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SPRING 2011 Grants

PROJECT TITLE: 
Sound System/Microphone in High School gym
Requestor: Steven Chaffee

PROJECT SUMMARY:
Replace the High School gym sound system

HHS

$3713

PROJECT TITLE:
Smart Board in the TLC Requestor: Jill Reese/Michael Mancuso

PROJECT SUMMARY:
Purchase a smart board for the High School Learning Center

HHS

$1643

PROJECT TITLE: 
Hamburg High School Students of the Year Program Requestor: Amanda Bolin/Tim Pope

PROJECT SUMMARY:
Offer appropriate gifts to the students recognized as Student of the Year by their teachers

HHS

$498.92

PROJECT TITLE:
HHS Student Recycling Project Going Green 2011
Requestor: Christopher Dudek

PROJECT SUMMARY:
Purchase of 10 Recycling Containers

HHS

$600

PROJECT TITLE: 
Financial Literacy Awareness Requestor: Amanda Bolin

PROJECT SUMMARY:
Purchase supplies for use in presenting financial and increasing financial literacy

HHS

$600

PROJECT TITLE:
Hamburg High School Mentor Program
Requestor: Jill Berdysiak/Laura Sabia/Kathleen Battin

PROJECT SUMMARY:
High School students to mentor students from Middle School and Elementary Schools

HHS

$1000

2010 Fall Grants awarded included $500 for HHS/BVS Mentor Program

PROJECT TITLE: 
Assistive Technology Resource Closet Requestor: Lisa Cauley

PROJECT SUMMARY:
Purchase equipment to be used district wide for special education students

HHS

$5600

PROJECT TITLE: 
iPad as an Assessment Tool and a Teaching Tool
Requestor: Jennifer Perri

PROJECT SUMMARY:
Purchase of an iPad for use in the classroom

HMS

$609.85

PROJECT TITLE:
Explore New Lands with the iPad Requestor: Melissa McGloin

PROJECT SUMMARY:
The use of iPad applications will enhance the learning environement because the virtual activities allowed will improve understanding of core subject areas

HMS

$1109.25

PROJECT TITLE: 
Project Adventure integrated into the HMS Physical Ed Program Requestor: Mark Warner/Patricia Blake/Brian Carroll/Kurt Grobe

PROJECT SUMMARY:
Purchase materials to built the project adventure program

HMS

$583.50

PROJECT TITLE:
Family and Consumer Science Students Learning the Convenience of Using a Food Processor Requestor: Janelle Kopsa

PROJECT SUMMARY:
Purchase food processors to replace outdated ones in the food lab

HMS

$953

PROJECT TITLE: 
History Alive-The Civil War Day Requestor: Jason Steinagle

PROJECT SUMMARY:
The young adults will be immersed in the Civil War era through stories, demonstrations, and artifacts offered by historians and reenactors.

HMS

$2500

PROJECT TITLE:
Applying Apps to Speech Therapy and Early Intervention
Requestor: Sarah Shafer

PROJECT SUMMARY:
Purchase of iPad2 to implement technology into speech therapy

AES

$1750

Full funding requested by Leslie

PROJECT TITLE: 
Guided Reading Resources for 3-5 Requestor: Margaret Domres

PROJECT SUMMARY:
Purchase of books for different reading levels.

AES

$1700

Partial funding requested by Leslie

PROJECT TITLE:
Guided Reading Resources for K-2 Requestor: Maureen Garra

PROJECT SUMMARY:
Purchase of books for different reading levels.

AES

$1750

Partial funding requested by Leslie

PROJECT TITLE:
Anne Schraff novels Requestor: Antoinette Montagna/Erin Laughlin/Cara Koselny/Marilyn Reardon

PROJECT SUMMARY:
Students will partake in novel studies of three historical fiction novels by Anne Schraff.

AES

$846.75

Partial funding requested by Leslie

PROJECT TITLE: 
Wii Fitness System for Occupational Therapy Students Requestor: Mollie Pietrosanto

PROJECT SUMMARY:
Purchase of a Wii system to help students strengthen their endurance, fine and gross motor skills within their IEP goals.

AES

$384.95

PROJECT TITLE:
Using Digital Flip Cameras in a Second Grade Classroom to Promote Learning Requestor: Carrie Aman

PROJECT SUMMARY:
Students will be encouraged and driven to work harder while tapping into their creative juices through the use of digital flip cameras.

AES

$650

 

PROJECT TITLE: 
First Grade Podcasts
Requestor: Jacquelyn Rasulo

PROJECT SUMMARY:
First grade students will work in cooperative groups to research a topic, gather important facts, write and present to their classmates. Presentations will be recorded.

BVS

$1798.89

PROJECT TITLE:
Go Green in the Primary Classroom Using Netbooks
Requestor: Tammy Roberts/Melissa Quinones/MaryBeth Diggins

PROJECT SUMMARY:
Purchase an additional 10 Netbooks

BVS

$5000 

2010 Fall Grants awarded included $500 for Go Green in the Primary Classrooms Using Netbooks.

 

PROJECT TITLE: 
Piano Keyboard Lab
Requestor: Juanita Huber

PROJECT SUMMARY:
Purchase equipment to create a piano keyboard lab for elementary general music program.

CAS

$991.52

PROJECT TITLE:
Caring and Sharing Cookbook Requestor: Nancy Dennis

PROJECT SUMMARY:
Students will compile a cookbook from family recipes and the books will be sold at a profit to go to local charities.

CAS

$650

PROJECT TITLE: 
Meeting the Needs of First Grade Students with the New Common Core Curriculum in Mathematics Requestor: Sandra Wittmeyer

PROJECT SUMMARY:
Purchase materials to be used in hands-on explorations in mathematics in order to provide students with appropriate experiences in math.

UPES

$490.05

PROJECT TITLE:
Utilizing Tablet Computing Technology to Increase Language Learning in Students with Special Needs
Requestor: Marie Hennessy/Mary Galac/Jennifer Carducci

PROJECT SUMMARY:
Purchase of 3 iPads with Proloquo2Go communications

UPES

$2366.81

PROJECT TITLE: 
Primary Music Gameplan
Requestor: Jeanette Benson

PROJECT SUMMARY:
Provide updated resources for the primary music classroom

UPES

$1105

PROJECT TITLE:
SMART Response PE System
Requestor: Jennifer Firth/Patrick Wirth

PROJECT SUMMARY:
Purchase of a smart response system

UPES

$1525

2010 Fall Grants awarded included $3000 for UPES SMART Response

PROJECT TITLE: 
Smart Response LE and PE systems for Interactive Student Based Learning and Evaluation Requestor: ElizabethPatane/Marylou Tokarski/Linday Aromola

PROJECT SUMMARY:
Purchase of SMART response LE and PE systems

UPES

$3675

2010 Fall Grants awarded included $3000 for UPES SMART Response

PROJECT TITLE:
iPad 2 Presents UPES TV
Requestor: John Borden/Amy Takacs/Teri Bebak, Matthew Bermingham/Joanne Yovienne

PROJECT SUMMARY:
Use Apple’s iPad 2 and UltraHD Flip cameras to create a newcast that will be posted on the web for others to view and comment on.

UPES

$1983.92

TOTAL

$ 46,078.41

FALL 2011 Grants

PROJECT TITLE: 
Is there a movie for this book? Submitter-Nicole Lesinski/Scott Weidmann

PROJECT SUMMARY:
Use a digital video in the classroom to facilitate the student

HHS

$299.99

PROJECT TITLE:
Smart Board for Learning Submitter-Tricia Zemla

PROJECT SUMMARY:
Registration fee for the conference. All other travel will be paid personally.

HHS

$1711

PROJECT TITLE: 
Gymnastic Spring Floor Submitter- Bob Beach

PROJECT SUMMARY:
Purchase a spring floor kit to build a new gymnastic spring floor.

HHS

$7882.69

PROJECT TITLE:
Assistive Technology Resource Closet Submitter-Lisa Cauley

PROJECT SUMMARY:
Create a district wide resource closet of Assistive Technology equipment for special education students who have difficulties with participation in the academic setting.

HHS

$5202.96

PROJECT TITLE: 
Inspiring Minds: Graduation Coach Program Submitter-

PROJECT SUMMARY:
Fund a program to have a “Coach” work with at risk students.

HHS

$3850

PROJECT TITLE:
Plug Students into Math with the iPad Submitter-Jodi Follett

PROJECT SUMMARY:
Purchase of an iPad

HMS

$716369.90

PROJECT TITLE: 
Hamburg Middle School Zip-Line Course Submitter-Robert Ziegler

PROJECT SUMMARY:
HMS physical ed and science departments are collaboratively seeking to build a zip-line course.

HMS

$320.78

PROJECT TITLE:
History Alive- The Civil Way Day Submitter- Jason Steinagle

PROJECT SUMMARY:
The young adults will be immersed in the Civil War era through stories, demonstrations and artifacts offered by historians and reenactors.

HMS

$2500

PROJECT TITLE: 
Lumen Visual Presenter
Submitter- Sherry Pfohl

PROJECT SUMMARY:
Purchase of this devise to be used with the multimedia projector.

HMS

$340

PROJECT TITLE:
AIMSweb Computer-Based Screening: iPad Initiative
Submitter-Michelle Clarke

PROJECT SUMMARY:
Purchase of an iPad to help screen students

AES

$617

PROJECT TITLE: 
Store More Deluxe Chair Pockets for Organization
Submitter-Erin Holstein

PROJECT SUMMARY:
Chair pockets offer a great way for students to organize materials to go home at the end of the day.

BVS

$585.07

PROJECT TITLE:
Informational Text for Success
Submitter-Tracy Tone/Kim Van Wagnen

PROJECT SUMMARY:
Purchase books that will work in conjunction with current 5th grade reading program.

CAS

$1000

PROJECT TITLE: 
World/African Drumming for primary students
Submitter-Jeanette Benson

PROJECT SUMMARY:
Build the music classrooms instrumental equipment to a level which will allow all students the opportunity to play during class.

UPES

$355.20

TOTAL

NET AMOUNT TO BE FUNDED

$25,380.69

$ 11,148.00