2020/21 WSST Foundation Grant Recipients

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Joanne Zosel

Solon Springs

Purchase lab equipment for physics experiments

This grant will provide Joanne’s students with the necessary equipment to perform laboratory experiments that they otherwise would just have to read about, hear about or see demonstrated instead of actually doing.  

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Molly Carlson

Mauston 

Graduate School in Biotechnology

This grant will fund graduate work during the Spring Semester 2021 in Experimental Design and Analysis in Biotechnology and Leadership in Organizations.  Molly teaches Biology and Biotechnology at the high school level, and these courses will enhance her knowledge in this field and help her teach research techniques.

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Terrence Neumann

New Richmond

Leadership in Curriculum Development

This grant will support Terrance’s personal leadership development. He has extensive experience teaching chemistry and aims to expand his knowledge of school-based program decision and curriculum implementation. This will allow him to take on more leadership roles in his district.  

Mary C Caucutt

Hamilton

Digital Frog Dissection

Mary will use this grant to allow her enriched science students and those in other classes in her district to participate in a virtual frog dissection using The Flinn Digital Dissection for the grass frog.  

Zachary‌ ‌Pratt‌ ‌

Janesville

After school Bacteriophage research project

Zachary will create an after-school research program for high school students, allowing them to explore bacteria and bacteriophages, or the viruses that infect them. Students will participate in authentic research and communicate their discoveries with diverse audiences.

Lisa Swaney 

Waukesha 

Interactive activities for planetarium lobby

The goal of this project is to incorporate educational, informative, hands-on, interactive displays that are designed to engage all in the school planetarium lobby.

This plan includes motion-sensing technology and projection systems, display panels that can be quickly changed depending on seasons and current events, and interactive kiosks that can be readily upgraded for a variety of topics.

Jonathan D. Baker

Wonewoc

Citizen Science study of prairie plants

This grant will be used to develop an innovative, project-based unit on plant ecology in Jonathan's Conservation Biology class. The unit will focus on the exploration of the wet-prairie ecosystem found at his school’s Outdoor Learning Area, and will be centered around the driving question: “How can we best manage and preserve the biodiversity found in this rare wet-prairie remnant?” 

Emily Bennett

Neenah

Hydroponics project for every school

This grant will help fund Emily’s goal of having at least one hydroponics unit in each building in her school district. She will work with a local company that builds hydroponics units to help students grow vegetables for school use, raise money for sustaining the program and learn about the science behind alternative ways to grow food.

STEM

Greg Rose

Clintonville

VEX robotics update 

Greg will use this grant to fund challenge game equipment in 8th grade robotics class.  The addition of competition game field equipment will  excite and motivate students to learn robotics in a gamified platform.  He will use that class as a launchpad to establish a robotics club that will one day participate in area robotics competitions.