Jason Anderson

2018
Akron, OH
Archbishop Hoban High School

Anderson’s innovative teaching idea, “Music of the Revolution,” focuses on creating an educational program where the students at Archbishop Hoban High School spend a semester in museum studies to enable them to educate local elementary students about Ohio’s only Revolutionary War fort. Students involved in the project will research the American Revolution and veterans through pension file research, and will go on to create biographies of each of them. This program not only focuses on all educational disciplines, but provides an outreach program to the community. With the Voya grant, students will use first-hand 18th century technology, observe medical care of the Revolution in their field hospital, visit General Washington’s headquarters, and more.