Impact of the Idaho State Board of Education and the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund and the American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act of 2021 (March 11, 2021).
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OST Planning Grants
Six libraries received $20,000 Out-of-School Time Planning grants. These grants will help libraries to engage in activities that strategically develop their programs and services for youth. The following libraries received this grant:
- Ada Community Library – to build partnerships that provided experiential STEAM and culinary learning opportunities.
- Donnelly Public Library District – to expand the library’s Dragon Readers Club, which offers afterschool care and activities for the Donnelly community
- Gooding Public Library District – to purchase equipment to provide experiential culinary learning opportunities
- Meridian Library District – to fund and expand its Junior Librarian Internship opportunities for underserved youth
- Oneida County Library – to expand the popular kindergarten readiness kits program to older students
- Prairie River Library District – to fund homework help opportunities, and provide access to college readiness and scholarship resources
Summer Strategies Grants
Seven libraries received $30,000 Summer Strategies grants – for a total of $210,000! – to use research-based best practices to build summer learning programs that connect with the library’s strategic plan. The following libraries received this grant:
- Boise Public Library – to provide targeted outreach to underserved communities
- Burley Public Library – to support tween and teen mental health and bring authors to their community
- Donnelly Public Library – to help fund its summer reading and school preparation camps
- Gooding Public Library District – to expand it summer reading resources and serve more of the Gooding community
- Hailey Public Library – to leverage partnerships to address the unique summer enrichment needs of Hailey’s underserved communities
- Meridian Library District – to expand the popular Tales by Mail program to include older youth
- Prairie River Library District – to enhance summer reading enrichment programs at the district’s eight library locations
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Summer of Innovation Grants
Grants funds total more than $1.4 million and have been awarded to 34 programs providing comprehensive and specialty programming.
Here are the 16 programs that received grant funds for comprehensive programming:
- “I Have a Dream” Foundation Idaho – Hailey – 2023 summer only
- Ada Community Library Star Branch – Star – 2023 and 2024 summers
- Boise State University TRIO Upward Bound – Boise – 2023 and 2024 summers
- Discovery Center of Idaho Summer Camp Program – Boise – 2023 and 2024 summers
- Coeur d’Alene Public School District Summer Intervention Academy – Coeur d’Alene – 2023 and 2024 summers
- Donnelly Public Library Hogwarts in Donnelly – Donnelly – 2023 and 2024 summers
- Treasure Valley Family YMCA Caldwell and Wilder Y Kids – Caldwell – 2023 and 2024 summers
- Selkirk Outdoor Leadership & Education (S.O.L.E) – Sandpoint – 2023 and 2024 summers
- City of Star Recreation Summer Programming – Star – 2023 and 2024 summers
- Girl Scouts of Silver Sage Camp Echo Day Camp – Boise – 2023 and 2024 summers
- Wendell School District Hub City Initiative: STEAM Club Summer School – Wendell – 2023 and 2024 summers
- Vine and Branch Ranch Community Jardin School – Caldwell – 2023 and 2024 summers
- Idaho Botanical Garden Summer STEAM Camps – Boise – 2023 and 2024 summers
- Marsing 21st CCLC Academies (LLASER) – Marsing – 2023 and 2024 summers
- The Peregrine Fund Raptor High – Boise – 2023 and 2024 summers
- Breaking Chains Academy of Development Inc Summer Youth Empowerment – Nampa – 2023 and 2024 summers
Here are the 18 programs that received grant funds for specialty programming for the 2023 Summer:
- Boise Rock School – Boise
- Brighter Together – Meridian
- Caldwell School District Syringa Middle Summer Bridge Program – Caldwell
- Cassia School District Spark Afterschool Program – Burley
- Children’s Museum of Magic Valley – Twin Falls
- City of Troy Youth Summer Program – Troy
- Emmett School District Elementary/Middle School Summer Learning – Emmett
- Gemstone Adaptive Climbing – Twin Falls
- Gizmo CDA, Inc – Coeur d’Alene
- International Rescue Committee Boise Youth Services – Garden City
- Jefferson School District World Language Immersion Summer Camp – Rigby
- Nampa School District First Generation Leadership Summit – Nampa
- Payette School District Pirate STEM Camp – Payette
- U of I Silver Valley, Benewah, Latah Upward Bound – Sandpoint
- West Ada School District Summer of Steam – Boise
- West Bonner Library SALTI Teens – Priest River
- Zoo Idaho Zoological Society Education/Programming Summer – Pocatello
- Salmon Substance Abuse Prevention Coalition – Salmon
School Year Enrichment (SYE) Grants
Funds totaling more than $1.12 million have been awarded to 19 qualifying nonprofit organizations, public schools, faith-based organizations, and/or municipalities by the Idaho Out-of-School Network.
These one-time funds will be shared by 19 Idaho youth programs:
North Idaho
- Music Conservatory of Sandpoint – Music Matters! Outreach Classes (Sandpoint)
- University of Idaho Extension in Kootenai County – 4-H Youth Development Program (Post Falls)
- Coeur d’Alene SD #271 – Out of School Time Enrichments (Coeur d’Alene)
- Cornerstone Teen Center (Nez Perce)
- Growing the STEM (Coeur d’Alene)
- University of Idaho Extension in Schitsu’umsh Reservation – School Enrichment (Plummer)
Southwest Idaho
- Boys and Girls Club of Western Treasure Valley (Payette)
- Breaking Chains Academy of Development (Nampa)
- Cascade SD #422 – Cascade Afterschool Program (CAP) (Cascade)
- Emmett SD #221 – Afterschool Clubs (Emmett)
- Future Public School – Rocket to the Moon! Engineer Enrichment Center (Garden City)
- Lee Pesky Learning Center – LP Literacy Pods: Finishing Unfinished Learning (Boise)
- Marsing Joint SD #363 – Academies STEAM Academic Plan (ASAP) (Marsing)
- Tanta, Inc. – Beyond Study Hall (Boise)
- Treasure Valley YMCA – Wilder Y Kids (Wilder)
- University of Idaho Extension in Canyon County – 4-H Youth Development (Caldwell)
Magic Valley and Eastern Idaho
- Children’s Museum of Magic Valley – CMMV On the Go! (Twin Falls)
- ABC – Above and Beyond Classroom of Teton Valley (Driggs)
- American Falls School District #381 – Fired Up After School (American Falls)
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Out-of-School STEM Programming Grants
- STEMGEM After School and Summer Program, Lewis Clark State College
- STEM Goes WILD at SOLE!, Selkirk Outdoor Leadership and Education (SOLE), Inc.
- STEAM After School and Summer Camp, Summit Elementary School, Jerome, Idaho
- Afterschool STEM Opportunities for Students K-6 at MOSAICS Public School, MOSAICS Public School
- Victory Branch Family STEM night, Ada Community Library – Victory Branch
- Girl Scouts STEM Outreach Program, Girl Scouts of Silver Sage Council
- Children’s Museum on the Go, Children’s Museum of the Magic Valley
- STEM All Around: STEAM Curiosity, afterschool expanding to bring stem to others, Southside Elementary School/LPOSD #84
- Coeur d’Alene School District 271 After School STEM Enrichments, Coeur d’Alene School District 271
- STEM Helping Students Play Catch-Up, West Minico Middle School
- Ready, Set, Drone!, Midway Elementary School
- After-School Science and Engineering Club, Hobbs Middle School Science & Technology Club
- FIRST Lego League (FLL) Lego Explore Club and Expo, Hubbard Elementary School
- Connecting Rural Idaho Communities from Notus to Parma, Notus School District
- Whittier Family STEM Night and Summer STEM Learning Kits, Whittier Elementary
- Whitney Elementary Summer Science Camp, Whitney Elementary
- STEM Summer Programming with Edventures Curriculum, Basin Elementary School
- YMCA Camp STEM Enrichment Initiative, Treasure Valley Family YMCA
- Planting STEM Seeds, Lewiston Independent Foundation for Education
- Women in Virtual Reality Coding Camp, Oakley High School
- Boundary County Library Summer Robotics Program, Boundary County Library
- Challenges, Challenges Everywhere! Let’s Solve Them with PBL and STEM!, John Brown Elementary School
- iDRONE Summer CAMP Online to Promote STEM Pipelines across Idaho, University of Idaho
- Pizza-ology, University of Idaho
- Filling the Learning Loss Hole while having Fun in the Summer, Aberdeeb Elementary School
- Graphics Art/AutoCad STEAM Program for Out of School Learning, Oneida County Library
- Summer STREAM at the Library, Gooding Public Library
- OHS Starry Sky Explorers, Oakley Jr. Sr. High School
- Out of School STEM Funding Grant, Priest River Elementary
- Blacksmithing and Casting: The Science of Metallurgy, and Fluid Dynamics, Kendrick High School
- Whitney Elementary- Year-Round STEM Enrichment (After-school & Summer Program), Whitney Elementary
- Dragon Readers Club After School Program, Donnelly Public Library
- STEM Creativity Carnival, University of Idaho
- Preston Junior High After-School C.A.S.T. Program, Preston Junior High School
- CCLC After-School Program, CCLC After-School Program of Lake Pend Oreille School District #84
- STEMMING Learning Loss through Active Engagement, Genesee Joint District #282
- Out of School Explorations in STEAM with Idaho Botanical Garden, Idaho Botanical Garden
- Ada Communtiy Library After-School STEM Programs and Family STEM Events, Lake Hazel Branch, Victory Branch
- Ignite Their Future STEM Summer Camp, Idaho State University, College of Technology
- Sugar Salem After School STEM Club, Sugar-Salem Junior High School/Kershaw Intermediate School
- Afterschool Virtual Reality Coding Club, Oakley High School
- Think, Make, Create: STEAM for All, United Way of Idaho Falls and Bonneville County
- Reach for the Stars Planetarium & STEM Camps, Children’s Museum of Idaho
- STARBASE Idaho 2.0 and 3.0 Advanced After-School Programs, STARBASE Idaho
- Robotics Club Increase, Rigby High School
- STEM Outreach and Afterschool Program, Marsh Valley School District
- After School STEM Programs for all ages, PI STEM Academy
- Bogus Basin SnowSchool STEM Camp, Bogus Basin Mountain Recreation Area
- Cascade Library After-School STEM Program, Cascade Public Library
- Makers On The Move, Gizmo-CDA, Inc.
- Out of School STEM camp for Title 1 Whittier Elementary, Bananas Robotics Inc.
- DNA: Links To Our Past And Direction For Our Future, South Hills Middle School
- Hobbs Middle School Science Club, Hobbs Middle School
- Hidden Springs Elementary School PFA, Hidden Springs Elementary
- Afterschool STEM Opportunities for K-7 Students at MOSAICS Public School, MOSAICS Public School
- Afterschool Autonomous Robotics Club, Galileo STEM Academy
- Seven Oaks Elementary PTA Family STEM Night, Seven Oaks Elementary PTA
- STEAM Night at White Pine Elementary School, White Pine Elementary School
- Bengal Math Lab, Lewiston High School
- STEM After School Club Riverview Elementary, Riverview Elementary
- Afterschool STEM Nights, REUSEUM Educational, Inc.
- Building STEAM for Students, Lewiston Independent Foundation for Education
- Challis Public Library STEM Funding Request for OST Grant 2024, Challis Public Library
- YMCA STEM Initiative – Ada County, Treasure Valley Family YMCA
- General Program Support for Afterschool Programming, Boise Urban Garden School
- K-5 STEM Summer Camp: Developing STEM Skills using PBL Learning Activities, College of Education
- McCall Outdoor Science School for Low Income Middle Schoolers, East Valley Middle School