The P-H-M Education Foundation announced its Fall Grant Cycle recipients. A total of $18,510 was disbursed to P-H-M staff. See the complete list is below.

Monies raised from PHMEF events like the Silver Mile Bubble Bash Run for Education make these grants possible. Since the Foundation’s inception in 1996, more than $1 million have been distributed in innovative teaching grants supporting P-H-M teachers, staff, and students. 

The Grants Committee is comprised of Foundation board members, community representatives, and a P-H-M administrator who evaluate each grant application. 

EZ Form grant winners of $250 or less:

1. Work Experience Program
   Penn High School – John Mott
   Awarded: $228.89
   Implementing works skills for Exceptional Education students
    
2. Oh Rats! On the Cutting Edge with Rat Dissection
   Penn High School  – Shellie Harshberger​
   Awarded: $195
   Rat dissection kit for freshman biology
    
3. Integrating Sensory Tools to Increase Student Success
   Mary Frank Elementary – Jill Coffman
   Awarded: $90
   Fidget devices and noise canceling headphones
    
4. Snap Circuits for 5th Grade Soft Start Morning Work
   Elsie Rogers Elementary – Rachael Givens
   Awarded: $151.95
   Snap Circuits kits for intro to circuitry and electrics
    
5. Solar Power For a Better Tomorrow
   Penn High School – Jonathan Lockwood
   Awarded: $250
   Solar panels will be used for environmental impact studies
    
6. Science Standard Resource to Support Differentiation with Instruction
   Discovery Middle School – Shelia Toth
   Awarded: $250
   Resource science books to support differentiated instruction
    
7. Shut the Box Algebraic Thinking Games
   Elsie Rogers Elementary – Carlye Ponsler
   Awarded: $178.68
   Easy to learn, algebraic thinking game for kids and adults
    
8. Creation Station
   Horizon Elementary – Dorene Pond
   Awarded: $239.12
   Art station to help students work through their emotions & refocus on learning​
    
9. SALC-IHSAA Student Leadership Conference
   Penn High School – Jeff Hart/Curt Rallo
   Awarded $250
   Cover registration fees for the student leadership conference
    
10. Horizon Elementary Omnikin Ball Unit
    Horizon Elementary – Danielle Snoeyink
    Awarded $244.99
    Multicolored ball allows for students to play different games outside of traditional ball games
     
11. Chatterboxes
    Mary Frank Elementary – Lindsay Helman​
    Awarded $250
    Boxes allow students to record their voices and reduce background noise
     
12. Building Strong, Unique Young Women Through Art
    Schmucker Middle – Mary Goldthrite-DeKever
    Awarded $237
    Materials for girls to participate in art-based activities that focuses on self-awareness
     
13. Lunch, Munch, Board Games & Doodle With My Bunch
    Schmucker Middle – Mary Goldthrite-DeKeverz
    Awarded $247.48
    Provides games during lunch time
     
14. Guided Math Resources: Learning Wrap-Ups and Puzzle/Game Books
    Elsie Rogers Elementary – Hollie Truckowski
    Awarded $73.91
    Learning tool that utilizes visual and tactical learning senses
     
15. Nonfiction Flashlight Friday
    Elsie Rogers Elementary – Hollie Truckowski
    Awarded $194.99
    Nonfiction books that students can use flashlight behind page to reveal what is hidden in and around different places
     
16. Solar Cooking
    Elsie Rogers Elementary – Diana Mendelsohn
    Awarded $250
    Solar oven fun and unique way to cook food

Full Funding/Traditional Form Grants approved for $250 or more:

1. LAMP Words For Life 
   Horizon Elementary– Mandy Stanifer
   Received $599.98
   LAMP Words for Life is an app program that is a voice output communication aid that allows nonverbal students with autism and/or other disabilities to increase communication skills.
    
2. Hike Through History
   Bittersweet Elementary – Patricia Heidkamp
   Received $938.72
   Hike Through History is for students to have access to materials that will provide them the information to act as a co-creator of a 45-foot timeline poster showing impactful people, landmarks, and historical events.
    
3. Hands Free in PE
   Walt Disney Elementary – Tom Stanton
   Received $558
   Wireless headset microphone to better communicate with students, enable teachers to model technique and interact with students through instructions, and to preserve the vocal health of teachers.
    
4. Concert Lighting for Visual Performance Unit
   Grissom Middle – Heather Baker
   Received $987.25
   Stand lights would be utilized in different capacities to provide a visual component for the audience.
    
5. Maslow Before Bloom SEL Library
   Mary Frank Elementary – Lindsay Helman
   Received $795.36
   Books that cover numerous topics on social emotional learning to help students learn to accept strong emotions and cope effectively.  
    
6. Getting Better, Together
   Penn High School – John Gensic, Jennie Mitchell, Danielle Black
   Received $1,100
   Video reflection software will improve student and teacher classroom speech, practice, dialogue, and engagement via specific timed asynchronous video peer feedback.
    
7. Metal Working to Make Visions Become Reality
   Penn High School – Scott Shelhart
   Received $2,500
   Welding machine to be used for a new after school club – the Kingsmen Metal Society – that will provide exploration and learning opportunities to people that would not otherwise be able to access the metalwork area. This is the first step to working toward involving the Arts in the shop areas, with the option of adding a metal sculpture class.
    
8. It’s All About the Bass … No Treble
   Elsie Rogers Elementary – Erin Elliott
   Received $1,439.69
   This will provide a bass xylophone to the school. With proper care, this instrument can last decades. Adding the instrument will provide more opportunities for students during playing time to practice their music skills.​
    
9. Circuits in 132
   Penn High School – Kylee Wetzel
   Received $326.99
   The circuit machine is a smart machine that can use a computer to design their item they are going to cut. The machine will be used by Penn’s Child Development and Education Professions classes.
    
10. All The Feels: Sensory Word Work
    Walt Disney Elementary – Trisha Leddy
    Received $932
    Sensory word work will enable students to improve their phonemic awareness, sensory development, and social emotional growth.  A container will be filled with a variety of materials to let children explore and manipulate letter, words, and sounds. It will also help children develop fine motor skills, cognitive skills, and language skills. 
     
11. Leaping Forward with VEX Robotics
    Penn High School – Jim Langfeldt
    Received $5,000
    Starting in 2004, VEX Robotics Platform has been the backbone of mostly all applied pre-engineering projects in the STEM academy. This will provide updated materials allowing students to design, build, program, and test autonomous vehicles.

Click to see the Fall 2018 Grant Recipients.