13 Chattanooga schools receive TVA STEM grant
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) — The Tennessee Valley Authority, EPB and Bicentennial Volunteers provided $57,000 in STEM grants to 13 Chattanooga area schools. This was part of TVA’s STEM Classroom Grant Program.
These are among the 343 schools in TVA’s service area that are receiving a total of $1.5 million in grants. These go toward the development of science, technology, engineering and math education projects.
They say this is meant to spark interest in STEM-related career fields for the students.
The following schools were selected to receive the grants.
- Battle Academy: Cooking Up Learning
- Chattanooga Girls Leadership Academy: Solving Real-World STEM Problems Through Workplace Mentoring
- Chattanooga Preparatory School: Reducing Carbon Emissions Through Hands-on Project-based Learning
- Chattanooga Valley Middle School: Upgrade to Uplift: Empowering students for a STEM-Driven Future through Robotics
- Fairyland Elementary: Bringing Tech to Fairyland STEM
- Harrison Elementary: Old School Tech for New School Tools
- The Howard School: MeLab Specialist
- Loftis Middle School: MASSive Chunkin’
- Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic School: OLPH Worm Garden at Nature’s Place Classroom
- Sale Creek Middle High School: Sale Creek Green House Phase 2
- Silverdale Baptist Academy: Students are MAD to Learn: Enhancing STEM Education with MAD Learn
- Soddy Daisy High School: Technology Career Exploration – To Infinity and Beyond!
- Thrasher Elementary: Plant-tastic Adventures – The Tower Garden Tales
EPB said these schools each received grants up to $5,000.
They added the grant process was competitive and they gave preference to applications that explored TVA’s primary areas of focus. Those include environment, energy, economic development and community problem-solving.
All schools which receive power from a company served by TVA were eligible to apply.
