Edwardsburg Primary receives Midwest Energy grant
Published 2:21 pm Thursday, January 29, 2015
First-grade students at Edwardsburg Primary School will visit the WNDU-TV weather lab this spring thanks to a Strengthening Schools grant from Midwest Energy Cooperative. The grant was submitted by first-grade teacher Margaret Sevison (top row, right). Lori Ruff (far left), community relations specialist, and Della Bundle, a Midwest member and representative of the grant committee, surprised Sevison at a special assembly of students in late January. (Leader photo/SCOTT NOVAK)
Edwardsburg Primary School was one of 18 public schools that received a grant from Midwest Energy Cooperative.
Midwest Energy surprised first-grade teacher Margaret Sevison with a check for $350 Friday.
“I teach science to the first graders and I thought we always wanted to do something with weather, since that is one of our Michigan bench marks,” Sevison said. “I thought it would be great to go to an actual weather station so they could see the day-to-day things that go into predicting the weather.”
Sevison said she was excited to find out that her school was going to be one of the recipients of a grant.
“I even came in like snow days to keep checking my mailbox to see if I got it,” she said. “It is just a real neat opportunity for the kids.”
Edwardsburg Primary was not the only local school to receive a grant. Here is a list of others who received grants:
• Brookside Learning Center, Cassopolis, $2,125 for early childhood special education play centers
• Edwardsburg High School, $2,500 for supplies for the robotics team
• Northpointe Learning Center, Cassopolis, $2,500 for “PC Eye Go” which allows people with significant motor impairments to use their eyes to operate a computer system
