Education Foundation Makes $225,000 Donation to Millburn-Short Hills Schools

The Education Foundation of Millburn-Short Hills, a local nonprofit dedicated to “raising the educational bar for the township’s public schools,” has donated over $225,000 to the district.

According to a release, the donation will be used to fund school programs including STEM, the arts and character education.

Funding for grants comes from a combination of annual memberships and funds raised via annual events such as Fall Festival, Evening of Honor, Millburn Schools Rock and the Millburn Film Fest.

The Education Foundation was able to donate over $225K in full or partial funding to the following programs:

Millburn High School

Sound System-$30,000

Studio 462 Equipment-$23,000

Computer Science/Robotics-$7060

Adventure Ropes Course Addition-$10,000

The Math Part 2: The Journey Continues-$2,500

Imaginative Realism-$4,000

Arudino Quad Rotor- $350

Millburn Middle School

9 SMART Boards-$18,270

Intermediate Robotics-$2,900

Hands On Electricity Lab-$671

Additional Computer Capacity-$5492

XBOX Kinect: $1,075

Deerfield Elementary School

Information and Technology Center: $23,068

Second Grade STEM: $1,075

Glenwood Elementary School

Sound System: $13,339

Stand Up Desks: $7,513

SMART Board: $2668

Hartshorn Elementary School

SMART Boards: $18,292

STEMsational Robots: $3,000

Poetry Alive: $900

SMART Interactive Response Clickers: $1,494

Buddy Bench: $750

South Mountain Elementary School

Comp. & Media Collaboratory: $19,993

12 C’s of Character Development: $2,500

Buddy Bench: $750

Wyoming Elementary School

Maker Space ala Carte: $7,705

Wyoming Weather Station: $1,126

Wyoming School Greenhouse: $2,100

iPad and STEM Integration: $10,471

SMART Interactive Response Clickers: $2,106

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