York Suburban Education Foundation

The Awesome Trojan Machine is a robot that High School students built using a kit funded by YSEF grant money. The grant also enabled students to participate in a regional robotics competition.

YSEF GRANT
HS AP Biology students visit the Hershey Medical Center Research Labs.

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To Download the YSEF Grant Application, please click here.

Deadline for fall applications is October 10 - funding for spring semester.

Deadline for spring applications is April 10 - funding for summer programs, fall semester or full upcoming year.

Grant Recipients

Fall 2011 Grant Recipients:
Name	Bldg	Brief Description
Lonna Ashton	YES	Discover to Go
Visiting science enrichment program for the Full Day Kindergarten class at Yorkshire. ($275)
Cheryl Johnson	VV	Kindles in the Classroom
Innovation to help non-motivated 2^nd graders readers. ($656)
Sarah Lawrence/Jesse Weld	HS	Quiz Bowl
Additional buzzer systems so that more students (additional 30) can participate. ($895)
Maggie Sullivan	HS	Student Literary Magazine
To cover the cost of formatting and printing Yourstory. ($800)
Fall 2011 Grant Total: $2,626

Spring 2011 Grant Recipients:
Name	Bldg	Brief Description
Karen Albert	MS	Short Circuits
Purchase of Snap Electricity Circuits for the 6th grade to enhance concept of electricity. ($1,946)
Jennifer Andrews	HS	FitnessGram
Purchase fitness software to collect and analyze fitness assessment data of the students, in addition to a module that allows the students to set goals and track individual results. ($1500)
Denise Fuhrman	HS	Coaching Higher Order Thinking Skills
Purchase 40 copies of the book, "Higher Order Thinking Skills: Challenging All Students to Achieve." This is a professional development tool for the HS faculty that aligns their written curriculum with the expectations of corresponding PA academic standards and designing quality assessments. ($550)
Marilyn Henning	VV @ YES	Raz Kids Reading Program
Purchase 5 licenses of Raz Kids. ($300)
Eric Hoffman	MS	Flipped for Writing
Purchase of a flip camera so students can record, edit and write scripts/narratives for videos. ($715)
Tawn Ketterman/Kevin Willson	VV @ YES	Smart Tables in Early Elementary Classroom
Purchase 3 Smart tables for elementary buildings. Six were requested and a 4th will be purchased when an additional EITC funds are available. ($13,197)
Susan Mellinger	VV @ YES	Art and Literacy for K-2 Students
Purchase quality art-related children's books and story books that relate to an art lesson as well as supplementing the student's library in the art room. ($500)
Patty Murray	VV @ YES	Reading at Home Grade 2
Purchase books to allow reading support students to select a just right leveled book to take home each evening to read to a parent. ($500)
Adrienne Myers	IR	Smart Slates
Purchase 5 Smart Slates for all 5th grade students at IR. ($1,750)
Dana Poster	EY/IR	Diversity Training
Diversity training developed by the JCC to focus on issues such as social awareness of differences, accepting of others and inclusion/exclusion for the entire 5th grade. Program will consist of one session for 45 minutes, two classes at a time. Two assemblies (IR and EY) will follow ($250 each) to be sponsored by the respective PTO. ($900)
Dorene Ridgway	EY	Smart Response in Elementary School Classroom
Purchase 2 more Smart Response PE Systems. ($3,447)
Julie Stover	EY	Raising Reading Achievement
Purchase books for struggling 4th and 5th grade students with high interest, low level reading material. ($500)
Julie Stover	EY	Tools to Aid Student Achievement
Provide each classroom with a set of "whisper phones" and trackers to aid student achievement. ($1,000)
Aly Tapp	HS	Flipping Out: Innovation in Instruction
Allow teachers to "flip" their classroom by providing structural time off campus in order to increase "in class" time facilitationfacilation differentiation and remediation. Teachers will use summer creating traditional videos of their instruction including "screen cast" videos of instruction. ($1,187)
Phong Vo	HS	Science Olympiad
Send 10-15 students to the Science Olympiad competition, to be held March 2012 at Millersville University. ($900)
Spring 2011 Grant Total: $28,892

Fall 2009 Grant Recipients:
Fall 2010 Grant Recipients:
Name	Bldg	Brief Description
Lynnea Bobb/Lisa Acquaviva	MS/HS	Adventure-based Education
To assist students with their personal growth through team building and personal challenge. ($1,650)
Athena McNulty	MS	SmartBoard Document Camera
To purchase a SmartBoard Document Camera for Middle School Language Arts classroom. ($689)
Kevin Willson	IR	Where in the World
To teach geography and math through Global Positioning Systems (GPS). ($1,400)
Hare/Herman/Gulley	VV at YS	Ready Readers
To purchase leveled reading material to practice skills at home with parents for 1st grade students. ($1,000)
Anne Perkins	MS	Kindling the Fire for Reading
To purchase 7 Kindles for 7th grade language arts class. ($1,239)
Brandon Gerber	EY	High Interest Fiction/Non-fiction
To supplement the 5th grade core reading program with a selection of high interest fiction novels and a variety of nonfiction texts. ($720)
Poalucci/Milkowski	HS	Promoting Fitness through Zumba in Phys. Ed.
To cover the cost to train two Phys. Ed. teachers to become certified Zumba Instructors. ($450)
Kendrick/Kim	HS	Kindle-ing the Future of Reading
To purchase 6 Kindles for HS Library. ($1,050)
Fall 2010 Grant Total: $8,198

Spring 2010 Grant Recipients:
Name	Bldg	Brief Description
Susan Anderson	IR	Electronic Library
Grant includes the purchase of electronic resources. (Not to exceed $1,000)
Marilyn Henning	VV	Using Reading A-Z
Grant includes purchase of a 15 classroom subscriptions. ($1,050)
Sherri Mahorney	IR	Classroom Document Camera
Grant includes purchase of a Smart Document camera. (Not to exceed $965)
Jennifer Martin	HS	YSHS School Store
Grant includes purchase of supplies to be purchased. (Not to exceed $523)
Laura McClure	EY	SMART Response in the Elementary Classroom
Grant includes the purchase of one set of Smart Response PE System. ($1,780)
Jonnie Regan	IR	Text Help’s Read and Write 9 Gold Software
Grant includes the purchase of one mobile unit. ($645)
Erica Silva Furjanic	HS	Artist in Residence-Encaustics
Grant includes the cost of supplies and reimbursement of expenses for the Philadelphia artist in residence. ($1,000)
Kimberly Stolz	DIST	Flip Recorder
Grant includes the purchase of Flip Recorder for Professional Development. ($320)
Steven Temple	HS	IT Controlled Robot
Grant includes purchase of Texas Instrument programmable calculator and holder for robot. ($600)
Tac Thomas	HS	First Tech Challenge
Grant includes purchase of upgrade to Robotics Kit for next year's Tech Challenge Competition. ($500)
Spring 2010 Grant Total: $8,400

Name	Bldg	Brief Description
First Tech Challenge	HS	Student Robotics Competition
Team of HS students will enter an engineering competition by building a robot to do assigned task. Grant is to purchase a robotics kit and the registration fee for the competition. ($1,274)
EY 4th grade teachers	EY	Purchase Snap Circuit Kits
Purchase of 18 Snap Electricity kits for 4th grade, that will teach students how electricity in their home works, how switches control electricity to lights and discover how series and parallel circuits affect electricity. ($590.22)
Jarred Moore	MS	Vex Robotics
Purchase of 2 Vex robotics systems for 8th grade middle school students. Two students can use 1 kit at a time. ($1,000)
Amy Hare/Susan Herman	VV	Bear Pins Reading Program
Bear (Be excited about reading). Purchase of (312) books to match the individual reading levels of kindergarten, transition and first grade students. Students will sign the books out to take home and read to their parents. ($1,000)
Jolene Kingston	HS	Read to Succeed
Provide high interest books to students reading below grade level in an effort to enhance reading competency. Students will select a book from a wholesaler and read it on personal time. Over time, a library of these “high interest” books will grow and become self-sustaining. ($1,450)
Kevin Willson	VV	A Step Beyond Kid Writing
Purchase of 2 USB document cameras that will enable teachers to instantly project student writings while it is occurring. This training tool will allow teachers to demonstrate writing skills and not lose the teachable moment by doing their review and editing after class. ($600)
Lona Kluttz	VV	English Language Learners in Primary Grade
Provide language rich resources and educational materials to promote language acquisition skills and academic proficiency to English Language learners in 1st grade. Funds to purchase multiple language and literacy resources from Kaplan. ($500)
R. Leigh Foy	HS	Real Science /Real Scientists
Combine an AP Biology student field trip to a research lab at Hershey Medical Center followed by small groups of students doing their own independent research projects. Includes cost of field trip and research supplies for the lab. ($905)
Suzette White	EY	Embryology
Enhance 2nd grade bird unit with real life experience of watching eggs develop into baby chicks. ($175)
Crystal Cassese	EY	Tumble Book Library
An online collection of over 140 books that are animated. These talking picture books teach kids the joy of reading in a format they love. Benefits all students at EY. ($399)
Lisa Hess	EY	Parenting Book Club and Library
Participants will benefit by enriching their awareness of developmentally appropriate discipline, increasing their self –confidence as parents, connecting with other parents and potentially accessing an additional support system created by other attendees. There will be two book clubs consisting of four, 1 hour sessions. One club will be run during the day and the other in the evening. ($466.69)
Fall 2009 Grant Total: $8, 359.91

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