Please provide a brief narrative explaining what the grant was used for and its outcomes. We had a solar watch party. We had space cookies, sun water, moon popcorn and put together little gift bags for the kids. We also streamed the livestream from NASA. Laurie Rachetta, East Syracuse Free Library
Please provide a brief narrative explaining what the grant was used for and its outcomes. We used the grant for several programs related to the solar eclipse. One was a workshop presented by The MOST called “Learn About the Solar Eclipse with The MOST!” This was for all ages. A museum educator discussed what happens…
Please provide a brief narrative explaining what the grant was used for and its outcomes. The grant provided our 8th grade science students an opportunity to engage in hands-on activities to understand how sun-earth moon interactions cause eclipses and seasons. Our weather stations provided an opportunity to collect real time data used to make predictions…
Please provide a brief narrative explaining what the grant was used for and its outcomes. The library at SUNY ESF is named the F. Franklin Moon Library or just “Moon”. Leaning into this – Librarian Jane Verostek wrote and received a solar eclipse grant from the CLRC Central New York Library Resources Council. This grant…
Please provide a brief narrative explaining what the grant was used for and its outcomes. The grant was used to purchase 100 solar eclipse glasses for SUNY Upstate staff, faculty, and students. We advertised the glasses through our social media platforms and through flyers placed around the university and adjoining hospital. We provided the glasses…
Please provide a brief narrative explaining what the grant was used for and its outcomes. Ahead of the Total Solar Eclipse in April, Quinn Gardner, Petit Youth Services Librarian, arranged for Matt Fagan from the Museum of Science and Technology (MoST) to present on the Solar Eclipse. We held the program on a Saturday, 3/30,…
Please provide a brief narrative explaining what the grant was used for and its outcomes. We used the grant to buy craft items related to outer space. Each child received a small bag with a poster to decorate about their favorite planet, an outer space bookmark and a small wooden telescope to color. The kids…
Please provide a brief narrative explaining what the grant was used for and its outcomes. The CLRC grant supported our plans to have Jake Edwards from the Onondaga Nation address a group of nearly 80 attendees about the significance of an eclipse to formation of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Funds supported staff time to set up…
Please provide a brief narrative explaining what the grant was used for and its outcomes. We utilized the CLRC eclipse grant for two programs. First, we used two copies of the picture book Eclipse by Andy Rash to create a StoryWalk around our library. Community members and school groups toured this display to learn what…
Please provide a brief narrative explaining what the grant was used for and its outcomes. The Salina Library used our Solar Eclipse Grant money to purchase supplies for programming on the day of the April 8th eclipse. At 1 PM we held Family Eclipse Science where we talked about how a solar eclipse occurs and…