2023 Mini-Grants for Educators Awardees

Bumblebee on purple coneflower. 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 spring’s awardees:

Barkstall Elementary School, Champaign

• Contact Person: Grant Thomas
  Project Title: Block Print Birds
  Grade Level: 5th grade

Dr. Williams Elementary, Urbana

• Contact Person: Bryan Lake
  Project Title: Butterflies, Birds, Bees & New Beginnings
  Grade Level: K–5th grade

Middletown Prairie Elementary, Mahomet

• Contact Person: Heather Jackson
  Project Title: “Bee” Kind
  Grade Level: 1st grade

The Montessori School of Champaign-Urbana

• Contact Person: Brekke Day
  Project Title: Native Plant and Bird Garden
  Grade Level: 1st–5th grade

Urbana High School, Urbana

• Contact Person: Joan Jach
  Project Title: Birds and Biodiversity in Carle Park Urbana
  Grade Level: 9th–12th grade