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STEAM Makerspace, Deer Valley School District

Highland Lakes School

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A makerspace is a collaborative workplace on a school campus, and I would love to create one on my K-8 campus. Highland lakes is a unique public school in that it is a true K-8 school with a true elementary school and a true middle school. Additionally, we have a program for highly gifted students that operates as a separate arm of the school. And finally, we have an amazing music program for our students- full band, choir and orchestra. What we do not have, however, is a space on our campus that can provide students the opportunity to flex their creative muscles in a hands-on way. A makerspace on a school campus such as ours would  provide this experience, and enhance the collaborative and innovative projects that are a cornerstone of our gifted programs. Instead of just focusing on the typical Science, Tech, Engineering and Math that are most common with makerspaces, our school’s would incorporate an artistic component for students to explore and extend current passions and also be introduced to new artistic processes. Our students have the talent and desire, but they often don’t have access to the materials that can drive those ambitions. I want to change that on our campus.

Bales Garden Clean Up, Buckeye Elementary School District

Bales Elementary

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We have a campus garden that is in need to some TLC.  We started the campus garden for STEM and the Garden Club maintained the garden.  We have not had a Garden club this year.  The garden has been neglected and is seriously overgrown.  We would love to clean up the area and possible start a new club or open the garden up for STEM activities in the Spring.

We would love to add benches, metal arches for trailing plants and have $$ to purchase plants, soil, gardening equipment.

Thank you for your consideration.

Edison School of Innovation Grow Our Garden, Glendale Charter School

Edison School of Innovation

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We will be installing our shade structure and outdoor classroom for our new school garden. We also would like to add signage and a little library to our garden.

Peaceful Playgrounds, Alhambra Elementary School District

James W. Rice

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James W. Rice is a K-8th grade campus that includes four classrooms for Nonverbal Autism students. We’d like to create a dynamic, inclusive, and stimulating environment that promotes students’ physical, emotional, and cognitive development. Peaceful Playgrounds offers stencils that we could use to create such a space.  It also offers a peaceful Corner to provide students with an opportunity to resolve conflicts before an adult steps in.

Our current area has outdated numbers where students used to line up.  It is insufficient and doesn’t meet the needs of our growing student population.  Studies have shown that play is critical to the development of children, influencing their physical health, social skills, and academic performance.  By investing in simple, safe, and reusable stencils, we can create spaces all around our campus.  We can significantly improve the quality of our students’ recess experience. Some of the benefits include motor skills, coordination and balance, problem-solving, creativity, concentration, and emotional resilience, to name a few.  This would be a space that ALL students could benefit from.

We would be grateful for the opportunity to bring these experiences to our students at James W. Rice.

Let’s have an Artsy Adventure, Peoria Unified School District

Foothills Elementary School

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Foothills needs a little face lift.  We have a couple of projects in mind.  One is to paint some fun 4 square and hopscotch grids on the play ground for students to play at recess.  Our second project is to spruce up our Art room.  The cabinet doors in the art room need new coverings and the floors need to be scraped down and polished.

Supplies:

• colorful outdoor paint – for the outdoor play grids
• patterns for the 4 square and hopscotch grids
• painters tape to mark them out
• power washer to clean the area
• durable wallpaper for the Art cabinets – 38 doors
• scrapers for the art room floor