Huntington Ingalls Industries Awards More Than $99,000 in STEM Grants to Gulf Coast Schools
January 20 2021 - 10:30AM
Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (NYSE: HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding
division has awarded $99,890 in grants to 26 schools and
educational organizations in Mississippi and Alabama for science,
technology, engineering and math initiatives.
“The educators receiving these awards are innovators and strong
advocates for science, technology, engineering and math,” Ingalls
Shipbuilding President Brian Cuccias said. “Ingalls remains
committed to supporting programs that cultivate talent in these
important fields.”Ingalls has awarded more than $1.2 million for
local STEM-related educational projects over the past 13 years.
“Establishing an early awareness of and interest in STEM is
critical for our communities and our future workforce,” said Edmond
Hughes, Ingalls’ vice president of human resources and
administration. “We are pleased to have the opportunity to fund
these projects.” 2021 Ingalls Shipbuilding STEM grant
recipients:
- Bay Middle School (Bay St. Louis, Miss.):
Students will use a drone to complete various design and multimedia
assignments and gain hands-on experience with equipment that is
used in numerous diverse fields. $3,500
- Central Elementary School (Pascagoula, Miss.):
Students will participate in a weekly STEM challenge based on the
StoryBook STEM curriculum to expand vocabulary, connect to
mathematics and science, build on literacy skills and brainstorm
ideas. $3,600
- Dauphin Island Sea Lab (Dauphin Island, Ala.):
A remotely operated vehicles (ROV) loaner kit program will be
created for teachers so that ROVs can be checked out independently
or in conjunction with a ROV virtual class. $5,000
- D’Iberville High School (D’Iberville, Miss.):
Students will have the opportunity to learn about various careers
that use chemistry, and will each give a presentation on a
chemistry-related career path to draw interest from the rest of the
class. $2,251
- Gulfport High School (Gulfport, Miss.): 3D
printers will allow students to develop CAD models and 3D print
them while learning the engineering and design process. $4,798
- Lake Elementary School (Lake, Miss.): Through
the purchase of iPads and technology and engineering kits, special
education students will have the opportunity to express their
inquisitiveness about science, technology, engineering and math
while exploring how things are made. $4,127
- McGill-Toolen Catholic High School (Mobile,
Ala.): Students will draw models on paper and scan them
into a Glowforge 3D laser printer which can then cut the drawing
into cardboard, foam, wood, plastic and more. $4,990
- Mississippi Council on Economic Education (Jackson,
Miss.): The Stock Market Game is a virtual real-world math
teaching tool that will be used to enrich students’ math curriculum
by applying math in real world situations involving saving and
investing. $4,950
- Moss Point High School Career and Technical Education
Center (Moss Point, Miss.): Nursing Skills Slim Kit and
Intramuscular Injection Simulators will be used to help students
experience sensory impairments both from the patient and the health
care worker points of view in order to gain a sense of empathy and
sensitivity to the challenges sensory impairments have on daily
life. $5,000
- Ocean Springs Middle School (Ocean Springs,
Miss.): Students will be paired together to research the
importance of insulating pipes and think critically about how to
efficiently insulate a PVC puzzle. They will gain hands-on
experience learning directional cuts and logistics for fitting
insulation around various angles. $4,034
- Ocean Springs Upper Elementary School (Ocean Springs,
Miss.): Students will use robots that are responsive to
touch, obstacles, light, color and sound to compete in coding
challenges. $2,700
- Ocean Springs Upper Elementary School (Ocean Springs,
Miss.): Students will choose a house to create using their
engineering skills, and will test to see if it can withstand being
blown down. $1,567
- Ocean Springs Upper Elementary School (Ocean Springs,
Miss.): UNICEF Kid Power Bands will be utilized to empower
students to make local and global impacts while developing 21st
century skills like collaboration, problem solving and critical
thinking. $2,169
- Orange Grove Elementary School (Gulfport,
Miss.): A 3D printer and 3D pens will be used by students
to construct three-dimensional objects to satisfy at least four
science standards that require the use of an engineering design
process. $4,945
- Pecan Park Elementary School (Ocean Springs,
Miss.): Students will create suspension bridges,
airplanes, vehicles and follow blueprints utilizing STEM kits.
$3,831
- Popp’s Ferry Elementary School (Biloxi,
Miss.): Students will utilize hands-on learning of the
coding and programming process through the incorporation of Sphero
robots. $2,444
- St. Alphonsus Catholic Elementary School
(Ocean Springs, Miss.): Students will utilize
virtual headsets to create their own virtual reality expeditions
and share panoramas from around the world. $2,392
- St. Martin High School (Ocean Springs, Miss.):
A plasma CNC table and metal fabrication equipment will be utilized
to bridge the gap between students’ designs, and working physical
models. $4,432
- St. Martin Middle School (Ocean Springs,
Miss.): Students will work in teams and utilize a laser
cutter to build a box with joints that interlock without any type
of adhesive. $5,000
- St. Patrick Catholic High School (Biloxi,
Miss.): Students will learn computer-aided design, 3D
fabrication of set models and digital video production in a virtual
environment. $4,314
- Saint Mary Catholic School (Mobile, Ala.): A
greenhouse will be acquired and will serve as a tool for students
to perform new tasks in the areas of biology, chemistry and
physics. $5,000
- Treehouse Montessori School (Ocean Springs,
Miss.): Students will create a virtual tour and podcast
series focused on Mississippi’s natural history to share with other
middle and high school students through a network of resource
agencies and science educators. $3,417
- Vancleave Lower Elementary (Vancleave, Miss.):
Materials will be purchased to construct a STEM station that will
allow students to build different types of infrastructure such as
the Statue of Liberty, pyramids, barns, playgrounds, bridges and
different landforms. $531
- Vancleave Middle School (Vancleave, Miss.):
Students will have the opportunity to code using robots and an
application on an iPad to receive visual confirmation that their
lines of code are correct and functioning properly. $4,955
- Vancleave Middle School (Vancleave, Miss.):
Virtual reality headsets will allow students to explore the inside
of a cell, conduct virtual dissections, explore the planets and
look at ecosystems in the ocean. $4,943
- Vancleave Upper Elementary School (Vancleave,
Miss.): Students will be introduced to robotics and coding
to learn science technology, social studies and teamwork skills.
$5,000
About Huntington Ingalls Industries
Huntington Ingalls Industries is America’s largest military
shipbuilding company and a provider of professional services to
partners in government and industry. For more than a century, HII’s
Newport News and Ingalls shipbuilding divisions in Virginia and
Mississippi have built more ships in more ship classes than any
other U.S. naval shipbuilder. HII’s Technical Solutions division
supports national security missions around the globe with unmanned
systems, defense and federal solutions, and nuclear and
environmental services. Headquartered in Newport News, Virginia,
HII employs more than 42,000 people operating both domestically and
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