PVSD Foundation is proud to support projects around the district that enhance students’ educational opportunities. Learn more about each grant we’ve awarded and see the impact YOUR dollars are making.
2024-2025 School Year
Math Games!
Students at Schwenksville Elementary develop a sense of community and belonging by building their math skills through motivational math games. Read More.
Facility Dog
Ken, Middle School West‘s facility dog provides comfort, companionship, and joy to all West students and staff. Tell me more.
Sensory Bins
Schwenksville Elementary’s kindergarteners have an opportunity to develop hands-on skills by implementing sensory bins and tactile supplies. Tell me more.
Death, Loss, & Grief Professional Development
During a Death, Loss, and Grief Professional Development, staff gain insights and strategies to support students and colleagues who have experienced loss. Tell me more.
KidWind Challenge
KidWind Energy Challenge comes to Evergreen Elementary as 4th Graders seek opportunities to develop effective wind turbine designs. Tell me more.
Classroom Puzzle Center
First-graders at Schwenksville Elementary get a new way to collaborate, build a sense of belonging, and see success by solving puzzles together. Tell me more.
Chimes for a Responsive Classroom
Chimes for a Responsive Classroom will help get students’ attention efficiently and effectively as part of a building-wide initiative at Schwenksville Elementary. Show me more.
ChompSaw
ChompSaws, a hands-on learning tool ‘cuts’ out lost time, allowing more time for students to focus on collaborating, designing, and engineering at Schwenksville Elementary. Show me more.
2023-2024 School Year
PV Professional Learning
PV Professional Learning provided a Door Dash-esque service to PV teachers, allowing them to continue their education at their own pace and enhance education in their classroom. Read More.
Chladni Plate
Students at Middle School West use a Chladni Plate to see sound. Show me more.
Classroom Plants
Teachers at Schwenksville Elementary received Classroom Plants to bring some nature inside. Tell me more.
Unpack It
Unpack It provides kits to support Skippack Elementary School students facing challenging life events such as the death of a loved one, the loss of a pet, divorce or separation in the family, serious illnesses, moving, and so much more. Read More.
Anatomage Table
The Anatomage Table is a lifelike, interactive 3D anatomy visualization table that allows PV students to explore the human body (and various animals) in great detail. Tell me more.
Mini-Hydroponic Growing Systems: Native Plant Species
Evergreen Elementary School is cultivating native plants, with a particular focus on species conducive to riparian buffer zones along the Perkiomen Creek waterway. Read More.
Sensory Walls
A Sensory Wall was installed at Skippack Elementary School to help everyone at school refocus. Show me more.
2022-2023 School Year
Soft Start
A soft start would allow students to take a few minutes to explore their interests, find an activity they didn’t know they enjoyed, and, most importantly, connect with people they wouldn’t have interacted with otherwise. Read More.
Get Your Energy Out
Get Your Energy Out helps students channel their excess energy and anxiety through a productive outlet where they can stay in the classroom during a lesson. Read More.
Visual Art Library
The Visual Art Library at Schwenksville Elementary School, exposes students to literature in the art room through giving students another way of seeing art. Read More.
Bird Walk
The Bird Walk at Middle School West adds four GROD-O Birdhouses made from gourds, and each features a vibrantly painted bird and informational signage that includes the common and scientific names and information about the bird species. Read More.
2021-2022 School Year
Spanish Makerspace: Sugar Skulls
The Spanish Department at Perkiomen Valley High School brought the tradition of Dia de Muertos to students through the grant Spanish Makerspace. Read More.
Perk Up Pins
Perk Up Pins gave button machines to Perkiomen Valley High School to add a new vocational opportunity for low-incident special education students. Read More.
Limelight
In the 2022 season, the Robotics Club needed a limelight to build a robot that could shoot balls into a specific hub on the playing field. Read More.
Mega Chess Set
The Chess Club at PV High School hopes to encourage chess participation in the district, and promote the growth of learning skills of students in the process with the help of the Mega Chess Set. Read More.
Tinker Tank
The Schwenksville Elementary library has a Tinker Tank that allows students to explore, design, and create in a safe place for students to explore and be creative without feeling right or wrong. Read More.
Trout in the Classroom
Trout in the Classroom at Evergreen Elementary School provides students with hands-on, exciting experiences to foster awareness of cold water conservation through raising trout from eggs to fingerlings. Read More.
2020-2021 School Year
Disc Golf Course
In the fall of 2021, Middle School West added a 9-hole Disc Golf Course into their PE curriculum. Read More.
Viking Genius Bar
The Viking Genius Bar provides a student-powered helpdesk where students can gain real-world opportunities and pursue passion projects based around technology. Read More.
Calm Down Corners
Calm Down Corners were implemented in all classrooms at South Elementary School in the 2021-2022 school year. Read More.
Older Grants
Inspirational Quote Decals
Schwenksville Elementary School hopes to encourage kindness and promote a happy learning environment through inspirational quote decals. Read More.
Whiteboard Tables
PVSD Foundation granted two South Elementary School teachers with whiteboard tables in their classrooms to transform their classrooms into a collaborative classroom community with the help of whiteboard tables. Read More.