PEARL RIVER- Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc. (O&R) has awarded grants totaling over $35,000 to support almost 40 creative, cutting-edge classroom projects in Rockland and Orange counties. Those projects in both counties focus on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
More than 20 Rockland County classroom projects totaling over $20,000 were honored and another almost 20 Orange County projects totaling nearly $15,000 were recognized, too.
O&R’s STEM Classroom Grants program provided funding totaling approximately $50,000 today for over 50 STEM projects in Orange, Rockland, Sussex, Passaic, and Bergen counties, all located within O&R’s service area. O&R operates in New Jersey under its affiliate name Rockland Electric Company.
Talented, hard-working, thoughtful teachers have crafted ambitious, interesting, ingenious, sparkling lesson plans that dazzle. These dynamic proposals are designed to challenge students to think, plan, act and succeed — and have fun doing it.
O&R President and CEO Robert Sanchez said, “O&R is proud to support our teachers and students with STEM grants that can help to create future leaders in science, technology, engineering and math.”
Over the past nine years, O&R has awarded 365 STEM Classroom Grants totaling over $341,000. Those grants ranged from $185 to $1,000.
The grants were awarded based on a review of teacher-submitted proposals by the O&R STEM Education Advisory Council, a panel of educators and engineers assembled by O&R expressly for this purpose.
Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc. (O&R) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Consolidated Edison, Inc., one of the nation’s largest investor-owned energy companies. O&R is a regulated utility. It provides electric service to approximately 300,000 customers in southeastern New York State and northern New Jersey (where it’s Rockland Electric Company) and natural gas service to approximately 130,000 customers in New York.
The 2023-2024 Rockland County, N.Y. winners are:
- Bardonia and West Nyack Elementary Schools
- Benim Academy
- Camp Bullowa Boy Scout Summer Camp
- Clarkstown Central School District
- Cottage Lane Elementary School
- Evans Park Elementary School
- Fieldstone Elementary School
- Fleetwood Elementary School
- Haverstraw Elementary School
- Laurel Plains Elementary School
- Laurel Plains Elementary school
- Peace Through Play Nursery School
- Pearl River School District
- Rockland BOCES based at A. MacArthur Barr Middle School
- Rockland BOCES River View high School
- Sloatsburg Elementary School
- Stony Point Elementary School
- Woodglen Elementary School
The 2023-2024 Orange County, N.Y. winners are:
- Chester Academy
- Circleville Elementary School
- George Grant Mason Elementary School
- Kids Club House
- Monroe-Woodbury Middle School
- Monroe-Woodbury High School
- North Main Elementary
- North Main Elementary
- Northern Academy for the Arts
- Orange Environment, Inc.
- Orange-Ulster BOCES
- Pine Bush Central School District
- Pine Bush Elementary
- Pine Tree Elementary
- Smith Clove Elementary
- TuxedoSTEM at George F. Baker High School
