Toyota Supports Early Childhood Education with New Academies in Western Kentucky

WKMS | By Chad Lampe

Published June 18, 2013 at 12:30 PM CDT

Toyota Motor Manufacturing of Kentucky will fund six new bornlearning Academies in western Kentucky schools and renew support for two others.

Calloway County's East Elementary and Paducah’s Farley Elementary first received their share of $1 million in grant funds in 2012.

Toyota’s bornlearning Academy teaches parents and caregivers how to build strong learning connections at home for children prenatal to five years old. This school-based academy consists of six workshop sessions that provide parents with the tools to help their children succeed in kindergarten and beyond.

The six western Kentucky schools to receive new grants this year are in Henderson, Davies, Trigg Calloway, Graves and Christian Counties. There are now 21 bornlearning academies in Kentucky.

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Chad Lampe, a Poplar Bluff, Missouri native, was raised on radio. He credits his father, a broadcast engineer, for his technical knowledge, and his mother for the gift of gab. At ten years old he broke all bonds of the FCC and built his own one watt pirate radio station. His childhood afternoons were spent playing music and interviewing classmates for all his friends to hear. At fourteen he began working for the local radio stations, until he graduated high school. He earned an undergraduate degree in Psychology at Murray State, and a Masters Degree in Mass Communication. In November, 2011, Chad was named Station Manager in 2016.

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