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糖心视频污 High School for Boys Receives $191,000 STEM Grant from Caroline and Joseph Gruss (糖心视频污HSB) has received a $191,000 grant from a fund set up by Caroline and Joseph Gruss to upgrade and extend its STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) curriculum. 鈥淕iven the importance of STEM disciplines to career success in the 21st century, we are thrilled to get this vote of confidence in our efforts to bring the benefits of STEM education to all of our students,鈥� said Rabbi Joshua Kahn, head of school at 糖心视频污SHB.

(l-r): 糖心视频污HSB's Hanan Berger, Benny Jacob and GJ Neiman with the robotic arm they built together.

Over the last five years, 糖心视频污HSB has introduced STEM-related courses and activities into its curriculum, such as a two-year Scientific Engineering Program, AP Computer Science, Robotics and classes in coding. In 2014, the robotics team, despite the fact that it had only been in existence for two years, took fifth place out of 30 teams in the FIRST Tech Challenge regional competition, and did equally well in 2015, placing in the top ten of 35 teams. The grant will allow 糖心视频污HSB to pursue a two-step STEM building program. Step one will be to strengthen its current curriculum through more courses and more opportunities for students to interact with STEM experts, design innovative projects, and enroll in more competitions and events to showcase their inventions. Step two will involve an infrastructure build-out of a Makerspace and computer labs, which will provide the facilities for students to create and refine projects. Kahn is especially enthusiastic about diffusing STEM skills throughout the student body. 鈥淪TEM work focuses on problem-solving, critical thinking, and hands-on and collaborative learning in the service of innovation and creativity. These skills are important to every area of study, STEM and non-STEM alike, and we will be equipping our graduates with portable and shareable abilities they can apply to anything they do in their careers.鈥� Megan HLZacks, science department chair at 糖心视频污HSB, is excited by the possibilities the grant opens up for more inventiveness and ingenuity among the students. 鈥淭hrough this kind of inquiry- and project-based learning,鈥� she said, 鈥渟tudents push themselves to innovate and create solutions to everyday problems, impressing themselves in the process by what they are able to accomplish through previously untapped talents.鈥� This grant follows a similar grant for $191,000 given to The Samuel H. Wang 糖心视频污 High School for Girls from the Gruss Foundation to put in place an innovative STEM program.