Grant History

Grants for Academic Year 2009-2010

Purchase 25 computers for FMS and 25 computers for HHS $31,450
Establish a K-12 videoconferencing program in the Russell Lecture Room $11,702
Fund engineering field study to develop design plans to upgrade the fields and maximize play areas $10,000
Purchase museum memberships and museum programs for all Hillside students $8,175
Purchase two computers and necessary equipment to pilot an animation and media station at HHS $7,000
Fund initial planning for the renovation of the Middle School playground, stage one $5,000
Install kiln and vent system in room H126C (FMS) $4344
Fund Salsa Dance Residency, 5th grade $4,200
Purchase LabQuest Handhelds and notebook computer to use with Vernier probes at HHS $4,100
Purchase equipment for solar plate printing and workshop with artist Dan Welden, HHS $3,920
Purchase equipment for Differentiated Indoor Recess at Hillside $3,700
Fund puppet project as party of 6th grade Grecian Festival $3,000
Purchase a sound system, digital recorder and multiple CD burner for the choral program, FMS/HHS $2,562
Fund four days of poetry workshops for each first grade class, plus materials and planning session with visiting Artist $2,200
CPR/AED training by TriHarbour Training Associates for HHS seniors $2,100
Fund “Building Bridges”, third grade program to study the architectural history and concepts behind beam, suspension and arch bridges, culminating in bridge construction from recycled materials $2,000
Fund dance workshop with Pilobolus Dance troupe, 4th grade $2,000
Fund African storyteller/assembly to kick off Reading Month and student-created tableaux, 4th grade $2,000
Fund Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival’s Touring Company production of Midsummer Night’s Dream, 8th grade $1800
Purchase wireless handheld scanner to inventory the library database $1,795
Purchase 40 Playway preloaded digital audiobooks for Hillside Library $1,752
Establish “Charlie’s Garden”, an edible garden to be run by first graders $1,750
Purchase DVDs to upgrade the media collection at the FMS/HHS library $1,622
Help fund a coach for the HHS chess team $1,500
Fund Literatura de Cordel (“Story on a String”): 4th grade Spanish, Dominican art form of communication $1,400
Purchase two enclosed cork bulletin boards to display artwork at FMS $1,125
Fund African-American Bokandye Drummers/Dancers’ workshop for 3rd graders $1,000
Fund Chinese dance performance to support Hillside diversity and kindergarten social studies curriculum for Lunar New Year $800
Purchase replica hominoid, human and primate skulls for HHS students to explore evolutionary develop- ment through comparative skull physiology $700
Fund Lou DelBianco’s multicultural storytelling, theater , music program for kindergarten $650
Debra Newman Memorial Fund: ongoing grant to provide enrichment for student publications $500
Fund after school comedy workshop $500
Fund Greek pottery project for 6th Grade Grecian Festival $281
  1. Academic Year 2009-2010
  2. Academic Year 2008-2009
  3. Academic Year 2007-2008
  4. Academic Year 2006-2007
  5. Academic Year 2005-2006
  6. Academic Year 2004-2005
  7. Academic Year 2003-2004