School:  Kennebunk High School   Amount: $2,851.00   Names of Applicants:   Lisa Farrell and Norma Sardine, KHS IBESS teachers This is a multi-day, residential, outdoor Schoodic Education Adventure (SEA) program.  Acadia National Park educators lead this program on campus. Curriculum-based classroom activities and hands-on field experience on the rugged coast of Maine offer  an exciting Read the full article…

  School:  Kennebunk High School   Amount: $3,999.95   Name of Applicant: Aaron Germana,  Math and Robotics Teacher   Grant will provide the funds to upgrade and replace outdated robotics hardware for the Kennebunk High School Robotics class and team.  

School:  Kennebunk High School   Amount: $5,059.97.00   Names of Applicants:  Tom Post, AJ Carp and Aaron Germana,  KHS STEM teachers   This grant will allow the purchase of two (2) additional MakerBot Replicator Desktop 3D Printers.  The original EFKA grant for a 3D printer at KHS is credited with creating a high level of interest and learning. Read the full article…

School:  Kennebunk High School   Amount: $3,278.00   Name of Applicant: Sheila Wells, Technology & Curriculum Integrator Grant money will allow the purchase of science technology probes and sensors compatible with Chromebook computers. Using the selected probes, students will experience more opportunities to “think science” while watching real time data collection and the immediate impact of variables. Read the full article…

School: Middle School of the Kennebunks,   Amount: $1,399.00,   Name of Applicant:  Karen Mathews, MSK Choral Director    Grant money will be used to purchase a Yamaha 88-Key Stage Piano. The digital keyboard will be used to accompany chorus rehearsals, accompany school musicals and is used by students in piano class.

School: Kennebunkport Consolidated,  Amount: $2,278.00,  Name of Applicant: Victoria Cherry, General Music Specialist Teacher    Grant money will be used to purchase mallet (such as xylophones) and hand-held percussion instruments (such as tambourines) for use by children in their weekly general music classes.

Schools: RSU21 District-Wide,  Amount: $736.00  Name of Applicant: Dr. Phil Potenziano,  Assistant Superintendent    RSU 21 would like to hold a district and  community book talk. Fifty copies of the book, Most Likely to Succeed.’ Preparing our Kids for the Innovative Era,  by Tony Wagner & Ted Dintersmith will be provided to school staff, and to Read the full article…

School: Middle School of the Kennebunks,  Amount: $14,500.00,   Name of Applicant: Jeff Rodman, MSK Principal     The 7th grade class from the Middle School of the Kennebunks will attend the Leadership School at Camp Kieve in October. While at Camp Kieve, 7th graders will have the opportunity to work on team building, healthy decision making, Read the full article…

Schools:  Kennebunk High School   Amount: $2,322.00  Name of Applicant: Benjamin Potvin, 9-12 Music Educator.    This grant will assist in replacing the largest pieces of the KHS marching band’s outdated percussion set-up.  These musical instruments will be featured at every public function where the high school band is asked to perform. 

Schools:  Kennebunkport Consolidated School, Mildred L Day School, Sea Road School   Amount: $3,064.00  Name of Applicant: Sheila Wells, RSU21 STEM Coordinator.    In order to extend and enhance our engineering and robotics offerings at the elementary level, this grant will introduce Edison Robots to all grade 3 students in the district.  Approximately 200 third Read the full article…

Schools:  Kennebunkport Consolidated School, Mildred L Day School, Sea Road School   Amount: $1,500  Name of Applicant: Sheila Wells, RSU 21 STEM coordinator.    The Julia Robinson Math Festival is a celebration of math.  The event features mathematical challenges, puzzles and other activities in a non-competitive setting.  Once again this event will be hosted by Read the full article…

School: Middle School of the Kennebunks  Amount: $3,000.00 Name of Applicant: Sara Clinehens, 6th Grade Language Arts Teacher The 6th grade will visit the nationally recognized Telling Room in Portland, Maine to spend a morning as a working writer.  Students will be trained in interview skills and take to the streets of Portland in small groups to Read the full article…

School:  Kennebunk High School   Amount: $1000.00   Name of Applicant: Dr. Phillip J. Potenziano,  Assistant Superintendent of Schools Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Larry Price will visit KHS for two full days of class engagements and will include an evening public forum. Mr. Price’s work documents child labor in East Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, and his Read the full article…

School: Middle School of the Kennebunks School Year: 2015-2016  Amount:$3,340  Names of Applicant: Tom Taylor/Ruth Ellen Cialfi Econobunk is an economic and civics based program where students will be involved in hands-on, experiential learning. In this 8 week interdisciplinary unit the teachers, students, and parents experience mathematics, civics, social studies, and literacy through real-life problems, teamwork and Read the full article…

School: Middle School of the Kennebunks   Amount: $5798.00   Names of Applicant: Mary McCarthy and Evan Chase,  MSK Art and STEM Teachers    The purchase of 2 MakerBot Replicator Desktop 3D Printers (Fifth Generation Models) will expand the new 3D printing and design program.  These new 3D printers will allow students in all grades Read the full article…

School: Kennebunkport Consolidated School  Amount: $2676.00   Two third grade teachers from KCS will travel to the Ronald Clark Academy in Atlanta, GA.  There they will receive professional development designed to enhance curriculum and instruction in two areas. They will develop fun and meaningful ways to instruct children in how to interact with adults, develop public speaking skills, and demonstrate their knowledge through oral medium. Secondly, they will explore and implement methods of instruction that involve movement and music.  http://www.ronclarkacademy.com/Videos  

School: Kennebunk Elementary School  Amount: $3,400.00 All students in grades K-3 will have the opportunity to participate in a school wide musical/theatrical production. The musical performance is informed by the instructional strategy called Readers Theater which blends students’ desire to perform with their need for oral reading practice. The performance will include some Sea Road Read the full article…

School: Middle School of the Kennebunks Amount: $1,000.00 Travis Roy’s motivational presentation to all middle school students and staff will focus on goal setting, hard work, perseverance, and grit. Travis Roy was a 20 year old hockey player who eleven seconds into his first game for Boston University was checked into the boards and paralyzed. His Read the full article…

School: Middle School of the Kennebunks Amount: $1,500.00 This project is a collaboration among the 8th grade teachers at MSK, introducing 8th grade students to the science and math behind PIXAR productions. Students will discover how science, math engineering and math STEM are applied to create PIXAR’s award-winning films at this limited engagement exhibit at the Boston Read the full article…

Schools: Kennebunkport Consolidated School, ML Day School, Sea Road School  Amount: $590.00 Boston Museum of Science educators will present one presentation for each grade level. Grade 5 will experience “Weather: Wind, Water and Temperature” which demonstrates how atmospheric phenomena interact with each other to create the weather we experience every day.  Students watch a hot Read the full article…

School: Middle School of the Kennebunks School Year: 2015-2016  Amount: $5,000.00.  For 12 weeks, an Camp Kieve Leadership School Educator will work within MSK to provide an extension of the Camp Kieve/Leadership School experience for all MSK students and staff.  The goal for teachers and staff is that by working with the EiR to observe, Read the full article…

Schools: Kennebunk High School School Year: 2015-2016  Amount: $9,000.00 Kennebunk High School’s Concert Band, Wind Ensemble, and Chamber Choir, totaling 100 students will travel to NYC in April 2016 to participate in an international music festival. Other activities include a performance or the New York Philharmonic and a Broadway musical. While the total cost of the Read the full article…

Schools: Kennebunk High School School Year: 2015-2016  Amount: $400.00 Year 1 and 2 IB Biology classes will attend a genetics conference in Portland. Topics covered include: medical genetics, tissue engineering, stem cell usage in reproductive advances, genome editing to correct genetic mutations, fetal alcohol prevalence and new genetic causes of developmental disabilities.

Schools: Kennebunkport Consolidated School; Mildred L. Day School; Sea Road School  School Year: 2015-2016  Amount: $9,258 All 4th and 5th grade students in the district will participate in this two-day visual and performing arts festival hosted by Sea Road School and conducted by River Tree Arts.  Students will have the opportunity to participate in 2 Read the full article…

School: Kennebunk Elementary School School Year: 2015-2016 Amount: $1,250 This program would include a 2 week period where dance instructor, Sharon Lux, would be at the school for dance instruction sessions in which every student in the school would participate.  Each class, K-3, would receive two 45 minute instruction sessions.  Following that each grade level Read the full article…

School: Kennebunk Elementary School; Kennebunkport Consolidate School; Mildred L. Day School  School Year: 2015 – 2016 Amount: $1,500 Each of the 10 Kindergarten classes in the district will receive a weekly-30-minute yoga class for six weeks. Mindfulness and meditation have been shown to have a positive impact on readiness to learn.  Yoga increases self-awareness of energy Read the full article…