Corporate Landing Elementary School

Co-Directors: Joan Harwin and Joe Andreana

Team: Virginia Wilson, Lynda Gillikin, Anne James, Amy Fitzgerald

Amount: $952.00

Underwriter: Electronic Systems, Inc.

Description: Student teams will observe butterfly and ladybug metamorphosis from larval stage to adulthood, photograph stages, create a PowerPoint to document what they learned and save onto a CD to refer to later. Insects will be released with a school celebration.

Corporate Landing Elementary School

Co-Directors: Joan Harwin and Joe Andreana

Team: Lynda Gillikin, Sonyonna Brown, John Pohle, Anne James

Amount: $665.72

Underwriter: Electronic Systems, Inc.

Description: Corporate Landing Elementary School Third, fourth and fifth graders worked with Animal Jungle employees to set up aquariums in the school science lab, with a variety of fish to observe and collect data to maintain balance and create an optimum environment.

Cox High School

Director: Ginny O'Malley

Amount: $635.00

Underwriter: Norfolk Kiwanis Charities

Description: Ninth- and tenth-grade students will research water conservation and pollution issues in their environment, as well as throughout Virginia. They will then design a rain garden and present their findings through podcasts, digital story telling or PowerPoint presentations.

Corporate Landing Middle School

Director: Sherry Kelly

Team: Thomas Frohlich, Stephanie Riddell

Amount: $900.00

Underwriter: Beach Windows & Siding

Description: Seventh-grade "scientists" will test the Owl's Creek environment for raising oysters. They will test water salinity, dissolved oxygen levels, temperature, pH, algae, etc. and share data nationally using graphics and photos for PowerPoint presentations.

Bayside High School

Co-Directors: Christopher Henry and Clara Heyder

Team: Christopher Smead, Jessica Sallee

Amount: $4,978.42

Underwriter: McKenzie Construction Corp.

Description: High school students will use state-of-the-art handheld computers to conduct science experiments on the school campus and in the Chesapeake Bay and Elizabeth River watersheds with the help of science professionals and parents.