Fieldcrest High School Makes National Top 10 List for Project Ignition

Peoria, IL. – Congressman Aaron Schock (R-IL) will be on hand TODAY, Thursday, June 9th, in Toluca to meet with students from Fieldcrest High School about Project Ignition, a national teen safe driving program.

WHO:            Congressman Aaron Schock

WHAT:          Congressman Aaron Schock will meet with students from Fieldcrest High School to discuss the importance of Project Ignition, a national teen safe driving program. The students meeting with Schock are members of the Fieldcrest FOCUSED group (Fieldcrest Organization of Citizens Undertaking Safe and Educated Driving.) While meeting with the students Schock will congratulate them on their successful outreach and for reaching the status of being a top 10 team in the country, thank them for taking on the ambitious task and discuss the continued important of reaching out to teens to discuss safe driving techniques.

WHERE:        Tall Oaks Country Club
                      Illinois 117
                      Toluca, IL 61369
                                   
WHEN:           TODAY, Thursday, June 9, 2011
                      2:00 p.m. CT – 2:30 p.m. CT

BACKGROUND: Project Ignition, a national teen safe driving program, released its top ten schools list last week. Fieldcrest School was singled out as one of ten schools to be recognized for their FOCUSED group. The program – a grant program – promotes teen driving safety issues. To become a Project Ignition team, a high school teen safe driving team must apply for Tier I status. The applying team must indicate areas in which they believe distracted driving is an issue. If a team is granted Tier I status, as Fieldcrest H.S. has been, a $2,000.000 grant is awarded to the team to help them to continue to spread their message. Having just received the award of Tier II status, school teams are eligible for $2,500 in continuation money for their second-year plans and a $5,000.00 travel stipend to attend the National Service Learning Conference in April 2012. Fieldcrest H.S. will join only nine other schools across the nation in the Tier II category.  Project Ignition Website: http://www.sfprojectignition.com/