Fitzhugh Park Elementary School, Oswego, NY, PI: Nicholas Little - $490.24
Green House for Healthy Eating
TEAM Fitzhugh will extend its red worm composting project to include an inside, 5-tiered greenhouse that uses the compost to generate fresh vegetables. Students will track the garden growth, present information on vegetable health benefits, and encourage other classes to create their own garden.
Odessa-Montour Central School District, Odessa, NY, PI: Christopher Wood - $3,053
Weather Watch
The Odessa-Montour Central School District will install a Davis weather station, a set of receivers and a hub that will send data to the cloud making weather data available to the entire community. Students will learn to describe and measure sky cover, temperature, wind, humidity, and precipitation; and will try their hands at weather forecasting, and presenting their weather forecasts to the entire student body on live-streaming TV during morning announcements.
Fall Creek Elementary School, Ithaca, NY, PI: Maureen Gilroy - $3,550
Rigamajig for Design and Problem Solving
The school librarian will coordinate with teachers to enhance social studies and science lessons to provide students with opportunities to design, create and problem solve in the library. A Rigamajig kit will make mastering standards exciting and more realistic with solid and sturdy products that can actually be used to help to solve a real world problem. Rigamajig kits will give students an opportunity to work collaboratively and use their imagination to make something or solve a STEM challenge.
Maine Memorial Elementary, Maine, NY, PI: Sara Edwards - $3,494.07
Creating 21st Century Innovators
The Maine Memorial Elementary School will provide all students from early kindergarten to fifth grade with the opportunity to use various STEAM activities and technology that will prepare them to become 21s century learners, enhancing their creativity, inquisitiveness, collaboration, problem solving and critical thinking skills.
Victor Primary School, Victor, NY, PI: Michele Linse- $2,020.87
Coding a Culture of Creativity and Innovation: Project Spark Week
Victor Primary School will provide a much needed STEM boost through the purchase of 12 Sphero Spk+ robots and controllers, creating an innovative investment impacting over 1,500 students over at least 4 years. The librarian will create a week-long classroom experience scaffolded at 3 levels so minimally trained classroom teachers can adopt the robotics for a week and use them effectively in student partnerships.
Brasher Falls Central School District, Brasher Falls, NY, PI: Alexandra Clark- $3,541
BFCSD Science Capacity Building Initiative
Brasher Falls CSD will purchase STEM equipment to serve students in both the middle school and high school science classrooms and serve students doing independent research; the equipment may also potentially be used by elementary school teachers in their classrooms. The new equipment will build Brasher Falls’ science and technology capacity in hopes of preparing for the NGSS, improving laboratory science skills, enriching the science program, and inspiring interest in science.
Homer Intermediate School, Homer, NY, PI: Kathleen Totman - $4,299.09
Amazing “Field Trips” are Now Possible with Virtual Reality
Homer Intermediate School Library will purchase virtual reality (VR) headsets kits and Merge cubes to provide augmented reality (AR) experiences. Students will have the opportunity to virtually “visit” places around the world, and venture into a variety of educational, interactive experiences.
Morris Central School, Morris, NY, PI: Heather Grant- $4,000
Elementary Science Laboratory Revitalization Project
This first step in updating the Elementary Science lab includes purchasing STEM activities, technology and laboratory kits and supplies, in order for teachers to work with students on inquiry-based, hands-on science activities.
Stockbridge Valley Central School, PI: Melissa Grogan- $2,988.90
Breaking Barriers Though Virtual Reality
Bringing virtual reality technology into the classroom will provide the students in this small, rural school with cultural and educational experiences that they would otherwise not have access to in the community.
Van Duyn Elementary, Syracuse, NY, PI: Maura White- $1,133.50
Deepening Science Inquiry of the NYSSLS in Grades K-2
Van Duyn Elementary will build NYSSLS-based kits for each K-2 classroom that will focus on all required science domains to ensure deep understanding of foundational knowledge, practices and cross-cutting concepts.
Merton Williams Middle School, Hilton, NY, PI: Angela Boccuzzi-Reichert- $2,804.10
How does our garden grow?
Career and Technical Education Classes (CTE) will build and maintain a greenhouse to provide students with real-world, hands-on experiences that align to the current curriculum. The greenhouse project will be a collaborative effort between construction, agriculture, entrepreneurship and international culinary CTE classes.
Utica Academy of Science Charter School/Elementary, Utica, NY, PI: Genevieve Campanella- $1,400
Full STEAM Ahead at Utica Academy of Science Elementary School
Focused learning activities in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math (STEAM) will provide authentic, realistic and developmentally appropriate experiences for student scholars and their parents. School goals include engaging parents and involving community members in school programs, as well as encouraging interdisciplinary learning units at each grade level.
Casey Park Elementary, Auburn, NY, PI: Shannon DelloStritto- $1,832.76
All STEAM Ahead Phase 2
Engaging STEAM activities will continue to be provided for kindergarten through sixth grade students with even more opportunities to explore, craft and create assorted ideas on different STEAM tasks.
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse, NY, PI: Tim Saka- $4,850
Makerspace- Robotics Program
The OCC Library Makerspace mission is to provide classes, programming, and resources that promote student learning through exploration and hands-on activities in a community-based, inclusive environment. This project will introduce students to robotics, enable students to learn basic robotics programming, and encourage students to develop their interest and skills in robotics.
Bloomfield Elementary School, Bloomfield, NY, PI: Beth Falsone- $907.74
Makey-Makey Re-Invents the Classroom
This enrichment program will be offered to all 4th grade students. After learning how to create a circuit and code, students will design a Makey-Makey project that will have them interacting with the world around them in unique and creative ways.
Wheeler Elementary School, Nedrow, NY, PI: Jessica Matzke- $1,680
Empowering Global Learners with Sphero
Through this hands-on project, students will use Spheros BOLT robots as digital tools to help broaden their perspectives, enrich their computer science learning, and inspire curiosity, creativity and invention through connected play and coding. Students will collaborate with teachers and classmates, working effectively in teams toward a common goal. Spheros will be implemented across all subject areas and in afterschool STEM Squad and Technology Internship clubs. Students can publish their work through the existing global Sphero network.
Oxford Academy and Central Schools, Oxford, NY, PI: Uday Mukhlis- $3,209.53
Preparing for the Future: Full STEAM Ahead!
Oxford has converted an old bus garage into a half-million-dollar STEAM Academy. This project provides materials and supplies for the STEAM initiative with the purchase of the littleBits Pro Library and additional materials that will help students learn.
Frankfort-Schuyler Central School District, Frankfort, NY, PI: Jordan Purinton- $2,883.65
Frankfort-Schuyler FLL (First Lego League)
A Fist Lego League school team will be formed at Frankfort-Schuyler Middle School to raise interest and awareness of STEM. The students can continue to pursue their interests utilizing the strong, high school STEM education programs already available.
McGraw CSD Elementary School, McGraw, NY, PI: Susan Prince- $2,500
McGraw Afterschool Enrichment Program
McGraw’s afterschool Enrichment Program offers a variety of experiences for students in grades 1-5. Current offerings such as Science Club, Lego Mania, Nature Crafts, Kids Coding, FabMaker and Cooking will continue to offer engaging STEAM opportunities to students.
Remsen Central School District, Remsen, NY, PI: Anne Reilly- $1,941
Science Fair Technology Integration
This program will provide Remsen’s Junior High Science Fair students with support to develop more complex projects through the integration of technology into their presentations. Students will learn to code using MakerBit+R kits, and the acquisition of a 3D printer will allow students to design and create solutions to scientific problems, leading to innovative projects and increased student engagement.
Sherbune-Earlville Central School District, Sherburne, NY, PI: Jonathan Ryan- $3,500
Sherburne-Earlville GLOWFORGE
A Glowforge Pro laser printer/cutter/etcher, filter and materials will be added to Sherburne-Earlville’s Makerspace where it will benefit students K-12. Elementary students can create personalizing gifts, gears, devices and working models. MS/HS students can create items for team fundraisers, art portfolios, set design pieces, FIRST Robotics, marketing class, and windmills and bridges for the SUNY Poly STEM Outreach Competition.