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Nearly 50 Innovative Stem Projects Win O&R Grants Totaling About $44,000

  • Orange & Rockland Media Relations

  • Pearl River – septiembre 20, 2022 -- 02:00

Awards Support Science Studies in Rockland, Orange and Bergen Schools

Orange & Rockland (O&R) has awarded grants totaling approximately $44,000 to support nearly 50 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-K through 12) and youth group leaders for the 2022-2023 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. See the STEM grants in action.

This student at St. Joseph’s Regional High School in Montvale, N.J. is making all the right connections to complete a successful STEM project

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.” Over the past eight years, O&R has awarded 326 STEM Classroom Grants totaling over $290,000. Those grants ranged from $307 to $1,000.

A complete list of this year’s winners is at the end of this press release.

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.

The 2022-2023 Orange County winners are:

  • YMCA of Middletown First Step Pre-School – Private School
  • Minisink Valley Elementary School --- Minisink Valley Central School District
  • Kids’ Club House
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension Orange County 4-H
  • Circleville Elementary School--- Pine Bush Central School District
  • E.J. Russell Elementary School – Pine Bush Schools
  • Twin Towers Middle School – Middletown Schools
  • Smith Clove Elementary School - Monroe-Woodbury Schools
  • Smith Clove Elementary School --- Monroe-Woodbury Schools
  • Pine Bush Elementary School – Pine Bush Schools
  • SS Seward Institute – Florida Schools
  • North Main St. Elementary – Monroe-Woodbury Schools
  • Monhagen Middle Schools – Middletown Schools
  • George Grant Mason Elementary School – Tuxedo Schools
  • Port Jervis Middle School --- Port Jervis City School District
  • George F. Baker High School --- Tuxedo Union Free School District
  • Goshen Trotttown Explorers’ 4-H Club
  • MHA Preschool at Temple Sinai - Private School
  • MHA Preschool at Temple Sinai – Private School

The 2022-2023 Rockland County winners are:

  • Willow Grove Elementary – North Rockland Schools
  • Spring Valley High School --- East. Ramapo Central School District
  • Camp Bullowa Summer Camp --- Greater Hudson Valley BSA Council
  • Albertus Magnus High School --- Private School
  • Woodglen Elementary School --- Clarkstown Central School District
  • Willow Grove Elementary – North Rockland Schools
  • Pearl River Middle School --- Pearl River Central Schools District
  • Spring Valley High School --- East. Ramapo Central School District
  • Rockland BOCES in TSP at Tappan Zee High School - BOCES
  • Tappan Zee High School – S.Orangetown Schools
  • Benim Scholastic Academy of Haverstraw --- Private School
  • Fleetwood Elementary – North Rockland Schools
  • Benim Scholastic Academy of New City --- Private School
  • Felix Festa Middle School --- Clarkstown Central School District
  • Peace Through Play Nursery School
  • Pearl River High School --- Pearl River Central School District
  • Felix Festa Middle School --- Clarkstown Central School District
  • Fieldstone Middle School – North Rockland Schools
  • Fieldstone Middle School – North Rockland Schools
  • Fieldstone Middle School – North Rockland Schools
  • Stony Point Elementary School – North Rockland Schools

The 2022-2023 Bergen County winners are:

  • Memorial Elementary School – Montvale Public Schools
  • Action Academy of Bergen County – Private School
  • Saint Joseph’s Regional High School – Private School
  • Saint Joseph’s Regional High School --- Private School
  • Northvale Public School --- Public School
  • Heights Elementary School – Oakland Public Schools
  • Harrington Park School --- Harrington Park School District
  • Luther Lee Emerson an dCounty Road School --- Demarest School District

The 2022-2023 Passaic County winner is:

  • Upper Greenwood Lake School District – West Milford Township Public Schools

About O&R

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.

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