Meredith Stevens, Sami Tomshack, Haley Beckstrand, and Leah Ohme from Harvey Dunn Elementary received $1,630 for their project, “Life Skill Detectives.”

With the grant funds, they will purchase premade task box kits to be used in special education classrooms. In the application, they wrote, “The kits will focus on learning skills essential for a successful life at school and home. Skills practiced within the task boxes include personal hygiene, emergency contact identification, emotion identification, what to wear based on weather, community safety signs, good vs. bad choices, word associations, and many more. Each task box kit includes 16 different life skills activities and provide students with structured learning activities to expand their life skills and vocabulary both at home and during school.”