2023-24 Seed Grant Awards

Bridgeport Elementary School (Jackson County, Alabama)
Ms. Kathy Frizzelle
Reporting To You From The BES Newsroom!
BES would like to start a student news crew. This project will act as a true STREAM learning experience allowing students to work with all of the core learning elements in a real-world setting. A student news crew will allow students to hone "soft skills" as they learn by interviewing fellow students, faculty members, and/or community members.

Limestone County Career Technical Center (Limestone County, Alabama)
Ms. Monica Hobson
Team 34 Robotics Team
Team 34 participates in the FIRST FRC competition. It is a program that teaches students the principles of engineering and how to work as a team. In a short amount of time, students must work together and design and program a functioning robot to compete in that year's game. It is designed to promote interest in careers in the STEM fields. The competitions are opportunities to work with teams all over the country to achieve their goals. They will showcase and demonstrate at these competitions. This program is designed to give students real-world experience applicable to the STEM industry.

Moores Mill Intermediate School (Madison County, Alabama)
Ms. Kelly Davault
Design - Build - and Race Electric Cars - STEM and Innovation
GreenpowerUSA is an organization that our school has partnered with over the past six years. The goal of the GreenpowerUSA Foundation is to advance the understanding of STEM topics and inspire innovation in young people through the immersive experience of designing, building, and racing electric-powered vehicles. We have had this program for several years, but since COVID occurred, we have not gotten back into building our car and competing until 2022. I would like to be able to offer every student in my building the opportunity to join the Greenpower team and learn more about STEM topics.

New Hope High School (Madison County, Alabama)
Mrs. Rachel Evans
Preparing Students for the STEM Workforce with STEM Labs
New Hope High School partnered with FUSE Studio during the 2021-22 school year to provide hands-on, real-world STEM learning opportunities for our 7-9 grade students. Throughout this year, the students have learned how to code, how to build a plane, how to use CAD to build a structure like an architect, and how gravity effects downward movement such as roller coasters. The students were more engaged in the hands-on FUSE Studio labs than they have ever been. We had enough funding for 2 school years, and that will end in May 2023. This grant would help us pay for half of the FUSE Studio costs.

Mill Creek Elementary School (Madison County, Alabama)
Ms. Jackie Smith
Engineering Design Process: Lab 8
Engineering Design Lab 8 is an ongoing effort to create STEM Lab curriculum that correlates to the Next Generation Science Standards. It will provide students with a variety of hands-on, engineering based projects that will challenge them to utilize critical and analytical thinking skills. 3rd-5th grade students will work collaboratively to design, construct, and test weather balloons, CO2 metric dragsters, and drones. They will use Sphero Bolts to develop coding skills. These activities will foster the concept of teamwork and strengthen student understanding of the engineering design proces

Holy Spirit Regional Catholic School (Madison County, Alabama)
Mrs. Lynn K. McQueen
Reaching for the International Space Station
Students at our school are surrounded by "SPACE", whether it be because their Science curriculum is heavily weighted in the understanding of space exploration or their parents and/or a family member works for NASA in some capacity. With that as a basis for our project, our LEGO Team here at school wants to help teachers bring models of all the NASA LEGO Sets into the classroom to use as teaching tools. Then the 6th-grade students will work directly with NASA to incorporate the STEM lessons on the International Space Station into classrooms across the school.

Julian Newman Elementary (Limestone County, Alabama)
Mrs. Diane Trout
Growing the Future
Growing the Future is a program that will enable to students to grow healthy, nutritious food in the school year round. This project will also provide a place for students to conduct controlled experiments with seeds in an indoor or outdoor environment and relate it to the future of agriculture and how the impact of human's choices today, effect tomorrow's food supply.

Meridianville Middle School (Madison County, Alabama)
Mrs. Brandi Glenn
Oh, The Places We Will GROW: A STEM Project in Hydroponics.
Our class-wide objective for this hydroponic garden is to have an interactive long-term investigation that will teach students the importance of water conservation in a real-world situation. Students will understand the benefits of an alternative method to traditional gardening when water resources are limited and soil is contaminated.

Hazel Green High School (Madison County, Alabama)
Mrs. Teresa Hodge
Hazel Green Virtual PC Building Simulator/ Programming
As our society continues to expend into the virtual realm, there is a growing need for students to become involved in virtual reality programming and the ability to build computers capable of supporting this technology. Our project would address both of these issues. Our project would obtain a corporate license to an online PC building simulator which would allow our students to build custom PC's without having to invest in a large quantity of computer parts. We would also invest in VR googles which would be used in conjunction with VR programming tutorial platforms .

Lincoln County High School (Lincoln County, Tennessee)
Ms. Mary E LeBlanc (Marty)
Lincoln County Schools Robotics After School Program
Students need the ability to create, design, innovate, and think critically in order to solve complex challenges. Every student should possess deep knowledge and strong skills in math, science, technology, and engineering and should be excited and ready to use that knowledge in the real world. To meet this challenge, we need to provide students with new tools and techniques that enable them to learn and then practice the knowledge they have acquired. A number of robotics kit platforms are available to schools and have introduced students to math, science, and engineering at all grade levels.

New Century Technology High School (Madison County, Alabama)
Ms. Sarah Mason
Biotechnology Foundations
New Century Technology High School is in the process of equipping a well-appointed biotechnology lab as a major component of our biomedical strand courses. High quality digital milligram balances and a standing pH meter are key pieces of equipment for biotech activities performed in various courses at all grade levels. This equipment will help our students practice and prepare for the BACE (Biotechnology Assistant Certification Exam), taken in their senior year.

Ralph Askins Elementary (Lincoln County, Tennessee)
Mrs. Shana Smith
Little Tigers STEM Lab
Ralph Askins School has created a STEM lab as part of our weekly special classes rotation. In our 2nd year of existence we plan to build on the natural curiosity of our students and expand on previous learning. The STEM teacher will create lessons that support classroom curriculum and learning goals. The students will participate weekly in the STEM lab, (more often as scheduling allows,) and explore more than 15 concepts per year.

Seed Grants for Previous Years

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