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Featured Grants For Grades 6 - 12
 

Funded projects in grades 6-12 provide students with the opportunity to "do science" in new ways that promise to increase their engagement with the subject matter and improve their learning. A complete list of recent grants are provided below, along with descriptions of several exceptional projects.
 

New Kent High School (New Kent, VA)
Science teacher Mrs. Sue McIninch's class has successfully built two hives and added bees. The hives are all abuzz and students are monitoring them closely. Two additional observation hives are under construction and will be ready for bees in the Spring of next year.

Click here to view a student blog about the project.
Academy of Environmental Science (Crystal River, FL)
Students at the Academy of Environmental Science are exploring their local coastal environment using new equipment purchased for the "What is in the Water?" project. Through this grant, students are introduced to marine science and provided with the opportunity to conduct hands-on investigations of their local marine ecology.
Click here to view a student video about their school's mission and the new water monitoring project
North Penn High School (Lansdale, PA)
North Penn High School in Lansdale received a grant of $4,930 in support of a new Nanotechnology Research Program. Students from the school's Engineering Academy shared their findings in public presentation on June 9, 2010.
Click here to view the presentation about the Nanotechnology project.
Greater Hartford Academy of Mathematics and Science (West Hartford, CT)
Greater Hartford Academy of Mathematics and Science (GHAMS) received a grant of $18,650 for its hands-on elective course, The Algal BioDiesel Project. Through this project, GHAMS students will study, evaluate, produce and test alternative (non-petroleum) fuel sources. Using a range of different algae, students will test the relative merits of various fuel sources in a team-based research project. For example, students investigating the efficacy of an alga as a fuel source will begin by learning how to cultivate algae via aquaculture. Student teams will be responsible for monitoring the entire process--from the production of raw materials to testing of the fuel source's ability to power a motor. The project began with a TAF grant in 2006.
Click here to view the video about The Algal BioDiesel Project
 
Bard High School Early College II (Queens, NY)

Bard High School Early College II (BHSEC II) received a grant of $13,440 to create an inquiry-based physics investigation which will examine how human activity -- especially air pollution -- may be affecting the local weather and lightning activity.

Bard High School in Queens is the second school established by Bard College (Annandale-On-Hudson, NY) and the New York City Board of Education. The school's early college model draws on the scholarship of Bard President Leon Botstein and his belief that high-school-aged students are young adults whose ambition to learn must be taken seriously. Love of learning dominates the school culture. A rigorous curriculum allows students to fulfill all of the Regents' requirements through an engaging and demanding college level education.

With new equipment purchased with their Toshiba America Foundation grant, students will study how urbanization, pollution and the "heat island effect" relate to lightning activity.

Click here to view a video from BHSEC II's project
 
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