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2017 Eastern NY Chapter Air & Waste Management Association (16th Annual) Earth Day Grant Program Summary
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School Name |
Location |
Project Name |
Grant |
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Arlington High School |
LaGrangeville |
Measuring Electricity Use in Our Schools |
$669.96 |
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Cambridge Central School |
Cambridge |
Hedges Lake Water Quality Monitoring Study |
$750.00 |
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Charles B. Warring Elementary |
Poughkeepsie |
Tracking A Sign of Spring |
$675.00 |
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Coxsackie- Athens Elementary School |
Coxsackie |
Amping Up Aquatic Awareness! |
$750.00 |
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Coxsackie- Athens HS Env. Science Class |
Coxsackie |
Bees to the Buzz |
$328.00 |
| Gilboa Conesville Central School | Gilboa | Protecting Our Water Resource One Bottle at a Time |
$750.00 |
| Gloversville Middle School | Gloversville | Plant, Grow, Cook, Eat |
$750.00 |
| Mooers Elementary School | Mooers | Drip-line Kindergarten Pumpkin Patch |
$500.00 |
| Oak Hill School | Scotia | Solar Power and Why it Matters |
$650.00 |
| Oakwood Friends School | Poughkeepsie | “Barrel-ly” Saving Water at OFS | $289.07 |
| Orville A. Todd Middle School | Poughkeepsie | Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems |
$750.00 |
| Ostrander Elementary School | Walkill | Ostrander's Collaborative Composting project |
$750.00 |
| Poughkeepsie High School | Poughkeepsie | The Fallkill Creek: Where Students Teach |
$719.80 |
| Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk Middle School | Ravena | Creating an Outdoor Classroom |
$734.00 |
| Shaker High School | Latham | Monitoring Pollinator Diversity |
$750.00 |
| Shaker Road Elementary School | Albany | Take the Shaker Road to STEM 2017 |
$615.00 |
| St. Jude the Apostle School | Wynantskill | Green Water?! Yes, Please! Every Bottle Counts! Drinking Fountain Project |
$750.00 |
| St. Mary’s School | Ticonderoga | Let's Learn About Natural Solutions! |
$737.35 |
| Tamarac High School | Troy | Quackenkill Quality:Water Testing & Macroinvertebrate Sampling |
$740.40 |
| The Free School | Albany | A Garden for Everyone |
$500.00 |
| Wildwood Programs, Inc | Schenectady | Wildwood School Earth Day Event & Composting Project |
$750.00 |
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Total Amount Funded |
$13,909 |
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Sources of Funding for 2017 Grant Program (Earth Day Sponsors):
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Platinum Level ($1,000+) |
Silver Level ($250-$499) |
Bronze Level ($50-$249) |
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Eastern New York AWMA Chapter Foundation for Engineering Education ($2,500) |
C.T. Male Associates CHANGE David Roecker |
Dina Ayers Bob Duff Daniel Lang Andrea Simmons |
As part of our fundraising efforts for the 2017 Grant Program, proceeds from the 5th Annual Peter B. Desrochers Memorial Golf Tournament held September 23, 2016 (±$8,650) included sponsorships from Adirondack Environmental Services, Inc., ARCADIS, C.T. Male Associates, Lockwood Remediation Technologies LLC, Barton & Loguidice, D.P.C., CB&I, Young/Sommer LLC, Paratt Wolff Inc., Pace Analytical, Harris Beach PLLC, Alpha Analytical, Inc., Chemtech, CHANGE, Geotech, In-Situ, MJ Engineering and Land Surveying, P.C., Norlite/Tradebe Environmental Services, LLC, O’Brien & Gere, Phillips Lytle LLP, Precision Industrial Maintenance Inc., Security Integrations, Spectra Environmental Group, Inc., Sharon Desrochers, Bob Duff, Daniel Lang, Mark Williams/Sterling Environmental, and David Roecker.
2017 Education Committee Members
Rod Aldrich, Sterling Environmental Engineering, P.C.; Dina Ayers, ALS Environmental; Bob Duff, SUNY Polytechnic Institute; Joe Farron, C.T. Male Associates; Cris Hine, O’Brien & Gere; Dan Lang, ARCADIS (Chairperson); Georgie Lussier, Foit-Albert Associates