The American Crystal Sugar Co., based in Moorhead, has awarded $23,000 in grants to schools in the Red River Valley to support STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education.
Grant recipients include Ada-Borup High School, Fertile-Beltrami High School, Ulen-Hitterdal High School, and Stephen-Argyle Middle School, all in Minnesota, and Valley-Edinburg (N.D.) High School.
Ada-Borup will use its $5,000 grant to buy two laptops and robotics building materials for its robotics team; Fertile-Beltrami, $5,000 to support animal science, agricultural science and horticulture classes; Ulen-Hitterdal, $3,000 to purchase a Kelvin Kel-Air Dragster System with Classview Time to measure race car performance for the school's Dragster project; Stephen-Argyle, $5,000 to buy STEM kits for exploratory investigation, and Valley-Edinburg, $5,000 to purchase robotics hardware and classroom tools for its robotics team.
The schools were selected to receive the grants through an application process that involved explaining the educational rationale for the projects and detailing how the projects would promote creativity, critical thinking, communication and collaboration among students.
Eligible schools included all secondary schools in the Red River Valley region, where American Crystal's 4,000-plus employees and stakeholders live and work.
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