This holiday season sees a flood of new STEM toys marketed just for girls. Here are six contenders. The shortage of women in computer science and tech has been a topic of heated discussion and much teeth-gnashing. . Given that…
STAND UP AND CHEER - Montebello Elementary's Jennifer Cancro and SMS's Beth Byrne Boehning . . . Flashback Fall 2013 - Both RCSD teachers applied for & received REACH Grants for AlphaBetter Stand Up Desks. The AlphaBetter Student desk allows…
The REACH Foundation is proud to be the catalyst in bringing Driver’s Education to Suffern High School for Ramapo Central students. This 16-week program provides 24 hours of classroom instruction by a NYS certified teacher who is also certified in…
For our friends who preferred more “sedate” activities, REACH started our first annual Wine Tasting event in the fall of 2006. Hors d’oeuvres, fine wines and fun times were served! It was even educational!
Bringing together all members of our community, REACH “ran” our first annual Family Fun Run the spring of 2006. Due to it's overwhelming success the event evolved to a “marathon” event each spring.
One of REACH's most expansive project was the construction of an outdoor amphitheater/classroom at Suffern High School. This landscaping proved to be a beautiful and inspiring setting for outdoor classes during and after school, a place for extracurricular groups to…
Another inter-generational program exposing students to history! Students from the Ramapo Central School District researched historical topics, formulated questionnaires and interviewed senior citizens based on life experiences of the seniors. Topics such as the Holocaust, the Korean War, life in…
In 2000, REACH initiates a senior citizen computer educational program at Suffern High School, free of charge. Senior citizens were taught how to work a computer, navigate the web and email their grandchildren. This was an intergenerational program where students…
