2021 Mini-Grants for Educators Awardees

Multiple mini-grants this year will support planting native flowering plants to feed native pollinators. Photo by Jeff Bryant.

Every year, CCAS offers grants (up to $250 each) to educators in Champaign County to support environmental education. Thank you to our donors who make these grants possible! And congratulations to this year’s awardees:

J.W. Eater Junior High

• Contact Person: Ryan Thomas
  Project Title: Creation of outdoor learning center

• Contact Person: Kate Higgs
  Project Title: Flora for outdoor learning center

• Contact Person: Kathy Flanagan
  Project Title: Artistic creations for outdoor learning center

Mahomet-Seymour High School – Biology Dept.

• Contact Person: Emily Waddell-Grider
  Project Title: Microscopes to help study prairie wildlife

Middletown Prairie Elementary

• Contact Person: Heather Jackson
  Project Title: The very impatient caterpillar

St. Andrew’s Lutheran Campus Center

• Contact Person: Brendan O’Shaughnessy
  Project Title: The pocket prairie at St. Andrew’s Lutheran Campus Center

St. Thomas School

• Contact Person: Betty Kolakowski
  Project Title: Leveled science readers