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Congratulations to Our First 2021 Online Mini-grant Recipients!
This month, we are pleased to announce our first round of mini-grant recipients for teaching online! Congratulations to the following applicants:
Augusto Tul Rax
Online course for 25 Poqomchi’ teens.
Chitul Santa Cruz Verapaz, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala.
Gloria Nayeli Tun Tuz
Online workshop for 20 Yucatec students.
Chichimilá, Yucatán, México.
José Alfredo Hau Caamal and Erika Evangelina Puc Ay
Online course for 10 Yucatec university students.
Chichimilá, Yucatán, México..
Omar Alejandro Chan May
Online course for 15 Yucatec students, ages 12+.
Felipe Carillo Puerto, Quintana Roo, Mexico.
Pedro Alejandro Vásquez Tay
Online course for 20 Uspanteko students, age 15-20.
Uspantán, El Quiché, Guatemala.
We look forward to hearing about these exciting online courses and publishing their reports and recorded lectures in the near future! We encourage more applicants to contact us if they are interested in teaching online or offering recorded content to make publicly available, particularly content for specific Maya language communities that can potentially reach a wider audience during these isolating times.
This month, we also hear back from one of our new mini-grant recipients about her last workshop from 2019. Gloria Nayeli Tun Tuz shows us the marvelous, inscribed jícara bowls (hollowed out gourd halves) that her students have made.
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