Ithaca College

The Strings Off And Running program is Directed by Julie Along Carr and is offered to students at Cortland's St. Mary's School.  IC Junior music education majors are involved in the instruction process as part of their field experience and string pedagogy classes.  Around 60 students in grades pre-K through 6 are involved in the program each year. 

The National String Project Consortium (NSPC) is a coalition of String Project sites based at colleges and universities across the United States. The NSPC is dedicated to increasing the number of children playing stringed instruments, and addressing the critical shortage of string teachers in the US. The NSPC is affiliated with businesses, foundations, professional music organizations, and individuals who support these goals.

The awarded grants will be used to fund the pre-K experience program, which provides an introduction to playing string instruments to 3 and 4 year olds.