Grants In Action | South Meck Foundation

Here are some of the ways the grants given to our teachers have made a difference:

Daily School Announcements made possible using grant funded Fire TV Stick
Project Lead The Way micropipettes
Purchased authentic human bones kits for our Forensics classes
Furnished start-up costs and supplies for a new Coding Club
Funded a retention pond for hands-on learning in
Biology classes
Sponsored the Speech and Debate team so they could compete state-wide
Covered cost for science books in French, Chinese, and German in support of our World Language magnet, plus
nearly 200 books for our 32 AP courses
Supplied start-up costs for the school’s new
Literary Magazine

Front Row: Leslie Highfill, Gabriela Neufeld, Katie Linker, Kaitlin Craig, Jinko Dailey

Back Row: William Fullenwider, DeAnna Hoobler, Magdalena Clinton, Hyelynn Koo

Missing: Hildegardo Avila-Carranza, Nela Sprinkle, Jessica Rios-Olivares, Jacqueline Jenkins,

Teresa Blaine, Mollie Peterson, Katlyn Villier, Carrie DeWilliams, Amy McNelis

ACT Prep Class reading materials.
Refrigerator for Biology Department.
20 copies of “La distancia entre nostros” for Spanish for Native Speakers class.
Site license for “Generation Genious” for Extension students.
2 Spectrophotometers for Chemistry students.
Headphones with microphone for World Language department to use for testing.
Forensics Science lab supplies.
Japanese World Language -expenses for gift exchange with Japanese Global Exchange students.
Go-Direct Wireless Gas Pressure Sensor Probes for Biomedical Science students.
pGLO Bacterial Transformation lab kits for AP Biology students.
Equipment and supplies for Biomedical Science Pathway students.
Costs for Future Problem Solvers Club competition.
Funded cost of guest speaker to advise and supplement instruction on public for AP Seminar class.
Mini-Greenhouse kit and seeds for Botany Club.
American Sign Language conference fees for 2 ASL teachers.
Shed, locks, storage and wheel barrows for National Math & Science Honor Society.
Botany End of Year project to fix up the pond on campus. Pond will be recognized as a wildlife habitat.

Purchase of EC leveled book sets for EC English
Purchase of CTE 2 sets of micropippettes for PLTW (Project Lead the Way )Biomedical Science
Purchase of a firestick for Main Office TV For communication from Counseling Staff
Purchase of novel sets “We are Witnesses” for the English department
Purchase of book set for the English department
Purchase of technology for the English department
Purchase of technology for the Math department
Purchase of Pear Deck software subscription for CTE Business & Finance
Purchase of technology for EC department
Purchase of art supplies for student displays at local exhibit
Funded conference fee for World Language Conference
Purchase of Coffee Cart and coffee pot to create a coffee shop on campus where the students work and manage so they can work on social & life skills for EC department
Purchase of Club Vex components for Tech, Robotics, Engineering Clubs
Purchase of required reading/classroom set “In the Time of Butterflies” by Julia Alvarez for Civics and Econ
Purchase of Cart, PowerPoint clicker, supplies for mobile Math classroom
Purchase of 10 3 book sets for Honors Leadership and Learning
Purchase of Screen Cloud software subscription which allows announcements and community events to be displayed on screens across campus (has been purchased for 2018-19, 2019-20 & 2020-2021)
Replaced the Nuke Amplifier for band students

Purchase of over 100 Spanish language fiction books available for check-out to native language ELL students, novice Spanish students to AP World Language Magnet students
Purchase of Fixture Displays cell phone iPad mini charging station lockers mail slots
Purchase of a full set of state and territory flags