy, scientists often find education - focused conferences and meetings insipid, focused more on the manipulation of vague ideas and ill - defined symbols than on real and meaningful (and measurable) initiatives and outcomes — but these HHMI Professors presented a wide array of well - conceived and - executed (not to mention well - financed) projects that are likely to make a real difference in the education of tomorrow's scientists.

Dawe and his team are optimistic that they will make progress by the end of their initial 18 - month project period, but whether their trials yield anything that can be scaled up on a meaningful level remains to be seen.

According to Steve Kelling, director of information science at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology in New York, who runs the project together with the New York - based National Audubon Society, «the challenge now is to try to do something meaningful with all these data.»

It seeks to accomplish this goal by offering seed funding for new projects that promote meaningful academic and scientific exchange, and that show promise of leading to fruitful and sustainable collaboration.

BENISI (May 2013 — April 2016) is and Eu funded project with the aim of addressing the Europe's need of enhancing economic growth and thus creating new and meaningful jobs for a new generation of young people in need of employment.

A collaborative group including the CRI Cancer Immunotherapy Consortium (CIC), the Association for Cancer Immunotherapy (CIMT) Immunoguiding Program (CIP), and scientists at Stanford University launch the Minimal Information About T cell Assays (MIATA) Project, the first systematic effort to establish a framework for reporting immune monitoring data from T cell assays used in clinical trials, with the goal of fostering reliability of data to facilitate meaningful interpretation, comparison, and meta - analysis across clinical trials.

«The Meaningful Jobs project will improve the field of disability employment's strategic toolkit in developing high quality employment in nontraditional business sectors.»

Established in the vibrant educational community of Pittsburgh, PA, The Wrinkled Brain Project is focused on enacting meaningful, measurable change in STEM education at the local level.

Over the last 10 years, the project has held more than 20 public meetings, participated in numerous one - on - one meetings and group presentations, and has engaged in open dialog and meaningful discussions with community members and stakeholders to better understand the island's issues as well as the cultural and natural significance of Maunakea.

The use of this metadata standard by all ongoing and future GSCID sequencing projects will provide a consistent representation of these data in the BRC resources and other repositories that leverage these data, allowing investigators to identify relevant genomic sequences and perform comparative genomics analyses that are both statistically meaningful and biologically relevant.

I believe that hands - on manipulating of project information by all project participants is the key to achieving any meaningful improvement of the AEC industry operating within the post-gambling-era.

Dunaway and Wood's primary focus seems to be a brief commentary on all the manner of genres that Linklater has tackled: Sports flick, Bad News Bears; Period piece, Me and Orson Welles; Western, The Newton Boys and Sci - Fi, A Scanner Darkly all get a look in while highlighting his lack of pretension and his ability to dig deeper into more meaningful and intelligent projects.

GOLD Director: Stephen Gaghan Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Edgar Ramírez, Bryce Dallas Howard, Corey Stoll, Craig T. Nelson, Stacy Keach, Bruce Greenwood The term «McConaissance» arose as a way of acknowledging Matthew McConaughey's career shift from standard rom - coms to heavier, more meaningful projects.

But this contrast feels even more meaningful and cruel in The Florida Project because, as misguided as these characters are, it is hard not to feel like the beauty of their environment played a part in their complacency — the bright and optimistic colours a total deception, conning them into a false sense of security.

I decided that we should to a project on world hunger and food distribution, a topic of inquiry which is very meaningful in the Francophone world, since three of every five native speakers of French live in Sub-Saharan Africa, where hunger is a real life or death issue.

And I have memories of skipping meals or staying up too late to work on projects that felt meaningful.

The National Action Civics Collaborative is a great starting point for looking at examples of meaningful PBL projects.