The Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum plans to reach out to more school children thanks to the Royal Bank of Canada.
A $5,000 donation will be used to promote the museum’s Beyond the Classroom program offered to middle school classes.
“It will help getting the information out to teachers at their conventions: one here Feb. 21 and 22 and one in Banff in April for physical education teachers,” said Donna Hately, the museum’s managing director.
She hopes next fall, the money will help re-establish a program where museum display was sent to schools for up to three weeks. The new display would be about the city’s centennial.
The Beyond the Classroom modules offered are Times Gone By, Fair Play and Respect, Creating Healthy Minds and Bodies, Victory in the Field and First Nations in Sport. About 35 school groups from across Central Alberta took in the program last year.