O&R Awards STEM Studies Grants To Rockland Schools

from O&R Utilities

PEARL RIVER, NY — Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc. has awarded grants totaling over $35,000 to support creative, cutting-edge classroom projects in Rockland and Orange counties for the 2023-24 school year.

Those projects in both counties focus on science, technology, engineering and mathematics, known as STEM.

More than 20 Rockland County classroom projects totaling over $20,000 were honored and another almost 20 Orange County projects totaling nearly $15,000 were recognized, too.

They were part of the Classroom Grants program which provided funding totaling $50,000 for over 50 STEM projects in Orange, Rockland, Sussex, Passaic, and Bergen counties, all located within O&R’s service area. O&R operates in New Jersey under its affiliate name Rockland Electric Company.

To see the STEM grants in action, please click for a video.

Talented, hard-working, thoughtful teachers have crafted ambitious, interesting, ingenious, sparkling lesson plans that dazzle. These dynamic proposals are designed to challenge students to think, plan, act and succeed — and have fun doing it.

O&R President and CEO Robert Sanchez said, “O&R is proud to support our teachers and students with STEM grants that can help to create future leaders in science, technology, engineering and math.”

Over the past nine years, O&R has awarded 365 STEM Classroom Grants totaling over $341,000. Those grants ranged from $185 to $1,000.

The grants were awarded based on a review of teacher-submitted proposals by the O&R STEM Education Advisory Council, a panel of educators and engineers assembled by O&R expressly for this purpose.

The 2023-24 Rockland County, N.Y. winners are:

• Bardonia and West Nyack Elementary Schools

• Benim Academy of Haverstraw
• Benim Academy of New City
• Camp Bullowa Boy Scout Summer Camp
• Clarkstown Central School District
• Cottage Lane Elementary School
• Evans Park Elementary School
• Fieldstone Elementary School
• Fleetwood Elementary School
• Haverstraw Elementary School
• Laurel Plains Elementary School
• Peace Through Play Nursery School
• Pearl River School District
• Rockland BOCES based at A. MacArthur Barr Middle School
• Rockland BOCES River View high School
• Sloatsburg Elementary School
• Stony Point Elementary School
• Woodglen Elementary School