Dorothy Stout Grant Recipients for 2024

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Provenance: Zoe Voigt, Carleton College
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Kelli has been passionately teaching for 35 years and currently is a Magnet Coordinator for two gifted schools. Her favorite past time is finding ways to fund engaging, hands-on learning experiences for her schools. She will be using the grant funds for the bus transportation to send her 2^nd grade gifted students and 4^th grade highly gifted students to the La Brea Tar Pits, which is an active paleontological research site in urban Los Angeles and was formed around a group of tar pits where natural asphalt has seeped up from the ground for tens of thousands of years. Over many centuries, the bones of trapped animals have been preserved. Students will get to observe an active fossil dig where scientists are uncovering everything from small plant seeds to giant ground sloths. 

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Provenance: Zoe Voigt, Carleton College
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Matthew is a Mechanical Engineering and Special Education teacher at Tottenville High School in Staten Island, New York. With a passion for hands-on learning, he firmly believes in fostering a learning environment where students not only acquire skills for the careers of tomorrow but also unearth their hidden confidence. His classroom is a makerspace where students use the engineering design process to create prototypes to real-world problems, often environmental in nature. Matthew plans on using the grant funds to build a custom wave tank that will be used to simulate Staten Island coastal erosion caused by superstorms. His students will use the wave tank to design sea walls that mitigate the effects of hurricanes strengthened by climate change.