Falls City Public Schools have been notified that they are one of two schools in Nebraska to receive a $25,000 America’s Farmers Grow Rural Education grant from the Monsanto Fund.

The 2013 project, titled “Technology Enhances Agriculture, Math and Science” (TEAMS), will use iPads in elementary classrooms to provide an enriched curriculum of agriculture-based lessons. Using the tablet computers to research, calculate, measure, photograph, journal, and create projects, all elementary students will learn through hands-on assignments that food items do not come from the grocery store – they come from America’s farmers.

Falls City High School also received a 2012 America’s Farmers Grow Rural Education grant from the Monsanto Fund. That successful $25,000 grant provided iPads and GPS’s in math classrooms at FCHS.

The Farmers Grow Rural Education program helps farmers positively impact their communities and support local school districts. In order to be eligible for the grant, Falls City Public Schools had to be nominated by local farmers. These nominations were one of the criteria in the selection process. FCPS would like to thank the following farmers/land owners for nominating them: