This project provides middle school students with a community-centered STEM experience where they apply the Engineering Design Process to modify electric ride-on toy vehicles for children. 

By working with circuitry, wiring, and adaptive fabrication alongside families and healthcare professionals, students will develop technical skills, empathy, and social responsibility while delivering life-changing mobility solutions.

This project will equip 4th and 5th-grade art students with digital cameras to build visual literacy and creative confidence through hands-on digital photography. 

By exploring perspective, composition, and peer critiques, students will learn to tell purposeful visual stories while bridging traditional art with modern technology.

This project transforms children's literature into hands-on engineering challenges using LEGO education kits and reusable materials.

Third-grade students will apply the engineering design process to solve real-world problems—from building wind-powered devices to designing water filtration systems—bridging literacy, STEM, and environmental stewardship.

This project creates a student-run mobile drink cart where students with disabilities will apply functional academics, communication, and life skills for real school customers. 

Using visual recipes, structured tasks, and eco-friendly reusable cups, students will take orders, measure ingredients, and deliver beverages—building independence, confidence, and meaningful community connections.

This innovative project combines spatial math, geometric algorithms, and abstract art, using Rubik's Cubes as a zero-waste medium to build large-scale pixelated mosaics. 

Through backward design, students collaborate to create custom mosaic displays focused on Virginia’s wildlife and environmental conservation—merging STEM problem-solving with artistic advocacy.

This project intentionally redesigns sixth-grade math classrooms using flexible, mobile desks and wobble chairs to support active, movement-based problem-solving. By seamlessly transitioning between individual work, partner tasks, and collaborative math stations, students increase mathematical discourse, critical thinking, and ownership of their learning.

This project equips kindergarten students and families with high-quality books, interactive literacy tools, and hands-on activities aligned with the Virginia Literacy Act. Building on last year's impressive 25% boost in end-of-year reading scores at Park Ridge, this program strengthens phonics, vocabulary, and comprehension while building a strong bridge between classroom learning and reading at home.

This screen-free initiative accelerates English language acquisition by connecting weekly culinary lessons directly to math, science, and a living farm-to-table garden. Second through fifth-grade English learners plant, tend, and harvest produce while mastering academic vocabulary, hands-on cooking, and sustainable food practices that bridge classroom learning with family engagement.

This project equips fourth and fifth-grade classrooms with mobile sustainable-tech lab carts featuring solar, wind, and environmental sensor kits. Through active hands-on inquiry, role-based "Science Talk" protocols, and a STEM Career Passport system, students master key science standards while exploring real-world green energy career pathways.

This project transforms the school's outdoor classroom with professional meteorological tools—including digital thermometers, barometers, and anemometers. Fourth-grade students and daily student "mini-meteorologists" collect real-time climate data, analyze localized weather patterns, and present live updates during morning announcements to build school-wide scientific literacy.

This project equips all kindergarten classrooms with reusable magnetic dry-erase boards to transform daily phonics, word-building, and handwriting practice into a tactile, low-anxiety learning experience. By replacing single-use practice sheets with multi-sensory magnetic surfaces, this initiative eliminates over 77,000 sheets of paper waste annually while giving teachers instant, real-time assessment capabilities.

This project expands the grade level's aeroponic growing system so every classroom has its own Tower Garden to explore water conservation and plant biology. Students cultivate vegetables from seed to harvest, dissect plant structures to analyze their functions, and celebrate their learning with a farm-to-table classroom feast.

This initiative brings a custom book vending machine to Kate Waller Barrett Elementary, transforming book access into a celebrated school-wide event. Earned through literacy challenges and positive reading milestones, vending tokens allow students across all grade levels to select and keep high-interest books for their home libraries—fostering book ownership, student choice, and a vibrant culture of reading.

This peer-to-peer suicide prevention and mental wellness initiative empowers students, nominated directly by their peers, to serve as compassionate listeners and bridges to trusted adults. Through structured training, stigma-reduction campaigns, and student leadership, Hope Squad creates a self-sustaining school culture rooted in kindness, inclusion, and early mental health support.

This school-wide initiative places reusable, erasable Wipebook flipcharts in every classroom campus-wide. By replacing disposable paper with portable collaborative surfaces, students across all subject areas engage in active problem-solving, gallery walks, and concept mapping, giving teachers instant real-time feedback to guide instruction.

This initiative transforms the school library into an inclusive Kinesthetic Learning Hub using stationary bike desks with integrated workspaces. By blending low-intensity movement with independent reading and research, students boost focus, reading comprehension, and self-regulation while tracking human-powered energy metrics to gain hands-on lessons in sustainability.

This initiative brings the research-based Hope Squad suicide prevention and mental wellness framework to Brooke Point High School. Nominated by their peers, student members train bi-monthly to recognize signs of distress, practice active empathy, and connect struggling classmates to trusted adults, while leading school-wide wellness campaigns that foster lasting connection and care.

This initiative brings hands-on STEAM innovation directly into every K–5 classroom using mobile, ready-to-use makerspace carts. Aligned with Virginia Science SOLs and sustainability principles, each grade level receives dedicated Eco-Innovation Bins that combine literacy read-alouds with engineering design challenges—eliminating preparation barriers for teachers while building early problem-solving skills across the entire school.

This initiative brings high-level, strategic board games into high school classrooms through a centralized lending library and teacher-led workshops. By analyzing game mechanics, resource allocation, and systems-thinking—especially around environmental science and sustainability—teachers engage students in immersive, hands-on problem-solving that builds vital communication, logic, and metacognitive skills.

This initiative transforms the school’s Makerspace Lab into a centralized library of reusable, SOL-aligned STEM resources for students in kindergarten through fifth grade. Featuring renewable-energy kits, coding tools, environmental sensors, and robotics equipment, this shared hub provides equitable, hands-on engineering challenges while eliminating single-use materials and maximizing instructional impact across all grade levels.

This cross-school initiative provides a transformative Washington, D.C. capstone experience for Jobs for Virginia Graduates student leaders facing significant life barriers. Connecting students across three school sites, the project combines Capitol Hill visits and historic tours with environmental policy research, empowering students to return as peer ambassadors who lead sustainability action projects in their home schools.

This collaborative art initiative unites Margaret Brent Elementary Bobcats and Mountain View High Wildcats along their shared pedestrian pathway. Using 100% recyclable, circular-economy fence pop-ins, art students and teachers from both schools will design and install a vibrant, uplifting message—fostering community pride, inter-school mentorship, and a hands-on lesson in sustainable materials.

This multi-school initiative equips Librarians and Innovative Learning Coaches across five schools with mobile podcasting hubs and digital media training. Utilizing the NPR Student Podcast Challenge framework, students research local history, conduct interviews, and broadcast original audio stories—replacing single-use poster board projects with reusable digital publishing that amplifies student voice.

This division-wide initiative empowers identified gifted art students across all eight middle schools to design, build, and maintain miniature public art galleries in their school libraries. Operating on a "take a piece, leave a piece" model, these galleries make visual art accessible to every student and staff member, turning everyday creation into an ongoing, self-sustaining community exchange.