Boulevard Elementary awarded $100,000 grant

Boulevard Elementary receives $100,000 grant to help implement its Discovery Pathway. The Discovery pathway allows students to learn by interacting with the physical world.

Boulevard Elementary School in the Cleveland Heights-University Heights City School District is a recent recipient of a competitive grant from the Garrett A. Morgan Technology and Transportation Education Program (GAMTTEP). The U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration awarded the school $100,000 to implement its Discovery pathway for the K-5 students. Discovery is an educational pathway that focuses on learning from a perspective of interacting with the physical world, which is structured around the proven STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) model.

The grant will allow students to engage in transportation engineering projects by grade level to explore the “flow” around them through projects illustrating traffic (auto, school bus, bicycle, and pedestrian), transport (moving garden goods to market), and water (transporting water to school planting via local watersheds). Active partnerships with educational, governmental and organizational partners will provide real-world experiences through presentations and tours and provide role models for careers in engineering, science and math. Parents will see their children involved in hands-on projects that explore the world around them using science, math, and engineering principles.