MVEF Receives $100k Grant from Google to Support STEM Programs for 2021-22

The Mountain View Educational Foundation (MVEF) is honored to receive a $100,000 grant from Google.org, Google’s philanthropic arm, to support California Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) for students in the Mountain View Whisman School District (MVWSD). Google.org’s grant will help fund the ‘Living Classroom’ program to provide an interdisciplinary and practical science-based curriculum that meets NGSS, and ‘Discovery Education’ to support STEM-RTI programs that help implement NGSS for all elementary school students in the district. 

The Living Classroom program empowers the next generation by building environmental champions. Lesson plans expose students to garden-based education through hands-on learning in their schoolyard gardens. Students learn essential topics such as photosynthesis, life cycles, ecology, and the scientific method to help students build a future that is more environmentally sustainable. The curriculum reinforces students’ learning in the classroom and at home as students observe the impact of their efforts year after year.

MVEF is grateful for Google.org’s continued support of MVEF and MVWSD with over a million dollars of historical grants to uplift student learning in Mountain View. 

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