Catalyst Grant Final Report “Earth Day at the Everson” Please provide a brief narrative explaining your project and its outcomes. As a unique initiative to complement the exhibition “Janet Biggs: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape,” the Everson introduced its inaugural “Earth Day at the Everson” event. This event offered not only Docent-led tours…
Catalyst Grant Final Report “Earth Day 2024” Please provide a brief narrative explaining your project and its outcomes. The Old Forge Library will host an Earth Day event that 80 people attended on Monday, April 22, 2024 that included the following elements: Tree sapling giveaway, a DIY pollinator seed bomb activity, a DIY recycled coke…
Catalyst Grant Final Report “STEM Camp: Chemistry of Water in Brewerton” Please provide a brief narrative explaining your project and its outcomes. Over the 2-day STEM camp students ranging between 3rd and 8th grades worked with community leaders in STEM fields to understand the chemistry of water, create experiments, learn about the importance of wetlands…
Please provide a brief narrative explaining what the grant was used for and its outcomes. Students created DIY kits of bracelets with UV beads for all PG students. Each small kit included UV beads, colored beads, string, and a keychain/lanyard clip for students to save their strings of beads as a memory of what they…
Please provide a brief narrative explaining what the grant was used for and its outcomes. The CLRC Solar Eclipse Grant funds were used to purchase materials for several activities. We held an Astronaut BINGO Scavenger Hunt and used some of the funds to purchase items for prizes. We also had two crafts available for children…
Please provide a brief narrative explaining what the grant was used for and its outcomes. The grant was used to buy solar eclipse books for middle school students. The books were put into the library collection. Students checked out the books this year and will be able to check them out in future years. 7th…
Please provide a brief narrative explaining what the grant was used for and its outcomes. The grant was used to provide education to community members about the solar eclipse and to buy supplies for the Solar Eclipse Viewing event at the Community Library of DeWitt & Jamesville. We booked a speaker from the Museum of…
Please provide a brief narrative explaining what the grant was used for and its outcomes. The grant was used to purchase manipulative materials related to the solar system to demonstrate the movement of the planets, sun, and moon. Students were able to use ‘blow-up’ planets to act out the solar system and to see the…
Please provide a brief narrative explaining what the grant was used for and its outcomes. Purchase of a Professional Text Solar Science: Exploring Sunspots, Seasons, Eclipses and More, from NSTA Press, When the Sun Goes Dark, 3 TPT purchases for Solar Eclipse, Sun and Moon, Universe and Card Stock Paper for making hole 3- hole…
Please provide a brief narrative explaining what the grant was used for and its outcomes. We used the grant to expand activities held during our Eclipse Party at the library. Even though the weather wasn’t ideal, people enjoyed coming together to view the sun through the SunOculars, one of the items purchased with the grant…