Past projects 4
Clean Air For Our Classrooms
Funded Aug 13, 2024With your help, we have successfully installed new, high quality air filters in the portable air purifiers we have in classrooms throughout our school: our pre-K through 5th grade classrooms; our art, vocal, and percussion classrooms; as well as our cafeteria, nurse's office, occupational therapy room, yoga room, and front office. In the photos, you can see some of the dirty air filters that we replaced, as well as the updated air purifier in action in a classroom.
The air purifiers were built last school year by our student Environmental Club. These student-built air cleaners are making the indoor air safer for our full school community by removing pollution and infectious disease from the air.
The filters need to be replaced every six months, and your donations have supplied us with enough filters for our full school year. We installed new filters in August at the start of the school year, and will replace those filters again over the 2024-25 winter break, to provide cleaner air for the spring semester in our classrooms.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Derrig
Help Us Build Healthy Classrooms
Funded Nov 20, 2023Our Environmental Club students have completed this project and have built and distributed Corsi-Rosenthal air purifiers to 17 of our school classrooms: our 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade classrooms; our art, vocal, and percussion classrooms; as well as our cafeteria, gym, nurse's office, occupational therapy room, indoor recess room, yoga room, and front office.
This is the first year of our Environmental Club, and our students have repeatedly expressed their excitement to be learning and practicing engineering concepts and working through real-life engineering challenges. In this round of building, the students have gained enough experience to begin teaching others. We hosted two build sessions with parents where the students taught the parents how to build the air purifiers and as a group we built 12 of the air purifiers.
These student-built air cleaners are making the indoor air safer for our full school community by removing pollution and infectious disease from the air. The students distributed the air cleaners to each of the classrooms and taught each of those classroom's teachers and students about how they worked. We have heard positive feedback from many teachers and students that their health and breathing feels better since the air purifiers were installed.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Derrig
Socialization and Active Play at Recess
Funded Aug 29, 2023Thank you so much for your donation! We are now 2 months in and our recess clubs are going strong, thanks to you! We have a ping pong club, and in our indoor and outdoor recess clubs, we have added the basketball hoop, gaga ball pit, badminton and soccer goals.
It is through your donation that we are able to add some diversity and fun to what and how children interact during recess. It has also helped in lessening incidents during recess as our students are so engaged the minutes fly by! Thank you again!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Derrig
This classroom project was brought to life by The SONIC Foundation and 39 other donors.Help Us Build Healthy Classrooms
Funded Aug 16, 2023Our Environmental Club students are hard at work building and distributing Corsi-Rosenthal boxes to our pre-K through 2nd grade classrooms.
This is the first year of our Environmental Club, and our students have repeatedly expressed their excitement to be learning and practicing engineering concepts and working through real-life engineering challenges. One exciting moment occurred when the students tested a completed Corsi-Rosenthal box only to discover that one of the fans wasn't spinning like the others. They opened up the machine and trouble-shoot the problem until they found and fixed the issue: a trailing cord that was getting in the way of the fan's movement.
These student-built air cleaners are making the indoor air safer for our full school community. The students are already talking about expanding this project to enable them to build air cleaners for families to take home to their homes and apartments. The students also may develop this work into a project for the end of year science fair.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Derrig
This classroom project was brought to life by The SONIC Foundation and 29 other donors.