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Exhibit A <br />CHILDREN'S SERVICES ADVISORY COMMITTEE <br />2021-22 GRANT APPLICATION <br />Agency Name: T. T. Hardy Online News Corp. D/B/A Vero Communique <br />Address: 1915 Bridgepoint Circle, Unit 39, Vero Beach, FL, 32960, US <br />Executive Director: Thomas Hardy <br />Email: hardythomast@gmail.com <br />Phone: (781) 635-2251 <br />Program Director: Thomas Hardy <br />Email: hardythomast@gmail.com <br />Phone: (772) 635-2251 <br />Program(s) Name: The Young Journalist <br />Focus Area(s): Quality Academic Remediation and Enrichment <br />PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: <br />The primary principle behind the Young Journalist Program is that the best predictor of <br />life's success is one's reading and writing ability in primary school. Using a developed <br />curricula, our mentors teach the "tools" of journalism: email, online research, copying and <br />pasting in Word, citing sources, downloading publishable images, creating a news <br />broadcast, proper sentence structure, paraphrasing, grammar, punctuation, vocabulary <br />and most importantly, conceptualizing how the research will become a published article. <br />The students read out loud biographies of journalists such as Marjory Stoneman Douglas, <br />E.B. White, Gwen Ifill, Hunter Thompson and Richard Engel, to inspire them. This also <br />educates them in journalism's many styles and helps them build a rich and expansive <br />vocabulary, which enhances their writing. <br />Our Young Journalist Program is a free offering of the School District of Indian River <br />County "Extended Day" Program. Classes are held in the computer labs at each <br />elementary school twice a week from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. One mentor is responsible each <br />school. <br />The projected number of unduplicated children to be served is ninety-one (91). <br />