REACH 2015-2016 Grants Awarded

The REACH Foundation has funded over $150,000 to RCSD in Grants and Scholarships since 1998. On the evening of  December 15, 2015 we presented our 2015 Grant Recipients at the Board of Education meeting. Criteria for a REACH Grant is ‘innovative educational programming’ and once again our teachers knocked it out of the park. These initiatives are above and beyond their day-to-day classroom responsibilities and we thank them for sharing their enthusiasm and creativity with our children.

The following is a listing of all the innovative educational programs that were awarded a REACH Grant:

Suffern High School

• Visiting Artist Medical Illustration (Berges)
• Creating Graphic Novels (Fella, MacKenzie & Martinello)

Suffern Middle School

• Promoting Social-Emotional Learning (Boehning)
• Yoga Calm Classroom (Jaffee)
• When Fibonacci Met Stella (Wickes)

RP Connor

• Meaning Math (Brennan)
• Student Tutorials (Grammerstorf & Brennan)

Montebello

• Buddy Bench (Cancro)
• Project Fish Habitat (Hirsch)
• Science, Plants & Ceramics (Lappetito)
• Illustrating Scientific Concepts (Tanis)
• Through Stop Gap Animation

Sloatsburg

• Avian Aerial Artworks (Dolan)
• Reading Pens (McDonough)

Viola

• Finch Robots (Butler)
• Hydroponics (Celli)
• Tinkering to Design and Create (Hammond)
• Biofeedback Basics (O’Keefe)
• Calder Inspired Mobiles (Reisenauer)

You can see these projects in action at the STEAM Expo – 11:00 to 3:00pm on March 6, 2016 at Suffern High School.