Gravette Upper Elementary receives Toolbox Education grant

March 20, 2019 at 12:59 p.m. | Updated March 19, 2019 at 3:09 a.m.

by STAFF REPORTS

SUBMITTED Kash May (front, left), Svea Stauffacher, Kyla Yust, Piper Batie, Ezekiel Griffis, Brady Qualls (back, left), Cameron Bedwell, Holden Jeffries, Teagen Muldoon and Parker Pittman pose for a photo on Feb. 26 with the new equipment purchased through a Lowe's Toolbox for Education grant received by Gravette Upper Elementary School.
SUBMITTED Kash May (front, left), Svea Stauffacher, Kyla Yust, Piper Batie, Ezekiel Griffis, Brady Qualls (back, left), Cameron Bedwell, Holden Jeffries, Teagen Muldoon and Parker Pittman pose for a photo on Feb. 26 with the new equipment purchased through a Lowe's Toolbox for Education grant received by Gravette Upper Elementary School.

GRAVETTE -- Gravette Upper Elementary School received a Lowe's Toolbox for Education Grant to assist students in putting on a news show.

The Lowe's Charitable and Educational Foundation awarded $2,185 to Gravette Upper Elementary for purchasing a teleprompter and camera for its student-led news show, Lion Pride News.

Gravette Upper Elementary is one of 587 schools across the United States to be awarded a Lowe's Toolbox for Education grant during its fall 2018 grant cycle for improvement projects.

Since its inception in 2005, Lowe's Toolbox for Education has provided more than $60 million in grants to more than 13,000 schools, benefiting more than 6 million schoolchildren. Grants are available to K-12 public schools in the United States for a wide range of improvement projects.

General News on 03/20/2019