SWSF Distributes $12,800 in Classroom Grants on Dec. 5
It was a welcome classroom interruption for 19
“We had some particularly innovative requests this year,” said SWSF Board President Dave Haworth, who dressed in a tuxedo to present the grants and was joined by SWSF Board member Becky Foote who handed out balloons.
“This year’s requests ranged from a high school science solar voltaic array project which is designed to produce electricity from solar panels to be placed in the high school parking lot, to an intermediate school musical production called ‘Character Matters’,” Haworth said.
One of the unique equipment requests was for two hand -crank powered laptops for student field trips which was made by
Other grants were awarded for a weather station at the middle school, to support the high school’s “College Knowledge” program, to fund a rainwater collection and storage program at the middle school, to start a music program at Bayview, and to modify last year’s winning solar dragster to enter the world competition again in 2008. Additional grants can be found below.
The South Whidbey Schools Foundation program has granted more than $60,000 since it was started in 1995. The grant disbursements follow the foundation’s successful September fundraising gala dinner which raised $20,000 for the nonprofit foundation.
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| Title | Teacher | School | Description | Grant Amount |
| "Eye Spy In The Magic Garden" | Linda Garl | Primary | Birding and stewardship of the "Magical Garden" | $916.88 |
| Life Cycle of Plants | Jennifer Gandarias and Mary Ridley | Intermediate | Life Cycle of plants | $400 |
| Handiwork for All Students | Val Brown, Susan Ritzner, Michele Zisette | Intermediate | Handiwork for all student | $330 |
| LMS Chess Club | Will Collins, Don Zisette | Middle | LMS Chess Club | $200 |
| Weather Station | Don Zisette | Middle | Weather Station Science | $500 |
| Special Field Trip Laptops | Nels Berquist | Middle | One for One hand cranked laptops | $798 |
| Rainwater Collectionand Storage System and Storage System | Susie Richards | Middle | Rainwater Collection and Storage System | $997 |
| Math Camera Project | Sandy Gilbert | Middle | Math Camera movie project | $425 |
| Healthy Lifestyles | Victoria Santos | Middle | Choosing Healthy Lifestyle | $600 |
| Novel Sets for Book Groups | Sue Raley | Bayview | Books for student reading groups | $1,000 |
| Sculpture Garden Materials | Carrie Whitney | Bayview | Materials for a sculpture Garden | $1,000 |
| Music Program | Charlene Suzuki | Bayview | Funding to start a music program | $1,000 |
| "College of Knowledge" support | Rob Prosch | High School | Materials to support student understanding and staff learning resources | $1,000 |
| Solar voltaic array project | Jay Freundlich; Dylan Fate (student) | High School | Solar panels in the high school parking lot to generate energy | $1,000 |
| Solar Dragster modifications | Jay Freundlich | High School | Funds to modify this year's solar dragster for competition | $400 |
| Special graphing calculator software | David Nelson | High School | Math software | $594.82 |
| Alegebra software | Tim Durbin | High School | Algebra software | $499 |
| Speed Stacking Materials | PattiJo Craig | Whidbey Island Academy | Speed stacking materials | $450 |