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Livingston County Schools Awarded $25K STEM Grant

Livingston County Schools Awarded $25K STEM Grant
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By West Kentucky Star Staff
Sep. 18, 2018 | LIVINGSTON COUNTY
By West Kentucky Star Staff Sep. 18, 2018 | 11:56 AM | LIVINGSTON COUNTY
An area school district has been awarded a grant for science, technology, engineering and math programs.

According to a press release, America’s Farmers Grow Rural Education asked local farmers to help nominate rural schools to receive nearly $2.3 million in grants to enhance their STEM programs. The Grow Rural Education program, sponsored by the Monsanto Fund, a philanthropic arm of Bayer, has awarded the Livingston County School District a $25,000 grant.

Livingston County School District will reportedly use the money to provide high school students skills and knowledge by participating in the CNC Plasma Arc Cutting curriculum, which includes hands-on experience using a real world industrial plasma cutting machine, positioning them for employment in a variety of occupations including machining, welding, drafting, design and commercial art. 

To qualify for a Grow Rural Education grant, farmers nominated a public school district to compete for a merit-based grant of either $10,000 or $25,000. Nominated school districts then submitted a grant application that outlined how they would use the funds to enhance their students’ STEM education. A panel of qualified teachers review the applications and narrow it down to the finalists. The program’s Farmer Advisory Council, comprising about 30 farmers from across the country, then select the winning school districts.
 
Grow Rural Education has awarded more than $16 million to more than 900 school districts since the program began in 2011.
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