Over 40 Innovative STEM Projects Win O&R Grants Totaling Nearly $37,000
Awards Support Science Studies in Rockland, Orange and Bergen Schools
Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc. (O&R) has awarded grants totaling nearly $37,000 to support over 40 creative, cutting-edge classroom projects that focus on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
O&R’s STEM Classroom Grants provided up to $1,000 each to educators at schools (pre-kindergarten through grade 12) and youth group leaders for the 2021-2022 school year in communities located within O&R’s service area. The winning projects featured subjects ranging from robotics to hydroponics and solar to wind power.
Port Jervis Middle School Life Science teacher Megan Wieboldt, right, briefs her seventh-grade students on the finer points of operating a LEGO Mindstorms EV3 robot made possible by an O&R STEM Classroom Grant. O&R’s Strategic Partnerships Manager Linda Feger, center, was observing the project in action during this class. The photo was taken prior to the implementation of COVID-19 masking and social distancing protections.
Talented, hard-working, thoughtful teachers have crafted ambitious, interesting, ingenious, sparkling lesson plans that dazzle. These out-of-the-box proposals are designed to challenge students to think, plan, act and achieve --- and have fun doing it.
O&R President and CEO Robert Sanchez said, “O&R is proud to support our teachers and students with STEM grants that can help to create future leaders in science, technology, engineering and math.”
The grants were awarded based on a review of teacher-submitted proposals by the O&R STEM Education Advisory Council, a panel of educators and engineers assembled by O&R expressly for this purpose.
Over the past seven years, O&R has awarded 277 STEM Classroom Grants totaling nearly $247,000. Those grants ranged from $307 to $1,000.
The 2021-2022 Orange County winners are:
- Chester Academy- Chester Schools
- J. Russell Elementary School – Pine Bush Schools
- Highland Falls Intermediate School – Highland Falls Ft. Montgomery Schools
- Twin Towers Middle School – Middletown Schools
- Otisville Elementary School – Minisink Valley Schools
- Middletown Day Nursery – Private School
- Smith Clove Elementary School - Monroe-Woodbury Schools
- Orange-Ulster BOCES CTE – BOCES
- Pine Bush Elementary School – Pine Bush Schools
- SS Seward Institute – Florida Schools
- North Main St. Elementary – Monroe-Woodbury Schools
- Golden Hill Elementary School – Florida Schools
- Northern Academy of the Arts – Private School
- Tuxedo High School – Tuxedo Schools
- Monhagen Middle Schools – Middletown Schools
- George Grant Mason Elementary School – Tuxedo Schools
- MHA Preschool at Temple Sinai - Private School
- MHA Preschool at Temple Sinai – Private School
- Smith Clove Elementary School – Monroe-Woodbury Schools
The 2021-2022 Rockland County winners are:
- Fieldstone Middle School – North Rockland Schools
- Tappan Zee High School – S.Orangetown Schools
- Willow Grove Elementary – North Rockland Schools
- Fleetwood Elementary – North Rockland Schools
- Rockland BOCES in Suffern Middle School - BOCES
- North Rockland High School - North Rockland Schools
- Haverstraw Elementary School – North Rockland Schools
- Orangetown Middle School – S.Orangetown Schools
- Fieldstone Middle School – North Rockland Schools
- Fieldstone Middle School – North Rockland Schools
- Stony Point Elementary School – North Rockland Schools
- Fieldstone Middle School – North Rockland Schools
- Pearl River High School – Pearl River Schools
- Viola Elementary School – Suffern Schools
The 2021-2022 Bergen County winners are:
- Memorial Elementary School – Montvale Public Schools
- Acton Academy of Bergen County – Private School
- Academies of Gerrard Berman Day School – Private School
- Saint Joseph’s Regional High School – Private School
- Northvale Public School --- Northvale Public Schools
- Valley Middle School – Oakland Public Schools
The 2021-2022 Passaic County winner is:
- Christ the King Nursery School – Private School
About Orange & Rockland
Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc. (O&R), a wholly owned subsidiary of Consolidated Edison, Inc., one of the nation’s largest investor-owned energy companies, is a regulated utility. O&R provides electric service to approximately 300,000 customers in southeastern New York State (where its franchise name is Orange & Rockland) and northern New Jersey (where it’s Rockland Electric Company) and natural gas service to approximately 130,000 customers in New York.