This fall, educators across the district submitted applications totaling just over $75,000 for individual grant projects. Thanks to donor generosity to the Mardi Lowry McDonough ’87 Student Opportunity Fund & Grant Program, the Education Foundation funded 38 projects totaling $30,260. With your support, more projects can be funded this spring. Consider a tax-deductible donation before December 31, 2024, to make an impact in 2025. Visit scasdfoundation.org/ways-to-give to make a secure online donation. Extend the impact of your generosity by setting up a monthly recurring gift.
Fall grants:
Easterly Parkway Elementary
Family Reading Picnic
The Re-Set Room
Ferguson Township Elementary
Bully Prevention through Literature
Flexible Seating
Heavy Work in the Zone: Nervous System and The Zone of Regulation
Sensory tools for learning and emotional regulation
Empowering Minds through Sensory Tools
Let’s Make Music Together: Promoting SEL through music
Grays Woods Elementary
Supplies and mentoring for 2nd grade opera project
Mount Nittany Elementary
Flexible seating
Mobile book browser
Diverse texts for a classroom library
Community experiences
Spring Creek Elementary
Sensory Comfort Zone
Park Forest Middle School
Open Mic events for writing students
Mount Nittany Middle School
Step Afrika performance
Standing desk for 8th grade Academic Literacy
Readers in the Huddle: Increasing readership through sports
Mount Nittany Middle & Elementary Schools
PALS Program
Park Forest & Ferguson Township Elementary Schools
Lego Education Prime sets for First Lego League Robotics Challenge Team
Multiple Elementary Schools
5th grade Reading Team books
DELTA
Mural
Greenhouse project
Stationary bikes
RIT
Partnership with Doing Good with Wood
Virtual K-8
Curricular and extracurricular experiences
SCAHS CTC
Basic tissue types microscope slides
SCAHS
Materials Chemistry research program
PBIS Initiative
Career and work services program
NAHS mural project
Researching and displaying work on global issues affecting the world’s food, water and plant supply
Fashion design afterschool group
Elementary choir
We Sing! choral music
Elementary orchestra
¼ sized bass for strings program
Orchestra 4-12
Guest artists workshop
ELD K-12
ELD student tee shirts for English learners for 24-25 events
Library districtwide
District-wide community reading event: SCASD Reads Animal Adventures
