During the recent Bensalem Township school board meeting, the Just for the Kids Education Foundation announced the recipients of the Classroom Project Awards for the 2022-23 school year.
Nineteen projects will receive funding totaling $8,678.47. The foundation has been funding classroom projects since 1996. Over $500,000 has gone directly into the classrooms of all nine Bensalem schools. These projects help teachers achieve their respective educational goals and enhance their classroom presentations.
A list of projects, broken down by school, is below:
Belmont Hills Elementary School
– Dylan Ball, 3D Printing Technology, $471.69
– Chelsea May, Elementary Soft Starts, $436.49
– Mary Savage, Marker Water, $500
Cornwells Elementary School
– Joanna Bryant and Jane Stallone, Author Day 2022-23, $500
Faust Elementary School
– Wendy Birch, Teaching for Artistic Behavior Sculpture Center, $181.34
Struble Elementary School
– Katie Homewood, Eyes of the Wild, $320
Valley Elementary School
– Michelle Briggs, Club Ophelia, $500
– Courtney Capriotti, Let’s Get Back to Playing, $500
Shafer Middle School
– Lisa Albert, Ukulele Band, $500
– Michelle Schumacher, Coffee Shop, $500
Snyder Middle School
– Kate Liese, Middle School Drones, $500
Shafer & Snyder Middle Schools
– Keith Wilson, MS Bands Workshop/Performance with Dr. Quincy Hilliard, $500
Bensalem High School
– Emily Anastasi, BHS Bands Workshop/Performance with Dr. Quincy Hilliard, $500
– Carrie Cramer, Building a Thinking Math Classroom, $425
– Kecia Hall, A Thinking Classroom, $493.95
– Chelsea Root, Transition Program Mason Jar Recipe Project, $500
– Karen Sibley, BHS Literary Magazine, $350
– Chris Sterman, The Chemistry of Seltzer and Soda, $500
Bensalem High School/Shafer & Snyder Middle Schools
– Lisa Tokmajian and Kate Liese, PA Junior Academy of Science, $500
