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District announces Bosch robotics grant, library grant application and community donations supporting new flag football program
Summary
Huntley CUSD 158 reported a $15,000 grant from the Bosch Community Fund for high-school robotics, plans to apply for a roughly $7,500 Illinois school library grant, and a series of community donations that will offset start-up costs for the district’s inaugural flag football season.
Huntley Community School District 158 administrators told the board that the district received a $15,000 grant from the Bosch Community Fund to support high-school robotics and plans to apply for an Illinois School Library grant that typically provides about $7,500 to the district for library media materials.
Assistant Superintendent for Learning and Innovation Dr. McRindle told trustees the Bosch award will support STEM programming at the high school, and that library grant dollars are commonly used to purchase books and materials for K–12 libraries. She said the district used last year’s library funds to acquire Ukrainian-language books to better represent the district’s students and that the same approach of targeted purchases is intended if the new grant is awarded.
Superintendent and other staff also presented a list of community donors who contributed gear and cash to help launch the district’s new flag football program. The district acknowledged gifts from individual and business donors including Larry's Red Bandana Society; B & A Rental Properties; Salon Sapphire; King County Excavating Inc.; Event Medical Solutions; Game Theory Escape; and others. Donations listed in the board packet ranged from roughly $200 to $1,500 and are intended to help cover equipment and program start-up costs; district staff said the program’s baseline funding comes from the high-school athletics budget and the donations are supplemental.
Why it matters: the grants and donations reduce the district’s out-of-pocket costs for targeted classroom and extracurricular programs, support STEM and literacy initiatives and helped the district offset initial costs of a new extracurricular offering.
