Grant Archive : Most Recent Grants Awarded
Read about our most recent grants below. To view more summaries, choose from the menu to the left.
Summer Science Program at the AH Outdoor Classroom
This project has been designed for students to participate in a joint effort to organize, analyze, and re-develop the Ecology Center/outdoor classroom space at Alexander Hamilton School during this summer. It will be ready for student and teacher use when school begins. The space that had been previously developed experienced massive destruction from the floods that occurred in the fall of 2011. This grant will give district high school students a chance to redevelop the space for students and teachers from Alexander Hamilton and Morristown High School to use in science, art, and language art classes. MHS students would be able to formulate a connection between classroom and field science, generate and gather scientific data, foster a passion for the outdoors and gardening, and give back to the community.
| Amount | Date | Recipient(s) | School |
| $2,125 | 05/12 | Erin Colfax | Morristown High School |
Books for "The Nabe"
This project’s purpose is to aid Morristown High School students who attend the Morristown Neighborhood House (the Nabe) in the skill of learning to read. We will provide the Nabe with a leveled library. It will also train the Nabe staff on how to use the library, what reading strategies to teach, and what expectations to set so that the library can be as effective as possible. Great efforts are being made in the district to improve the skills of struggling readers, and this project will afford them the opportunity to read appropriate books.
| Amount | Date | Recipient(s) | School |
| $600 | 05/12 | Lance Lieberman | Hillcrest School/The Neighborhood House |
Stand Together
Sussex Avenue School and Alfred Vail School will kick off the 2012-2013 school year on a positive note by screening the anti-bullying and character education program Stand Together! From Motivational Productions for the entire student body and faculty. This three-screen multimedia program will capture the students’ interest, build background for the “Week of Respect” beginning in October, and set the tone for Character Education for the rest of the school year. The Week of Respect provides age-appropriate instruction focusing on preventing HIB.
| Amount | Date | Recipient(s) | School |
| $885 | 05/12 | Melissa Dodge | Sussex Avenue School |
Underwater Robotics
This project will be conducted in the high school Robotics course. Currently students have made underwater ROVs or robots that maneuver around the pool at MHS. As students test the ROVs, they have started to explore the reasons why we would need or want to use underwater robots. Companies are engineering underwater vehicles to explore the bottom of the ocean, shipwrecks, underwater structures, etc. The students will be able to mount a camera on their robot to view the bottom of the pool and to perform tests in maneuvering, picking up payloads, and mapping contours of the pool. Students will communicate with engineers at MIT’s Laboratory for Autonomous Marine Sensing Systems. This grant will be for the purchase of five underwater cameras.
| Amount | Date | Recipient(s) | School |
| $695 | 05/12 | Lauren Rush Shohen | Morristown High School |
