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1:50 Spreading Peace with Sunflowers Featured

When the students and staff of Ridge Wood Elementary come and leave school, they are surrounded by sunny sunflowers in the vestibule. The school's Culture Club started the project to spread peace.

1:50 NEF Innovative Grants 2022: Tara Fortino Featured

Tara Fortino, a Kindergarten teacher at Winchester Elementary was awarded a Northville Educational Foundation Innovative Grant this year. Her project's name is Learning through Lego! Ms. Fortino purchased a couple boxes of legos for her students to learn and play with.

1:40 NEF Innovative Grants 2022: Rich Cole Featured

This year, the Northville Educational Foundation awarded a total of $25,000 to teachers and staff throughout the district.

This year, Rich Cole and Melanie Obrigkeit, science teachers at Northville High School, received a grant for Spectrophotometer for Real-Life Scenario Chemistry Labs. Katie Rork, NPS district communications specialist, captured the students using the new Spectrophotometer during a lab.

1:15 NEF Innovative Grants 2022: Beth Hutton Featured

Since 2009, the Northville Educational Foundation has awarded over $250,000 in innovative grants to teachers and staff throughout the district. This year, a total of $25,000 has been allocated for multiple grants, up to $3,000 per grant submission.

This year, Beth Hutton, resource room teacher at Hillside Middle School, received grant money for her project called Learning is Magnetic.

1:47 NEF Innovative Grants 2022: Angie Mazurek Featured

Since 2009, the Northville Educational Foundation has awarded over $250,000 in innovative grants to teachers and staff throughout the district. This year, a total of $25,000 has been allocated for multiple grants, up to $3,000 per grant submission.

This year, Angie Mazurek and Jessica Baitinger (NHS) received grant money for their Hunt A Killer project.

3:11 NHS First Inclusion Week Recap Featured

During the week of Valentine’s Day in 2022, Northville High School hosted its first ever Inclusion Week. The week highlighted and celebrated the progress NHS has made in providing a supportive atmosphere to an increasingly diverse student population.

Last year, NHS was selected as a Special Olympics National Banner Unified Champion School. This recognition means NHS demonstrates commitment to inclusion by meeting 10 national standards of excellence.

The first day of Inclusion Week, students wore red for love and inclusion. During lunch, students flocked to the inclusion table to sign unity banners, pledging to spread the word inclusion.

Tuesday was pajama day! Students and staff were able to buy unified wrist bands and stickers. All proceeds went toward the school’s polar plunge for Special Olympics of Michigan.

On Wednesday, students and staff were encouraged to show their light by wearing neon. During seminar, a Sparkle video (watch entire video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owsywVDwPfs) was shown featuring Malachi Baughman, who has autism. Malachi recently started handing out handmade notes of inspiration to random students at school, he calls it “sparkle spread”. The video encouraged other students to join Malachi in spreading sparkle. At lunch, jars were set out with staff members names on them. Students dropped money into the jars to vote for which staff members should participate in the polar plunge.

Thursday, was white out day to support the Special Olympics Polar Plunge. During each of the lunches, players of the girls, boys, and unified basketball teams were announced. The mini-pep rally got the kids hyped for Friday night’s big games.

Despite a snow day on Friday, the Unified basketball game was still able to take place. The Mustangs played tough and had a blast playing at home against Novi. After the game, Special Olympics Michigan presented Northville High School with a National Unified Champion School banner.

The following week, several staff members were freezing for a reason as they took the plunge for Special Olympics. The school raised more than $8,000!!

A successful first Inclusion Week is in the books, with many more to come!

2:26 Full STEAM Ahead Featured

This is the first school year for the STEAM Program. STEAM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math. Thanks to the passage of Bond 2017, our elementary schools were able to create new learning environments called Maker Spaces.

Kim Chenoweth is the elementary STEAM teacher. She has been rotating between all of the elementary schools.

You can see the gears turning in these little engineer's heads as they plan, create, and play in this special space, even highlighting a potential career path.

The Northville Education Foundation helped fund a lot of the supplies, 3D printers, robots, and so much more. A true community effort to making this STEAM dream a reality.

3:56 Two NPS Teams Selected As Top Finalists in World Competition Featured

Two teams from Northville Public Schools are finalists in the international Airport Design Challenge, sponsored by the Federal Aviation Administration. Team Aireos is made up of 5 NHS students and Team Aero is made up of 5 NPS elementary students.

The goal for the project is to create a virtual airport using Minecraft. Team Aireos got a behind the scenes tour of DTW Airport to help with their research for this year's competition. The team took notes so they could create a 1:1 scaling of the airport, and then added some of their own innovations.

"We had the sandipods which was another project, it was another STEM project where we had to create an innovation just solely to help a modern problem. We chose to do the sandipods, which stands for Sanitization Pod, meaning that we could put this at a major area and have people walk through it, get sanitized, tested for covid," said Chet Sands, member of Team Aireos.

And one of the team member's little brothers was so inspired, he started his own team; Team Aero.

"It was all a team effort, honestly, I'm really proud of my team and what we've done, all the support and guidance we've had along the way, it was absolutely key to making this happen," said Arjun Saini, student leader of Team Aireos.

On February 17, 2022, Team Aireos received 1st place in the world for their age group and Team Aero received 3rd place for their age group.

2:57 Thornton Creek Embraces Kindness Rocks Project Featured

The Thornton Creek Elementary School Student Lighthouse Team painted about 200 kindness rocks which were placed on their playground for students to find. Once found, students are encouraged to return the rocks to the media center and pick up a Pay It Forward paper. The paper provides several Pay It Forward ideas for kids to help brighten someone’s day.

This project is in memory of Porter Riedl. The community is also encouraged to partake in the movement: Pay It Forward For Porter. To learn more, visit their instagram page at @PayItForwardForPorter.

3:20 Northville Public Schools Highlights Hardworking Food Service Staff Featured

Northville Public Schools has an incredibly dedicated food service staff and they have been put through the ringer this year.

"I've worked over 20 years in food service and the last two and a half years have been like nothing else I've ever experienced. Food service is always challenging, it's always fast paced, it's always a little bit of where you have to think on your feet. The last two and a half years have been five times that, ten times that. Covid just kind of put a wrench in everything, multiple times, sometimes the day before. It's been crazy," explained Carrie Morfino, food service manager, NPS.

Lunches are free for students this year, it's a blessing and a curse because the already understaffed lunch ladies are serving triple the number of kids they're use to and the food supply chain is lacking.

Right now, NPS food service is trying to fill more than 15 part-time and full-time positions around the district. To apply, visit www.northvilleschools.org, and then click on the Employment button, then Current Job Openings. A big thank you goes out to our food service staff for providing nutritious meals made with love each and every day.

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