North Hills Schools Receive $20,000 Grant

The grant award serves as the first step in the district’s re-envisioning of the high school and middle school libraries. 

North Hills will utilize the funds to provide creation stations where students will be able to work collaboratively and creatively on hands-on projects that are focused on STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Mathematics). STEAM encourages a commitment to creativity, contextual thinking and other aptitudes deemed critical to the college and career readiness demands of the future.

Each library will be equipped with creation stations that will house multimedia-based equipment and with access to digital library resources - creating spaces where students will work collaboratively on technology-infused projects that demonstrate mastery levels of learning. 

Access to digital library resources such as electronic research databases, journals and online documents will serve as the foundation for students to create research-based multimedia projects. Additionally, the high school library will house a green screen area with video recording and editing equipment for students to produce video-based projects.

These new areas will serve as invaluable resources to the high school’s STEAM-focused Academic Academies and will become places for social learning and gathering for students and faculty.

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