SPRING 2024 Grant Winners

This project will use funds to purchase 5 educational food related posters, 5 poster frames and 1 EZ display wall document holder for our monthly menu to hang around the cafeteria at Northeast Elementary. The signage can be viewed by students daily on what healthy food options are and what they look like will encourage students to choose healthy food options not only at school but also at home.

This project will use funds to restock regularly used pieces of PE equipment.  Since PE equipment experiences significant wear and tear due to frequent use, the grant will allow the PE department to restock and maintain a safe and functional environment when they participate in physical activities.

The project will use funds to pay for half the costs of the   Champions 101--Building Leaders program. The athletic department will cover the other half of the costs. This program is designed to help members of the Student Athletic Advisory Council become leaders not only on athletic teams but also in the school. The program has a curriculum designed to develop leadership skills and then enhance those skills so that these leaders can work with teammates to help them to become leaders.

This project will use to give the award winner additional tools and items in the classroom to continue to work with students who are struggling to read at every grade level, and in many cases are several grade levels behind in reading by the time they begin to receive special education services. The tools this grant will provide allow the award winner to positively impact potentially hundreds of students over the years.

The funds will be used to purchase kitchen utensils and goods for the QUEST program

Grant funds will be used to purchase 34 programming and coding robots that can be used by students learning at all levels.  Initially, Mr. Dean will start with 15 Spheros and Mr. Esterline with 15 Makeblock MBot Mega Robotics Cars. Each teacher has 150 students each semester so 300 students will get to experience coding with these different robots in the first semester of the 2024-2025 school year alone. Since coding can be difficult for some students that may have different learning needs, funds are also being used for 4 Sphero Indi Student Kits. These are more simplified coding robots that can be used at the PreK level on up. They can be used without screens or devices. This will allow the award winners to help develop the basic coding foundations with all of our students, including with some of the Quest students, to teach them some basic coding concepts in a fun way. These kits are individually packaged in their own case so they can easily be shared with other classrooms and students that need them. Additionally, Mr. Dean and Mr. Esterline plan to integrate their new Coding Robots into their class curriculum to coincide with the national Hour of Code initiative.