Adam J. Lewis Academy
AJL After the Bell after-school STEM program for underserved children
AJL After the Bell after-school STEM program for underserved children
Week of the Young Child STEM immersion project to provide children, educators and parents of Berkeley County First Steps with fun and engaging theme-based STEM curricula, resources and activities
Centralized anti-bias, anti-racism library, grade level specific lesson plans for 1st-6th grades, and related teacher training
Small Wonders: Using Science and Nature to Grow Young Minds –integrates science and nature based education into early childhood programs and schools
Funds to purchase supplies for new school library makerspace to support creativity, collaboration and unstructured free play
Think, Solve, Code Program — using technology tools to teach students from grades 1-5 to be critical thinkers, problem solvers and coders
Full STEAM Ahead in the Garden program — garden-based experiential STEAM learning project
Roxbury Youth Initiative — Exploring Ecosystems: The Environment and Me focuses on local wildlife to develop basic understanding of habitats and ecosystems
Cambridge Youth Enrichment Program — Project-based activities to foster appreciation for science and self expression
Franklin I-O Summer — Science Comes to Life
Mission Hill Summer Program — Philosophers of the Concrete Jungle literacy and art history program
Native American Youth Enrichment Program — Honoring Native Voices Today: Intergenerational Learning and Leadership Initiative workshops and activities
Build the Brain and Body with Big Body Play — for at-risk children 18 months through school age to encourage the development of body and brain through big body play
Visual Literacy in the Hands of Students with Visual Impairments project — create 20 lap-size tactile reproductions of selected narrative master artworks to start collection of child-friendly touchable artworks to promote visual and tactile literacy
Collaboration with master storyteller Odds Bodkin to integrate fictional stories and myths for K-3 into the Learning Lab offerings to study effect of storytelling relative to fostering emotional and English language literacy
Expenses related to production of 40 episodes of Midnight Science Club (https://www.midnightscienceclub.com/) and related social media to build and sharpen science thinking skills (https://faradaystudios.com/)
Tablets for animation and garden design for project-based STEM summer program
Adapt farm to school curriculum for early care and education and implement it at Newport Promise Community Early Learning Center