Date: March 2023
School: Riverside Elementary
Wish Delivered: Wiggle Gear
This wishlist will give Classroom sets of wiggle gear including wiggle stools, pads, bands and feet, as well as headphones. Teacher Laura Forsgren says, this award will. “Enhance the classroom environment, both academically and physically! Students are working hard all day, and I would love to provide them a more comfortable and active environment to learn. The wobble cushions and swivel chairs will help with that! Having bike pedals underneath a desk will keep students active while learning."Wish Amount: $800
Date: March 2023
School: Mary McPherson Elementary
Wish Delivered: Classroom Supplies
This wishlist will provide basic classroom Supplies as well as fun movement seating such as swivel chairs and underdesk bike pedals. Teacher Dusti Steiner says “Enhance the classroom environment, both academically and physically! Students are working hard all day, and I would love to provide them a more comfortable and active environment to learn. "
Wish Amount: $681.05
Date: March 2023
School: Washington Elementary
Wish Delivered: Future Scientists Supplies
This wishlist will provide a science classroom science setup, teacher Michelle L McNelley says
“ It’s Friday in room 5 as an excited group of rosy faced kindergarteners enter the classroom after a long recess. You can feel the excitement and anticipation in the air as children anxiously await to hear these four words…“Hurray for Mystery Science” (a loud classroom cheer). These four words kick off the next 40 minutes of scientific fun."
Wish Amount: $1303.97
Date: February 2023
School: Ririe Jr/Sr HighSchool
Wish Delivered: CPR Training Equipment
This wishlist will provide Basic Life Support training equipment including a CPR Training kit, CPR mask kits and replacement valves. Teacher Sue- Ellen Tomlinson says, “I will be incorporating the American Heart Association Basic Life Support certification into my curriculum and we need the equipment to practice and test with for the certifications.”
Wish Amount: $1882.70
Date: February 2023
School: Hamer Elementary School
Wish Delivered: Classroom Set-up
Teacher Andrea Hemmert says “These items will help me because I am a first year teaching. The teacher that was before me left a lot of old (and I mean from the 80's old) things that are not relevant to my students now. I would love to have all these items, especially the easel and the paper organizer the most because I need something to put my big books on, and the paper organizer will give my students a place to put their finished work in."
Wish Amount: $2,773.95
Date: February 2023
School: Pocatello Community Charter School
Wish Delivered: Literacy Skill Manipulatives
This wishlist will provide letter manipulatives for a kindergarten class. Teacher Courtney Lamb says “I am seeking resources to support literacy skills for the kindergarteners. The items I am requesting are all manipulatives that will aid in letter recognition and phonemic awareness. The letter manipulatives will help the kindergarteners develop their phonemic awareness.”
Wish Amount: $231.07
Date: February 2023
School: Rigby High School
Wish Delivered: Rocketry Supplies such as 3D Printers, filaments, toolkits, and more.
Teacher Jeremy Green says “Students in the rocketry class will be able to print parts for original design components of competition rockets. This will enable students to work through the design and engineering process to see how real engineers in aerospace handle and solve problems. Students in the geology classes will be able to print models of different geologic formations in order to make better comparisons between formations that are too far to be visited in person or are in locations that can't be visited. Students conducting physics experiments can use the printers to design different tools that will enable them to reduce human error in experiments.”
Wish Amount: $1410.75
Date: February 2023
School: Rigby High School
Wish Delivered: 2- MiniPCR® mini16 thermal cyclers for Hidee Beddes
Teacher Hidee Beddes says “We have been trying to incorporate more genetic engineering in our curriculum currently we only have one of these for 81 students. It makes it really hard to do labs with one and I usually end up taking it home and running them all night to get all the student samples completed for the next day. If we had 2 more machines we would be able to complete the labs within a class period and students would be able to use the technology and see the results they are getting.”
Wish Amount: $1680.00
