Awarded Grants

2024-2025

Kintsugi Way for Student Entrepreneurs

Munster High School students learn the concept of Kintsugi (the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold) and how it applies to entrepreneurship.

WWMS Renaissance Fair

Bringing history to life for sixth graders at Wilbur Wright Middle School with hands-on Renaissance Fair learning stations.

What 3 Little Pigs, Red Riding Hood and Cinderella Have to Do with STEAM

Building a kind, caring and creative learning space for our littlest Colts.

Elevate Elliott: IMPACT Student Development Program

Developing student leaders to foster positive relationships, influence positive behavior and build a positive community.

Game Kits for Frank Hammond Robotics Team

Providing the materials to establish Frank Hammond Elementary School’s first robotics team.

Let’s Glow: Frank Hammond Elementary School

Reinforcing math, vocabulary, language and science concepts with “Glow Day” rooms and activities.

Generation Genius

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

Project Bio: Coral Reef Restoration

Providing a unique opportunity for Project Bio students to learn how coral restoration occurs and use their new diving skills to repair a reef during a spring break class trip to Florida.

MVP Prototype Seed Funding

Funding for raw materials Munster High School student entrepreneurs use to create prototypes.

Munster High School All-Region Honor Choir

64 MHS choir students participated in a vocal clinic with a Butler University professor and sang at the all-region choir event.

Munster High School Robotics Team

Purchasing the materials needed to build a robot for competition.

WWMS Pear Deck Platform

This software program enables WWMS math, language and science teachers to assess individual students’ progress and provide customized content to help build skills

WWMS Mustang Media Grant

Developing students’ broadcast media skills with the purchase of multimedia tools, such as audio/visual equipment and video editing software

IXL for ELA and Math at Eads Elementary

Designing personalized learning experiences for students across subjects, from math to language arts, science, and social studies

Supplies for WWMS Class Tortoise

Supplies to integrate a Russian tortoise into a WWMS classroom, contributing to lessons in math/science, empathy, responsibility and teamwork

Enhancing Literacy and Independence with C-Pen Reader Pens

Revolutionizing literacy support for students with learning disabilities by integrating C-Pens, a cutting-edge assistive technology, into the high school resource room. The pens may also be used by mainstream students.

Scales and Tales Traveling Zoo

Offering an interactive and engaging opportunity for kindergarten students at Elliott Elementary to learn about animals.

State Robotics Competition

Funding the materials for Eads Elementary to build a new robot for state competition and support students as they create a new code for autonomous driving.

The Horseshoe

Equipping the Horseshoe Spirit Store with DTF printing technology to design and produce custom apparel, accessories, and promotional materials in-house, strengthening students’ skills in these areas.

Piano Keyboards: Frank Hammond Elementary

Providing 30 keyboard pianos, a digital piano, speakers and more to help fifth-grade students learn piano.

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