Grant History

Approved Grants for Academic Year 2010-2011

Provide two SmartBoards for Hillside music classrooms$9400
Purchase biotechnology lab equipment to replicate and analyze DNA at HHS$8389
Purchase three computers and equipment for the high school Animation and Media Center$6578
Latin American dance residency for the fifth grade$4400
Provide CPR/AED training for 60 students on Health Day$3600
Phase three of Second Step social emotional learning program at Hillside$3400
Printmaking materials and a printmaking artist in residency for HHS art students.$3000
Puppet-making/writing workshop involving characters from Greek mythology for sixth grade language arts and social studies students$3000
Purchase an LCD monitor and equipment for a digital lobby hallway display at Hillside$2775
Willie Teacher, actor/educator aka Nzinga to an assembly kicking off Reading Month for fourth graders$2500
Epand Math Games and launch a publishing center at Hillside$2400
Bridge-building project with an architect for the second grade Hudson River unit. $2000
Bring storyteller David Gonzalez to perform Frog Bride for third graders$2000
Bring ceramicist Gina Mars to the high school art department for a unit on Raku firing including building a special kiln$1900
Bring Chinese Ribbon Dancers to Hillside and to fund the Dinosaur Rock program$1800
Tower of Power jazz workshop for Middle and High School music students$1500-3000
Bring Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival Students-on-Stage workshops to 8th graders for their Shakespeare unit.$1400
Purchase solar plates for etching at HHS$1399
Bring students from the Leadership Institute High School in the South Bronx together with students from HHS for activities and discussion as part of the Crossing Borders program$1300
Purchase three Nikon 35mm film cameras for HHS photography students$1075
Expand the BillŐs Books Collection at Hillside Library$1000
Purchase three Canon digital cameras for HHS media arts/photography classes $725
Fund printing for HHS literary magazine Oneirata under the on-going Debra Newman Memorial Fund$500
Ancient Greek Civilization pottery workshop, part of the annual Sixth Grade Grecian Festival$200
  1. Academic Year 2010-2011
  2. Academic Year 2009-2010
  3. Academic Year 2008-2009
  4. Academic Year 2007-2008
  5. Academic Year 2006-2007
  6. Academic Year 2005-2006
  7. Academic Year 2004-2005
  8. Academic Year 2003-2004