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Empire Elementary Gets $5,000 Grant for STEM

Empire Elementary School was awarded a $5,000 Rotary Grant, to hold four STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Parent Nights in the coming year. Nearly a dozen applications from teachers and teams of teachers were received for this competitive grant.

The school plans to host quarterly Family STEM Nights, with stations that focus on the specific content standards taught during regular classroom instruction to help reinforce and extend learning.

STEM Coach at Empire Andrea Wiggins said, "We know the importance of STEM education for all students, but we know it is even more important for our population. Of the 500 students here, 75 percent are minorities, with 225 that are English language learners."

The school will share the results of its work at a presentation to the Rotary Club in June of 2020.

Photo shows (left to right) Fernando Serrano, past president and Vocational Chair; Rotarian and Carson City School Superintendent Richard Stokes; Empire Elementary School Principal “Mike” Paul; Adrienne Wiggins - STEM teacher at Empire, and current President Joe Lushina.

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Western Nevada College - Director of Institutional Development Niki Gladys from Carson Rotary on Vimeo.

WNC students can get a little privacy or work in small groups in the Group Study Rooms sponsored with a $25,000 grant by the Rotary Club of Carson City.

The Four-Way Test is just one of several signs in the WNC Library that describes one of the most important values of the Carson City Rotary Club - integrity.

The renovation of WNC's Library will help its students in many ways, and the Carson City Rotary Club hopes to establish a Rotaract Club there someday for those in the 18-30 age group.

Montessori Kids Grow Gardens

Students at the Montessori Charter School in Carson City received a $5,000 grant to kick-start their own hydroponic garden system this year.

And they got it off the ground in great style, with a first crop of greens including lettuce and kale. Some of it will be consumed at the school and the rest is to be donated to the local FISH network to feed those in shelters.

School Principal Jessica Daniels told the Carson Rotary Club at the presentation last February 2019, that her teachers and students planned to continue the gardening project as long as they could. They expect to involve hundreds of their elementary school students in botany, planning, gardening and other related tasks over the next few years.

The Montessori Grant is the first in a series of grants to schools and teachers from the Carson City School District.

Montessori teachers Todd Ross and Kristina Meister told the Rotary Club how excited they were to learn that their hydroponics research project was selected for the 2019 award. The project was guided by Vocational Service Chair Fernando Serrano, during the term of President Chuck Borders.

The five shelters will receive benches and trash cans by the end of the year.

Break from the Wind

A donation from the Rotary Club of Carson City has allowed Carson City to purchase five bus shelters for the Jump Around Carson (JAC) transit system. This $3,000 donation serves as the critical local funding required to leverage an existing federal grant for the purchase, which totaled $40,000.

Carson City Regional Transportation Commission proudly accepted this donation in October 2018. The five shelters were installed earlier this week at five of the highest utilized bus stops throughout the City: 4001 N Carson St (Route 1), 2601 College Pkwy (Route 2A), 775 Fleischmann Wy (Route 2B), 3079 Airport Rd (Route 2B), and 170 Koontz Ln (Route 3).

Rotary Club members met with Public Works staff at the 775 Fleischmann Way shelter on May 15^th to celebrate installation of the shelters and successful completion of the project.

JAC’s fixed route service provides approximately 200,000 rides annually and is essential in providing access to jobs, healthcare, and other services for Carson City residents and visitors. There are over 150 bus stops in the JAC transit system, but less than 15% of them have a shelter with seating for passengers.

Carson City Transportation Manager Lucia Maloney said, “It is relationships like the ones our staff has developed with the Rotary Club and its members, that bring our community together and make Carson City a great place to live, work, and play. I wish to personally thank the Rotary Club for their very thoughtful and meaningful donation and look forward to future partnership opportunities in the years to come.”