The Agua Fria Union School District hopes to bolster its skilled trades/construction program with lab upgrades to attract more students to the program and give enrolled students a safe working environment during their two-year instruction. Improvements would include a tool cage, material storage cage and outdoor workspace, to include an extended cover and a flat surface for proper drainage.
Booth Elementary School seeks to support students' STEM education by completely renovating a classroom currently adjoining a computer lab. The school plans to build cubicles, wood-tool table stations and a tool-board wall or additional storage to support students as they engineer replica houses, models and science projects.
Pickens Elementary School wants to create an outdoor learning environment and garden to include a covered pavilion for students and teachers. Such a peaceful location will especially help the students PES serves who have emotional or behavioral challenges. The Hope Garden would also offer many hands-on learning opportunities, and the school would like to include a greenhouse.
Reidsville High School seeks to add concessions and restroom facilities with electricity, and to install HVAC in its gym and renovate the restrooms to ensure they're accessible for guests and students with disabilities.
Panther Valley Elementary School seeks to improve the mental health, overall well-being and compassion fatigue of its teachers and staff by creating a comfortable, updated faculty room. The school district community lives in poverty and classes exceed the recommended class size by 10-12 students.
Rocky River Elementary School seeks to add a sidewalk and resurface the playground with a rubberized play space. Recess and outdoor learning would be safer and more accessible for all children.
Blackshear Elementary would like to build a living mural garden with child-friendly pathways, a refreshed playground area, modular seating for outdoor learning, and shades that include charging and wi-fi stations to extend learning beyond the classroom walls. Family and community members will have access to an organic edible garden to cultivate fresh vegetables and native plant species to beautify their school community through environmentally supportive gardening and growing.
Westbrook High School teaches environmental science and sustainable practices, but the building's interior tells a contradictory story. This project would create a greenhouse initiative to support curriculum addressing community needs and implementing sustainable practices from tilling soil and planting seeds to harvesting and preparing meals. Students will experience hands-on, project based learning and will be able to take food home to help feed their families, many of whom are food insecure and living below the poverty line.
Yavapai Elementary School seeks to redesign its current library space to create flexible student seating, a maker space for students and updated interior features.