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Matt
Garber, Testing & Operations Manager, Monsanto
(Greenville), Chris Seger, Business Manager, DeColores
Montessori
School, Sharon Vanden Bosch, Assistant Principal, DeColores Montessori
School.
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DeColores
Montessori receives $10,000 Monsanto grant
Greenville, Ohio (June 23, 2016) –Employees from Monsanto Company
recommended the DeColores Montessori School to receive a $10,000 grant
from the Monsanto Fund’s 2016 site grant initiative. Funds from the
grant will be used to renovate an existing structure at the DeColores
Montessori Farm School into a high tech STEM (Science, Technology,
Engineering, and Math) Fab Lab.
“We, at DeColores Montessori, are grateful to the Monsanto Fund and are
very excited to take the first steps in creating a STEM 'Fab Lab’ that
will equip our school with tools to enhance students' abilities to be
innovators and problem solvers,” said Sharon Vanden Bosch, Assistant
Principal at DeColores Montessori School. "Our school has provided
Darke County and the surrounding area with 30 years of quality
education. The development of the STEM 'Fab Lab' complements our
"hands-on" approach to learning, and we feel that this technology will
provide tremendous opportunities for growth and development which will
serve not only our students and school, but also the whole community. ”
“Monsanto encourages the furthering of education locally in agriculture
and STEM related courses and training. The Montessori Farm School Lab
will enhance this training for students from the local community,” said
Matt Garber Site Lead at Greenville. “We’re happy to support the
DeColores Montessori School with this Monsanto Fund grant.”
This year, the Monsanto Fund awarded more than $1.4 million to
nonprofit organizations through its site grant initiative to help
address essential needs in rural communities. Nonprofit organizations
across the U.S. have received more than $7.5 million through this
program over the last five years.
About the DeColores Montessori School
At DeColores Montessori, we are committed to helping each child develop
attitudes of self-motivation, self-confidence, inner discipline,
respect for others, and love of learning. This is accomplished through
the use of Montessori materials and philosophy, ungraded classrooms,
individualized instruction, and freedom within limits.
Our goals are for students to be open-minded and compassionate; to gain
a sense of themselves and others, and to understand and appreciate the
diversity of the human spirit. Students are well-trained in the basic
academic disciplines, while fulfilling their creative, physical,
emotional, social, and cognitive potential.
About Monsanto Fund
The Monsanto Fund, the philanthropic arm of the Monsanto Company, is a
nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening the communities where
farmers and Monsanto Company employees live and work. Visit the
Monsanto Fund at www.monsantofund.org.
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