North Kitsap Schools Foundation awards $53K in grants

POULSBO — The North Kitsap Schools Foundation recently awarded 29 grants worth nearly $53,000 to support enriching learning opportunities for North Kitsap students during the 2017-18 school year.

As a result, North Kitsap High School students will use iPads and 3D apps to study anatomy, the Burke Museum will bring hands-on presentations on ecosystems and Native Americans to Vinland Elementary fourth-graders, and Kingston Middle School seventh-graders will dissect frogs.

“All 10 North Kitsap Schools received grants based on their individual priorities,” foundation President Shannon Singleton said.

“Some requested necessities, such as science equipment and library books. Others focused on things that make learning exciting for kids, including field trips, MakerSpace supplies and STEM activities.”

The latest round of grants brings the total awarded by the foundation since 2012 to $300,000. Here’s a complete list of 2017-18 grants:

• North Kitsap School District Assistive Technology Team, $2,500 for accessible toys, switches and laptops for special education students in preschool-fifth grade.

• Gordon Elementary, $2,000 to pay paraeducators in the before-school academic lab.

• Gordon Elementary, $2,500 for a Museum of Flight “reverse field trip” and materials for a STEM celebration (partnership with Kingston Rotary).

• Gordon Elementary, $1,522 for LEXIA Core 5 licenses for individualized reading intervention.

• Kingston High School, $1,556 for pipettes and tips for biology and AP biology (partnership with Kingston Rotary).

• Kingston High School, $4,000 for four sets of adjustable badminton/pickle ball/volleyball nets and standards (partnership with Kingston Rotary).

• Kingston Middle School, $550 for books for a counselor-led book club to teach social/emotional and reading skills.

• Kingston Middle School, $396 for frogs for dissection in seventh-grade science class.

• Kingston Middle School, $1,600 for subscription for classroom sets of “Science World” magazine.

• North Kitsap High School, $2,300 for primary and secondary source readers for AP World History.

• North Kitsap High School, $1,000 for eight copies of DSM 5 for AP Psychology.

• North Kitsap High School, $4,950 for 11 iPads to access 3D human body apps for Athletic Medicine and Anatomy/Physiology (partnership with Poulsbo Rotary).

• North Kitsap High School, $500 for materials to provide functional communication activities such as cooking and community dining for special education students.

• North Kitsap High School, $3,000 for Vernier interfaces, sensors and probes for Agriculture Education (partnership with Town & Country Markets).

• North Kitsap High School, $3,000 for greenhouse equipment and planting materials for farm-to-table Agriculture Education and Culinary Arts (partnership with Town & Country Markets).

• Pearson Elementary, $1,015 for Bremerton Symphony OrKidstra Concert field trip.

• Pearson Elementary, $2,250 iPads with cases and charging stations for music composition.

• Poulsbo Middle School, $5,000 for eight laptops to access online science resources, such as astronomy simulators (partnership with Poulsbo Lions).

• Poulsbo Middle School, $1,600 for classroom sets of “Science World” magazine (partnership with Poulsbo Rotary).

• Poulsbo Elementary, $650 for 23 cool-down kits and 10 reset stations to support emotional and behavioral regulation.

• Poulsbo Elementary, $350 for “World Book Online” subscription for all-school access in the library.

• Suquamish Elementary, $700 for leveled books for a second-grade classroom library.

• Suquamish Elementary, $3,000 for MakerSpace supplies for budding inventors.

• Suquamish Elementary, $673 for iPad to access PE apps and music.

• Vinland Elementary, $1,455 for state Capitol fourth-grade field trip to support Washington state civics standard.

• Vinland Elementary, $1,300 for BurkeMobile Mini Museum visits to fourth-grade classes for ecosystems and Native American presentations.

• Vinland Elementary, $673 for iPad to access PE apps and music.

• Wolfle Elementary, $500 for materials for monthly STEM activities to support science standards in engineering.

• Wolfle Elememtary, $2,000 for library biography collection to support nonfiction and informational text reading standards.