Shorewood School District raises $1 million for STEAM programs

After seven months of fundraising, the Shorewood School District now has an additional $1 million to invest in STEM and STEAM programs, which teaches science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics.

In April, an anonymous community foundation awarded the district a matching $500,000 grant to support STEM and STEAM programs. Ted Knight, the district’s chief advancement officer, was tasked with raising an additional $500,000 by the end of the year in order to keep the matching grant.

Knight went before the school board on Tuesday, Nov. 24 to report the district had met its goal a month before deadline. He said the fundraising effort was a “true community-wide team achievement” made up of 350 donations ranging from 20 cents to $50,000.

“This achievement shows Shorewood is a very special place, and the community is capable of great things,” Knight said.

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