Grant History

Approved Grants for Academic Year 2011-2012

Fund Phase One of Farragut Middle School playground renovation $22,000
Provide four SmartBoards for 2nd grade classrooms $16,800
Provide steel drums to establish new co-curricular course and elective $14,642
Provide three Smartboards for 1st grade classrooms$12,600
Expand and upgrade the fitness/weight room and yoga/aerobics studio FMS/HHS Phys Ed and Health Departments $11,000
Provide sound systems (wall-mounted speakers, cage, iPod) for both FMS gyms $6,011
Bring speaker Michael Nerney (Adolescent Brain and High Risk Behavior expert) for 4 HHS workshops, 2 for students, one each for parents and teachers $5,500
Fund Teachers and Writers Playwriting multi-week residency, fifth grade $5,250
Purchase library materials, kits to build solar-electric machines and teacher handbooks for 7th grade $4,553
Provide SmartBoard for Special Ed FMS $4,200
Provide SmartBoard for ESL FMS$4,200
Provide SmartBoard for 6th grade math classroom$4,200
Purchase two Epson 450i interactive projectors for FMS art rooms $3,800
Provide funds for feasibility study to build outdoor classroom at Sugar Pond $3,500
Purchase materials for new HHS course, Material Science and Nanotechnology $3,500
Provide K-12 Health and Phys Ed curriculum consultant $2,500
Hire consultant for staff development and student work-shops to add rumba and hustle to Phys Ed dance units HHS $2,160
Bring Hudson Valley Students-on-Stage Shakespeare Festival workshops, 8th grade $2,000
Provide Epson interactive projector 8th grade language Arts classroom $1,900
Provide Epson interactive projector FMS health Classroom $1,900
Provide Epson interactive projector FMS World Language (French and Spanish) $1,900
Provide ESL-appropriate books for content-area library, Hillside $1,500
Purchase digital cameras, FMS art department $1,400
Purchase art displays K-12 $1,300
Purchase pottery wheel for HHS ceramics $1,182
Purchase materials to support new HHS course, Ceramics II $1,194
Purchase studio lighting kit for HHS still life and portrait photography $1,100
Expand collection of Playaway audiobooks, Hillside Library $900
Fund Taconic Opera’s 45-minute program to introduce Opera to K-4 Hillside $800
Bring Lou DelBianco, interactive storyteller, to Hillside $650
Ongoing Debra Newman Memorial Fund for language arts $600
Purchase slab roller for HHS ceramics $424
Provide five digital voice recorders for Hastings Buzzer Reporters plus Columbia Scholastic Press Association regular membership $419
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