Grape Creek Middle School Receives $10K STEM Grant

GRAPE CREEK, TX – The Grape Creek Middle School was awarded a $10,000 grant through the America's Farmers Grow Rural Education program sponsored by the Bayer Fund. 

Jearl Holland presented a check to the Grape Creek ISD Thursday at noon in the middle school gym.  

Grape Creek was nominated local farmer Scott Smetana. 

Grape Creek ISD is one of many schools across the country that has benefited from the Grow Rural Education program.

According to information presented Thursday, the grant will allow Grape Creek to purchase two Smart boards for use in the intermediate Elementary campus.  

"America's Farmers Grow Rural Education is a unique program because farmers play an important role throughout the process, from nominating schools to selecting the grant winners." said Al Mitchell, President of the Bayer Fund. 

 To qualify for the grant, a farmer nominates a school to compete for the merit based grant of $10,000 to $25,000.  The school then submits an application describing the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) project. 

Approximately 30 farmers from across the country reviewed the applications and selected Grape Creek along with other award recipients. 

Since 2011, the Bayer Fund has awarded over $18 million to more than 1,000 schools in rural communities across the country. 

The Bayer Fund is a nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening the overall health and well being in communities where farmers and Bayer employees live and work.