Gov. Whitmer boosts funding for schools including Mt. Morris and Atherton to expand science, technology, engineering and math programs  

Alcona Community Schools

$6,892 to expand 3-P learning across grades 6-7-8 using the lens of coastal and wetland habitats.

Alpena Public Schools

$8,078 to facilitate a program where students work as scientific researchers collecting data and making observations to determine if environmental issues are impacting the Thunder Bay River Watershed.

Arvon Township School

$5,000 for students to adopt two beaches in the township in partnership with the Alliance for the Great Lakes. Students and families will participate in science lessons, Earth Force Environmental Inventories and field trips that directly involve the land and beaches they have adopted and expose them to careers in science, engineering and natural resource management.

Atherton Community Schools

$10,000 to engage 195 middle and high school science students in 3-P learning through its “Health in Our Hands” curriculum, conduct three health summits, and provide professional learning for four middle and high school science teachers.

Charlevoix-Emmet Intermediate School District

$20,000 to institutionalize 3-P learning to schools across their ISD by supporting teachers, partnering with community and/or businesses and engaging students.

Farmington Public Schools

$15,870 to incorporate “student voice” in water steward topics and institutionalize 3-P teaching and learning in the district.

Forest Hills Central Woodlands 5/6 School

$20,000 to provide 3-P learning experiences for students including transportation for all students to visit the Inland Seas Schooner and engage in the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) program through Inland Seas Education Association.

Grand Rapids Montessori, Grand Rapids Public Schools

$8,862 to help students identify and begin solving the problem of habitat loss for local pollinators, bird and turtle species in the city through a partnership with educators at John Ball Zoo.

Harrington Elementary School

$12,000 for Marshall Public Schools to partner with Albion College to develop “outdoors at school” curricula for grades K-5 to be piloted at Harrington Elementary School including field trips to the college’s Whitehouse Nature Center.

Kalamazoo Regional Educational Service Agency

$20,000 to support Southwest MiSTEM and the Kalamazoo Nature Center to establish a Great Lakes Stewardship Initiative hub to continue water stewardship education programs like monitoring efforts on the Kalamazoo River.

Mt. Morris Consolidated Schools

Mt. Morris Middle School – $15,000 to continue participation in the Flint River Green project. This student-led endeavor invites students to learn about the Flint River Watershed and its community impact through a partnership with a civil engineer from the Genesee County Drain Commission.

Muskegon Area Intermediate School District

$15,000 to support the expansion and institutionalization of 3-P learning for 420 fourth grade students and 3-P training for 19 fourth grade teachers in partnership Orchard View Schools and Reese-Puffer Schools.

Pickford Public Schools

$9,996 to allow students to continue gathering water quality data from the local watershed using the data sensors deployed during the current school year through the MiWaterNet initiative.

Stanton Township Public Schools

$5,000 to train new teachers to carry out future Lake Superior Stewardship Initiative activities and to sustain student undertakings with the Stanton Township Schools’ gardens.

Washtenaw Intermediate School District

$20,000 to build a foundation for cross-district collaboration in support of freshwater-focused place-based education among teacher teams in southeast Michigan.

Wayne-Westland Community Schools

$13,330 to implement a rigorous, community-centered 3-P learning program which will allow students to begin to see themselves as scientists, innovators, mathematicians, readers and writers.