A VWR VistaVision Stereo Microscope donated to a Blue Ridge High School science classroom through the Teacher Store program.  A value of $1,400.

Examples of Previously Sponsored Projects

- Software allowing biology students to perform simulated dissections, thus reducing other supplies and expanding the types of dissections that can be performed.

- Heart Monitors and "Pysioballs" for 4 th-6 th grade PE classes to help expand their focus from sports to teaching active lifestyles as some 6 th graders now exceed 200 lbs.

- Digital Video Camera for Pre K classes to help document children's behavior to help in assessment and communication with parents at conferences.

- Funded the Explore Test, which helps 8 th graders plan their High School curriculum.

-Helped fund the PBIS Program, which rewards Schneider students for exhibiting respectful & responsible behavior by allowing them to turn in "gotcha" slips for school supplies.

- Supplies for the 4 th-8 th grade Mentoring Program to help them continue to mentor at-risk kids in a constructive setting.

- Craft supplies for 6 th graders to make Egyptian masks, Mesopotamian tablets, and Trojan horses as they learn about world cultures.

- Software to automate processing of library materials to the benefit of every campus.

- Continued support of the Accelerated Reader Program, which promotes reading and comprehension.

- Supplies for 2 nd graders to have small animals in the classroom for extended periods including mammals, reptiles & arachnids.

- A reusable Simulated Fossil Dig where grade school students use what they are leaning about anthropology to uncover buried bones & other fossils.

- Supplies for the 5 th grade Victorian Project where students build scrapbooks and dioramas of the time period's lifestyle including the many inventions that came from it.

- Many, many, more...