Awarded Grants

2025-2026

Galaxy on the Go

This mobile planetarium experience brought astronomy to life for Wilbur Wright Middle School students with full-dome visuals.

Cultivating Future Innovators: STEM for Pre-K to Second Grade, Eads

This grant brought BeeBots to younger students at Eads Elementary, allowing them to manipulate physical robots and design solutions for early STEM training.

Robotics Club Funding Across Munster Schools

These grants enabled teams across Munster schools to prepare for robotics competitions and enabled Frank Hammond Elementary to extend the program to third graders, who joined their fourth and fifth grade peers.

Original Composition for Munster High School Choirs to Perform in Ireland

This grant not only gave the MHS Choirs the opportunity to commission an original work for their performances in Dublin and Limerick, Ireland, but offered all high school choir students the ability to learn an original piece and work with the composer.

Novels for Fifth-Grade Classes at Frank Hammond Elementary

Fifth-grade students at Frank Hammond read the novel "Restart" by Gordon Korman about a bully who has lost his memory. In doing so, teachers incorporated the text into iLearn preparation.

WPrototype Funding for Munster High School Entrepreneurs

Students in entrepreneurship classes pitch proposals for businesses, with the best ideas receiving funding for prototypes through this grant.

WWMS Science Olympiad Team Materials

Students at Wilbur Wright Middle School gained funding for materials that helped them prepare for state competition, putting advanced science and engineering concepts to work.

Keyboards for Music Classes at Elliott Elementary

This grant funded 25 keyboards for Elliott Elementary students to develop hands-on skills in music class.

Jacob's Ladder High-Ability Curriculum

RThe Jacob’s Ladder Reading Comprehension Program strengthens reading comprehension and critical thinking skills in high-ability learners at Eads Elementary through an inquiry-based approach.

Generation Genius

At Elliott Elementary School, a supplemental science and math program offers dynamic resources for students.

Project Bio: Kayaking the Mangroves

By purchasing a training kayak for Project Bio students, these students not only helped restore a coral reef during their spring break class trip to Florida, but also navigated the Florida mangroves by kayak during their trip, providing unique first-hand experiences.

MVP Hedgehog Hannah

FHedgehog Hannah is an educational animal outreach program, providing live, interactive lessons. Students learned about ecosystems, biodiversity, adaptations, and how organisms interact within their environments through direct observation of live animal ambassadors.

Munster Speech and Debate: Empowering Student Voices

This grant helped support competition costs for the MHS award-winning speech and debate program, providing students with meaningful, real-world learning experiences through

performance, competition, and community support.

Enhancing Student Learning Through Digital Media

This grant funded professional-grade video cameras and recording classes for Munster High School marketing and entrepreneurship classes, empowering them to produce high-quality digital commercials, social media content, and entrepreneurial video pitches.

Freeze-Drying Equipment for MHS Snack Shack

This grant enabled business students at Munster High School to test ideas for snack products and sell them to MHS students, providing a real-time environment for business learning and experimentation.

WWMS Mustang Media Grant

This grant provided the tools for students to develop broadcast media skills with the purchase of multimedia tools, such as audio/visual equipment and video editing software.

IXL for ELA, Math Classes and More

At various Munster schools, this software helps provide personalized learning experiences for students across subjects, from math to language arts, science, and social studies.

Scales and Tales Traveling Zoo

This hands-on experience offers an interactive and engaging opportunity for kindergarten students at Elliott Elementary to learn about animals.

Choose Your Own Adventure in Elementary Libraries

This grant funds activities like interactive displays, puzzles, and artsy opportunities in each elementary school library, allowing students to choose how they would like to spend their time in the library.

Two high school students review a drawing in class. One points to it while standing, the other looks at the drawing while sitting.

MHS Entrepreneurial Students

Create-Your-Own-Board Game Kits

A group of scuba divers gathered at the center of a pool with lane markers, while another diver observes from a distance.

Project Bio

Repairing a Coral Reef

A young student with red headphones holds a tablet showing a Rocket Math problem and interacts with the screen in class.

Eads Elementary 1st Grade Classes

Rocket Math Fact Fluency

School Grants

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Apply for an MEF Grant

Any educator may request a grant, including teachers, aides, parents, administrators, and community members. Questions? Contact MEF Grant Chair Wendy Bockelmann at info@munstereducationfoundation.org.

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Our Grants Aren’t Limited to the Classroom

MEF grants support learning opportunities outside school too, such as a recent trip to the Field Museum in Chicago for Elliott Elementary fifth-graders. 

SEE Our Grants in Action