WARSAW — The Warsaw Education Foundation recently awarded over $9,500 in Red Apple Grant funds to 10 Warsaw Community Schools’ educators.  Their students are beginning the 2017-2018 school year studying aquaponics, improving their language skills, designing electrical circuits and creating art. They are also learning the science of cooking, improving their chess game and training in the Heimlich maneuver to prevent choking.

Red Apple Grants are awarded to teachers for classroom materials as well as school-wide projects that advance enrichment opportunities, support innovative and inventive teaching and promote academic exploration.

Red Apple Grants were awarded to the following:

• David Bailey and Mandy Bailey, Warsaw Community High School, STEM Cooking Lab – $1,210.
• Jeanine DeGeeter, Harrison Elementary, Heimlich Heroes – Preparing Students to Recognize and Respond to a Choking Emergency – $1,254.60
• Karina Hoover, Lincoln Elementary, Visual and Hands-on Learning for EL Students – $1,394.70
• Kaitlyn Murphy, Harrison & Eisenhower Elementary, Easels and Drawing Boards:  Enriching Opportunities for Art Explorations – $992.07
• Melinda Oliver, Lincoln, Madison & Washington STEM Elementary, Warsaw Chess Club Enhancement – $399.
• Cindy Shirey, Lincoln Elementary, Stocking the STEAM Lab . . . We put the A in STEAM! – $1,485.70
• Beth Walenga and Becky Brodhead, Lincoln Elementary, Fin to Flower Aquaponics in the Classroom – $1,470.
• Jane Zellers, Lincoln Elementary, Circuits are a Snap! – $1,448.54

Founded in 1987, the Warsaw Education Foundation strongly believes that investing in academic excellence today will return excellent leadership tomorrow!