2021
Congratulations to the following teachers and their schools on being awarded an ArkanSONO 2021 STEM grant. The ArkanSONO team is excited to be able to help these teachers stimulate their students in STEM!
Whitney Bordelon
(Forest Heights STEM Academy)
$1962 grant
Ms. Bordelon will be receiving six FLIR One Pro Infrared cameras for incorporation into her eighth grade Science, PreAP Science, Accelerated Physical Science, and Science Lab classes. This award is expected to affect 120 students in her classes each year. She will also make them available for a presentation with 75 fourth grade students who do a unit on Energy. The equipment will allow her students to explore infrared energy on units discussing the physics underlying waves.
Jackie Scott and RaeAnn Wood
(Mann Magnet Middle School)
$3130 grant
Ms. Scott and Ms. Wood will be receiving several different Aerogarden Farm systems as well as Vernier Go Direct Sensors (e.g., PhotoGate, Weather system, Light and Color, Video Analysis: Motion and Sports, Climate and Meteorology, and charge stations). This award is expected to affect 100 students in sixth, seventh, and eighth grade Lab Science and Physical Science Labs as well as lecture classes. The equipment will allow students to explore pollination, growth of plants and the effect of weather and the physics underlying speed and velocity.
Kellie Weeks
(Central High School)
$2,248 grant
Ms. Weeks will be receiving some epithelial microscope slide sets, several pig dissection biokits, several student dissecting sets, and a Human Micro sexless torso. This award is expected to affect more than 100 students in the eleventh and twelfth grade in the Anatomy & Physiology class. The items will be used to engage students in hands on activities that explore body systems from the microscopic to the gross anatomical level.
Congratulations to all the teachers and their students!
2022
Congratulations to the following teachers and their schools on being awarded ArkanSONO 2022 STEM grants. The ArkanSONO team is excited to be able to help these teachers stimulate their students in STEM!
Patrick Foley
(Central High School)
$1047 grant
Mr. Foley received an assortment of items to be used in his physics and physical science classes including: trundle wheel, Newton ring apparatus, resonance bowl, helical spring, gravity well, Geiger counter and hand boiler.
Tracy Brown
(Central High School)
$2078 grant
Ms. Brown received an ice maker, autoclave and distiller to be used to help students with their science fair projects.
Lawanna Harris
(JA Fair Preparatory Middle School)
$1940 grant
Ms. Harris received a 3D printer, resin and other assorted supplies. Her students will be designing and printing toys for kids with cerebral palsy.
Heidi Campbell
(Mabelvale Middle School)
$1550 grant
Ms. Campbell received an incubator, microscope, models and assorted kits and analyzer.
Misty Ingram
(Mabelvale Middle School)
$2030 grant
Ms. Ingram received a microscope and various sensors including a seismograph.
Leah Hart
(Pinnacle View Middle School)
$2300 grant
Ms. Hart received a digital microscope, plant growth chart and humidity tent, mystery chemical reactions kit, and nitrogen cycle kits.
Cynthia Booker
(LRSD Excel Program)
$1600 grant
Ms. Booker received health beam scale inflatable preserved pigs lung kit, intubation bag, intubation airway management trainer, and dissection instruments.
Hillary McCree
(LRSD Excel Program)
$3000 grant
Ms. McCree received adult/child intubation kits, airway management trainer, patient care simulator, and assorted anatomical models.
Evelyn Woods
(LRSD Excel Program)
$1900 grant
Ms. Woods received Stop the Bleed kits to use in her classes.