Strengthening Schools Grant Winners - 2024 Award Cycle
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Strengthening Schools Grants
In December 2024, we awarded Strengthening Schools Grants to local teachers, administrators, and school officials to help them bring new and exciting learning opportunities to students throughout our service territory. The program is funded by partnership dollars through our power supplier, Wolverine Power Cooperative.
We’re proud to offer these grants each year to those who share our vision of creating vibrant, relevant, and sustainable rural communities. A team of MEC customers evaluates all applications without knowledge of the applicants, districts, or communities.
Take a look at this year's winners and their projects:
- Bloomingdale Middle & High School: Handheld CNC router
- Brandywine Middle/Senior High School: New books for classroom
- Cassopolis Alternative/Adult Education: Adjustable standing desk converters and Bluetooth earbuds
- Cassopolis Middle School: Staff crisis prevention training/recertification
- Colon Elementary School: Classroom sensory station
- Edwardsburg Middle School: 3D printer for computer coding classes
- Edwardsburg Middle School: eGlass technology tool
- Edwardsburg Primary: Classroom bookshelves and fluorescent light covers
- Gobles High School: New graphing calculators
- Lenawee Intermediate School District: Books for classroom libraries and presentation clickers
- Madison Middle School: Supplies to start an Italian ice business for students
- Mattawan Early Elementary: Math & Movement mats
- Mattawan Early Elementary: Sensory light table
- Mattawan High School: Creation of an escape room
- Mendon High School: Copies of “The Little Liar” for 9th grade English & history classes
- Michener Elementary School: Yoto Players with cards for audiobooks
- Onsted Middle School: Cricut machine and supplies for Fab Lab course
- Onsted Middle School and High School: Delta Math Response to Intervention program
- Paw Paw High School: Laser engraver and tumbler
- Paw Paw High School: Pay-It-Forward class supplies and expenses
- Paw Paw Later Elementary: Supplies for school therapy dog program
- Paw Paw Middle School: Hardback novels and leveled reading texts for middle schoolers
- Redwood Elementary School: Floor rug for music classroom
- Springbrook Middle School: Equipment for Piano Exploration Camp
- Tecumseh High School: New equipment for school weight room
- Van Buren Intermediate School District: Sensory equipment
- Van Buren Intermediate School District (Early Childhood): Licensing for Tobii Dynavox augmentative and alternative communication equipment
- Vicksburg Middle School: iPad for middle school band
- Watervliet High School: Camera lens for yearbook class
- Watervliet High School: Novels for high school special education students
2025-2026 Grant Cycle
Information and applications for the 2025-26 funding cycle will be available at teammidwest.com beginning in April. Keep an eye on future issues of Country Lines for further details.
Grant Reviewers Needed
Did you know that MEC electric customers decide which proposals get funded? We need volunteers for the upcoming award cycle!
If you can dedicate time to reviewing, discussing, and awarding grants, including meeting in person for one full weekday in the fall, please email pr@teammidwest.com.
The review committee does not know the school, educator, or district when determining recipients.