'Be the change for kids' award

Warwick Valley School District’s Partners In Education (PIE) program received the "Be the Change for Kids" Innovation Award at the University at Albany's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering last Thursday. The award comes with a $5,000 grant to the program, which will be used to enhance the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) component of the PIE curriculum, which will allow PIE teachers to offer students more opportunities for hands-on learning in these fields early on, and to foster the passion necessary to be successful in these and other career fields in the future. Students, teachers and school officials are pictured here accepting the award from the college and the New York State School Boards Association.