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                 July 2011 Centro Esperanza Latina Make A Splash Participants                       

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What Is Make A Splash (MAS)?
The USA Swimming Foundation launched Make a Splash, a national child-focused water safety initiative, in 2007 to educate the public on the importance of learning how to swim. Make A Splash is designed to help bring swimming to parts of the community that may not otherwise be exposed either due to lack of facilities, lack of funding or lack of understanding of the importance of knowing how to swim. 

GCSTO's Make A Splash Scholarship Fund
The Greater Columbus Swim School was awarded a $4,000 grant for the 2011/2012 year from the USA Swimming Foundation as a Local Partner in their Make A Splash campaign and has added another $1,000 to that grant to bring our scholarship fund up to $5,000!

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GCSTO' s Make A Splash Year Around Individual Swimmer Scholarships

GCSS has designated a portion of this grant money to provide scholarships to individual swimmers throughout the course of the entire year for group lessons within our program who may have difficulty, otherwise, affording such quality instruction. This scholarship money will initially be available to 2 basic groups of individuals.

1 – One group qualified for funding will be immediate family members of our active American armed forces.

The armed forces included here will be Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Marine & Navy. Immediate family members include the armed force member themselves, their spouse and their children. Each participating family member will be eligible for a 50% reduction in instructional fees for up to 2 (two) sessions of lessons per individual per year. Proof of active military status (provide by your branch of the armed forces) and proof that this is an immediate family member (a copy of any legal document demonstrating this relationship) must be provide with this Make A Splash application (note that this is a special application so please make sure to fill out the right one). Once your application and proof of active military duty & family member status has been received we will notify you of your grant award status within 7 days.

2 - The other group qualified for funding will be immediate family members low income households. Low income family households shall be described as households with a gross yearly income under 140% of 2011 federal poverty guidelines according to household members as follows:

Each participating family member will be eligible for a 75% reduction in instructional fees for up to
 2 (two) sessions of lessons per individual per year (50% to come from the MAS grant money and 25% to come from GCSS grant money). Proof of household income in relation to dependants (as reflected in your previous year’s federal or state income tax records) and proof that this is an immediate family member (a copy of any legal document demonstrating this relationship) must be provide with this Make A Splash application. Note that this is a special application so please make sure to fill out the right one. Make sure to black out your social security number on your copy of your federal income tax records when submitting that with your application for privacy reasons. Once your application and proof of income and resident status has been received we will notify you of your grant award status within 7 days.

Special Notes

* Sole discretion for the awarding of funding lies with the ownership and management of ACE, Inc. and the GCSS.

* Once funding runs out each fiscal year, it will not be available until the following year and, as such, all scholarship programming will be put on hold until such time as we are awarded a grant for the ensuing year.

* ACE, Inc., owner/operator of the GCSS, reserves the rights to amend this scholarship program at any point in time and will not be bound by any previously published guidelines so that we can ensure proper use of these funds by individual and group participants.

* ACE, Inc. reserves the rights to reject any scholarship request or revoke any scholarship funding for any reason without bias.

GCSTO 's Make A Splash Year Around Individual Scholarship Class Schedule
Participants in this aspect of our MAS program are awarded their scholarships for our regular year around programming schedule and, as such, their schedule follows that of our normal year around programming. Please see our 2012 Lesson Brochure for that complete schedule. 

GCSTO 's Make A Splash Year Around Individual Scholarship Registration Instructions
Participants in this aspect of our MAS program are awarded their scholarships for our regular year around programming schedule and, as such, their registration process follows that of our normal year around programming. Please see our 2012 Lesson Brochure for that process which can be found in the "Registration Information" section of that brochure. Please use THIS APPLICATION when enrolling under our "Individual Scholarship" guidelines. 

GCSTO's Make A Splash Year AroundIndividual Scholarship Programming Coordinator

Erin Harris - harriserin@ymail.com or 614-582-2597
 PO Box 10227 Columbus, OH 43201

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GCSTO' s Make A Splash Short Term Service Group & Individual Swimmer
Free Event Scholarships 
GCSS has designated a portion of this grant money to provide FREE short term swim lesson programming/instruction to community based service groups (camps, daycares, special interest groups, churches, and other such organizations) who reach parts of our community who may otherwise rarely, if ever, be able to receive such qualified instruction. This is not for just any group but specifically for groups servicing those in financial need and those who clearly have little opportunity to receive swimming instruction. Interested groups should contact GCSS MAS head instructor, Cheryl Austin, with their request and should provide us with a complete description of their service entity and the community members that they service. In terms of the request, we would need to know the approximate age range & overall number of the participants you wish to service. As well, we’ll need to know your availability for classes (what days and times) and how many classes it is that you wish to arrange. We will arrange up to 3.00 hours of free instruction for all of your swimmers set up in 30 to 45 minute classes (6 or 4 class meetings, respectively). Each service organization may have up to 50 participants each receiving the 3 hours of free instruction. Each participant will be required to have a program application filled out and signed by their parent or legal guardian.
GCSTO will also make a portion of this grant money available to provide FREE short term swimming lesson programming/instruction to individual swimmers who may otherwise rarely, if ever, be able to receive such qualified instruction. Swimmers age 3 to 17 are eligible to participate in this program. This program is restricted to those in financial need of help and who are on a free or reduced cost lunch program within their school system. As well, anyone qualifying under the financial guidelines outlined above in #2 of the "Individual Swimmer Scholarship" section are also eligible for these events.
 
GCSTO 's Make A Splash Free Event Schedule

The Columbus Academy is located at 4300 Cherry Bottom Road, Gahanna, OH 43230
The Gahanna Swimming Pool is located at 148 Parkland Drive, Gahanna, OH 43230
The Hunter's Ridge Pool is located at 341 Harrow Blvd., Gahanna, OH 43230

Free Event Make A Splash Registration Instructions

To register for one of these FREE spring or summer events or one of the FREE spring actual class sessions, please fill out the application found in the box immediately above. These are all the same applications so only 1 application needs to be completed regardless of the number of events it is in which you are participating. 
Next, send us a copy of the letter that you have received qualifying you for the reduced lunch program for your school district.
Next, please indicate the event(s) or session(s) it is for which you are registering. You MAY sign up for as many events as you would like although GCSTO reserves the rights to limit these in the event that we experience an overabundance of participants.
Next, please send that registration for these FREE events to our Free Event coordinator, Cheryl Austin. Please see that information below. We will then contact you to confirm receipt of your application and confirmation of acceptance. One week prior to your event, we will, again, contact you to confirm your participation in the event! 

GCSTO's Free Event Programming Make A Splash Coordinator

Cheryl Austin - cca19@case.eduor 847-219-0278
PO Box 30483 Gahanna, OH 43230