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Highland View Academy STEM Program Receives Grant

Recently, the STEM department at Highland View Academy (Hagerstown, Md.) received a grant totaling $9,992 from the Toshiba America Foundation (TAF). These funds will go to support the Astronomy for All Project, a new STEM elective course created by Kenji Nomura, computer science, math teacher and IT Manager at Highland View Academy.
“When we went online during the spring semester, I started researching potential astronomy projects that we could conduct remotely with the students in our STEM program,” says Nomura. “The class is taught partially as a lecture and partially as night observation sessions with the equipment, we were able to obtain through the grant awarded by Toshiba. The class is designed to cover several cross-curricular topics surrounding astronomy.”