Borough President Adams Announces $50 Million Investment in STEAM Education for Brooklyn Schools
Last week, Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams announced an investment of more than $55 million in funds for STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) education in Brooklyn schools.
The funds represent more than half of Borough Hall’s capital budget for 2018 and a doubling of STEAM-focused spending since last year. The money will flow to 150 public, charter and private schools, from pre-k to higher education, throughout 40 neighborhoods in Brooklyn.
“A noted educator once said, ‘don’t tell me where your priorities are…show me where you spend your money and I’ll tell you what they are,’” said Borough President Adams in a statement.
“I am prioritizing the development of the next generation of young leaders in Brooklyn. This is about keeping Brooklyn’s kids at the forefront of technological change, innovation, and preparing them for challenges to come,” he said, locating hopes for Brooklyn’s future in its ability to compete in the “innovation economy.”
Here’s a breakdown of some of the spending in each neighborhood, by school, allocation amount and project:
| Bay Ridge | ||
| PS 229 Dyker School | $200,000 | Multipurpose room upgrade, auditorium and gym |
| Fort Hamilton High School | $1,000,000 | Synthetic field and track renovation |
| PS 170 The Ralph A. Fabrizio School | $348,000 | Mobile STEM labs |
| PS 185 Walter Kassenbrock | $150,000 | One Brooklyn Engineering Pipeline |
| PS/IS 104 The Fort Hamilton School | $275,000 | Technology upgrades |
| Bed-Stuy | ||
| Bedford Academy High School | $300,000 | Smart desks |
| Brighter Choice Community School | $50,000 | STEM robotics lab |
| Brooklyn Emerging Leaders Academy Charter School | $130,000 | STEM labs |
| Eagle Academy for Young Men II | $250,000 | Technology upgrades |
| Gotham Professional Arts Academy | $1,500,000 | STEM lab and green roof project |
| Madiba Prep Middle School | $610,000 | Madiba Lab of Innovation |
| Mott Hall IV | $133,000 | STEM lab |
| Nelson Mandela High School for Social Justice | $125,000 | STEM lab and fabrication lab |
| Park Place Community Middle School | $150,000 | One Brooklyn Engineering Pipeline infrastructure |
| PS 21 Crispus Attucks Elementary School | $300,000 | Robotics lab |
| PS 23 Carter G. Woodson | $375,000 | Full STEAM Ahead project |
| PS 3 The Bedford Village | $150,000 | One Brooklyn Engineering Pipeline infrastructure |
| PS 308 Clara Cardwell | $50,000 | STEM Cart |
| PS 309 The George E. Wibecan Preparatory Academy | $330,000 | Mobile STEM labs |
| PS 368 | $350,000 | Sensory room |
| PS 5 Dr. Ronald E. McNair Elementary School | $300,000 | PS 5 STEAM Academy |
| PS 59 William Floyd | $150,000 | STEAM infrastructure |
| PS/IS 137 The Rachel Jean Mitchell School | $280,000 | STEM lab |
| Bensonhurst | ||
| IS 96 Seth Low and Success Academy Bensonhurst | $1,000,000 | Play yard renovation |
| JHS 227 Edward B. Shallow | $200,000 | STEM Lab |
| PS 112 Lefferts Park | $200,000 | Classroom technology integration |
| PS 186 Dr. Irving A. Gladstone | $200,000 | Technology upgrades |
| PS 247 The New York City College Elementary School | $100,000 | STEM infrastructure upgrades |
| Boreum Hill | ||
| PS 369 Coy L. Cox School | $500,000 | Technology lab |
| Brooklyn Heights | ||
| PS 8 Robert Fulton | $166,000 | Technology upgrades |
| Borough Park | ||
| PS 164 Caesar Rodney | $200,000 | Classroom technology updates |
| PS 231 | $115,000 | Technology upgrades |
| West Brooklyn Community High School | $125,000 | STEM lab |
| Brownsville | ||
| Brooklyn Collegiate High SChool | $700,000 | STEM lab |
| Brownsville Collaborative Middle School | $2,075,000 | Urban rooftop garden and mobile science lab |
| IS 392 | $510,000 | STEM labs and laptop carts |
| PS 165 Ida Posner Elementary School | $400,000 | STEM lab |
| PS/IS 284 The Gregory Jocko Jackson School of Sports, Arts and Technology | $1,000,000 | STEM lab and techonolgy upgrades |
| Riverdale Avenue Community School | $150,000 | Laptop carts |
| Bushwick | ||
| Academy for Environmental Leadership | $1,000,000 | Science lab |
| EBC High School for Public Service Bushwick | $75,000 | STEM and special education technology infrastructure |
| JHS 162 The Willoughby School | $500,000 | STEM infrastructure |
| Math, Engineering and Science Academy high School | $50,000 | STEM and science labs |
| PS 274 Koscuisko | $150,000 | One Brooklyn Enginnering Pipeline infrastructure |
| Canarsie | ||
| PS 272 Curtis Estabrook | $150,000 | One Brooklyn Enginnering Pipeline infrastructure |
| PS 276 Louis Marshall | $150,000 | One Brooklyn Enginnering Pipeline infrastructure |
| Science and Medicine Middle School | $200,000 | Hospital teaching lab |
| Victory Collegiate High School | $60,000 | STEM infrastructure |
| Carroll Gardens | ||
| Cobble Hill School of American Studies | $205,000 | STEM and literacy labs |
| Digital Arts and Cinima Technology High School | $100,000 | Digital arts technology infrastructure |
| PS 146 The Brooklyn New School | $500,000 | Green roof |
| Clinton Hill | ||
| Benjamin Banneker Academy for Community Development | $530,000 | STEAM labs and techonolgy upgrades |
| Communtity Partnership Charter School | $100,000 | STEM initiative |
| Urban Assembly Unison School | $2,000,000 | Hydropnic greenhouse |
| Coney Island | ||
| Liberation Diploma Academy | $1,000,000 | Gym upgrade |
| PS 100 The Coney Island School | $450,000 | One Brooklyn Engineering Pipeline infrastructure |
| Crown Heights | ||
| Acorn Community High School | $45,000 | Computer lab |
| Brooklyn Academy of Science and the Environment | $200,000 | Laptop carts and technology upgrades |
| Pathways in Techonolgy Early College High School | $385,000 | Mobile STEM labs |
| PS 12 Dr. Jaqueline Peek-Davis School | $150,000 | STEM lab |
| PS 161 The Crown and Success Academy Crown Heights | $400,000 | Playground renovation |
| PS 161 The Crown | $550,000 | One Brooklyn Engineering Pipeline infrastructure |
| PS 191 Paul Robeson | $2,150,000 | Library upgrade and STEM science labs |
| PS 375 Jackie Robinson School | $250,000 | STEM infrastructure |
| PS 705 Brooklyn Arts and Science Elementary School | $100,000 | Science room and technology upgrades |
| Medgar Evers College | $1,000,000 | Differently-abled lab |
| Cypress Hills | ||
| Aspirations Diploma Plus High School | $250,000 | Schoolwide technology upgrade |
| IS 171 Abraham Lincoln | $300,000 | STEM lab |
| Multicultural High School | $445,000 | STEM infrastructure |
| PS 108 The Sal Abbracciamento School | $300,000 | STEAM infrastructure |
| PS 65 | $500,000 | Computer labs |
| PS 7 Abraham Lincoln | $400,000 | Security cameras |
| Dowtown Brooklyn | ||
| Science Skills Center high School | $100,000 | Library upgrade |
| DUMBO | ||
| Dock Street High School | $160,000 | Mobile pre-K STEM lab |
| Dyker Heights | ||
| PS 187 The Christa McAuliffe School | $400,000 | Technology upgrades |
| IS 201 Dyker Heights Intermediate School | $250,000 | Band room modernization |
| PS 176 The Ovington School | $200,000 | STEM maker labs |
| East Flatbush | ||
| Middle School of Marketing and Legal Studies | $100,000 | Upgrading STEM labs, classroom smart boards |
| New Heights Middle School | $272,000 | STEAM labs and media center |
| PS 268 Emma Lazarus | $500,000 | Mobile STEM labs |
| PS 91 The Albany Avenue School | $250,000 | Technology and auditorium upgrades |
| School for Human Rights | $300,000 | Computer project |
| PS 135 The Sheldon A. Brookner School | $150,000 | One Brooklyn Engineering Pipeline infrastructure |
| PS 208 Elsa Ebeling | $150,000 | One Brooklyn Engineering Pipeline infrastructure |
| PS 233 Langston Hughes | $150,000 | One Brooklyn Engineering Pipeline infrastructure |
| PS 235 Janice Marie Knight School | $150,000 | One Brooklyn Engineering Pipeline infrastructure |
| PS 244 Richard R. Green | $150,000 | One Brooklyn Engineering Pipeline infrastructure |
| PS 397 Foster-Laurie | $150,000 | One Brooklyn Engineering Pipeline infrastructure |
| PS 770 New American Academy | $150,000 | One Brooklyn Engineering Pipeline infrastructure |
| East New York | ||
| Liberty Avenue Middle School | $100,000 | STEM carts |
| MS 452 Frederick Douglass Academy VIII Middle School | $250,000 | Mobile wireless laptop carts and technology upgrades |
| Performing Arts and Technology High School | $54,000 | Smartboards |
| PS 13 Roberto Clemente | $500,000 | Technology upgrades |
| PS 159 Isaac Pitkin | $200,000 | Electronic classroom libraries |
| PS 53K | $200,000 | Multi-sensory room for special needs students with autism |
| PS 677 East New York Elementary School of Excellence | $300,000 | Technology classrooms |
| School of the Future Brooklyn | $300,000 | STEAM lab |
| East Williamsburg | ||
| PS 196 Ten Eyck School | $250,000 | Mobile STEM lab |
| Grand Street Campus | $1,500,000 | Athletic field renovation |
| Flatbush | ||
| Academy for College Preparation and Career Exploration | $315,000 | mobile STEM labs |
| Erasmus Hall Campus | $665,000 | Historic building weatherization |
| MS 246 Walt Whitman | $200,000 | Walt Whitman STEAM |
| PS 217 Colonel David Marcus School | $700,000 | Technology hardware and infrastructure upgrades |
| PS K315 | $75,000 | STEM carts and latops |
| PS 152 School of Science and Technology | $100,000 | Schoolyard upgrade |
| PS 315 The School of Performing Arts | $100,000 | Schoolyard upgrade |
| Midwood High School | $100,000 | Schoolyard upgrade |
| Flatlands | ||
| PS 119 Amersfort | $385,000 | One Brooklyn Engineering Pipeline infrastructure |
| Fort Greene | ||
| Brooklyn Technical High School | $750,000 | Forensic science STEM lab |
| Gerritsen Beach | ||
| PS 277 The Gerritsen Beach School | $150,000 | One Brooklyn Engineering Pipeline infrastructure |
| Gowanus | ||
| PS 32 The Samuel Mills Sprole School | $85,000 | Computer lab |
| Gravesend | ||
| Expeditionary Learning School for Community Leaders | $50,000 | Tech upgrade for collaborative learning |
| John Dewey High School | $300,000 | STEAM infrastructure |
| Kingsborough Early College School | $250,000 | Technology upgrades |
| Life Academy High School for Film and Music | $200,000 | Healthy life gardening hub |
| PS 101 The Verrazano School | $250,000 | STEM lab |
| PS 177 The Marlboro School | $300,000 | One Brooklyn Engineering Pipeline infrastructure |
| PS/IS 686 Brooklyn School of Inquiry | $2,500,000 | STEM lab and green roof |
| Kensington | ||
| PS 230 The Doris L. Cohen School | $314,000 | STEM lab |
| Manhattan Beach | ||
| Kingsborough Community College | $1,500,000 | Marina reconstruction |
| Leon M. Goldstein High School for the Sciences | $175,000 | One Brooklyn Engineering Pipeline infrastructure |
| PS 195 Manhattan Beach | $100,000 | Technology upgrades |
| Mapleton | ||
| PS 121 Nelson A. Rockefeller | $200,000 | Greenhouse |
| PS 48 Mapleton | $498,000 | Techonolgy upgrades |
| PS/IS 226 Alfred De B. Mason | $400,000 | STEM infrastructure |
| Marine Park | ||
| PS 207 Elizabeth G. Leary | $310,000 | STEM infrastructure |
| PS 222 Katherine R. Snyder | $150,000 | One Brooklyn Engineering Pipeline infrastructure |
| Midwood | ||
| IS 240 Andries Hudde | $150,000 | One Brooklyn Engineering Pipeline infrastructure |
| PS 197 The Kings Highway Academy | $285,000 | STEAM infrastructure |
| Mill Basin | ||
| Hebrew Language Academy | $500,000 | STEM infrastructure |
| Park Slope | ||
| MS 51 William Alexander | $150,000 | Classroom computers |
| PS 124 Silas B. Dutcher | $150,000 | STEM infrastructure |
| PS/MS 282 Park Slope | $75,000 | Library and technology center |
| Secondary School for Journalism | $250,000 | STEM lab |
| Red Hook | ||
| Summit Academy Charter School | $215,000 | STEAM labs and smart technology infrastructure |
| Sheephead Bay | ||
| IS 234 Arthur W. Cunningham | $202,000 | Multimedia studio |
| Origins High School | $167,000 | Hydroponics lab and urban sustainability center |
| PS 194 Raoul Wallenberg | $150,000 | One Brooklyn Engineering Pipeline infrastructure |
| PS 52 Sheepshead Bay | $280,000 | Portable STEM labs |
| Sunset Park | ||
| PS 503 The School of Discovery and Exploration | $150,000 | One Brooklyn Engineering Pipeline infrastructure |
| PS 516 Sunset Park Avenues Elementary School | $125,000 | STEAM lab |
| PS 971 The School of Math, Science and Healthy Living | $300,000 | Go Coding and Project Fitness initiative and technology upgrades |
| Sunset Park High School | $525,000 | High-tech library media center |
| Williamsburg | ||
| Beginning with Children Charter School 2 | $100,000 | STEM initiative |
| MS 126 John Ericsson | $375,000 | STEM infrastructure |
| PS 250 George H. Lindsay | $200,000 | STEM lab |
| PS 380 John Wayne Elementary School | $250,000 | STEM lab |
| PS 449 The Brooklyn Latin School | $500,000 | Smartboards and laptop carts |
| Windsor Terrace | ||
| Brooklyn College Academy | $350,000 | Smartboards and laptop carts |