Most of the $14,112 from Year 1 (2003-2004) was spent on the following (some geared towards water quality and some geared towards outreach):

We started with a powerful enough computer to burn the kids' movies onto DVD's! This is a Titanium Powerbook (Tibook) G4 1.33 GHz with 2 GB RAM and an 80 GB hard drive capable of holding all four classes' movies. The Tibook also has a Super Drive to burn DVD's as well as CD's.

This was used to help film those documentary-style movies the kids made.

Blank CD's and DVD's to burn our movies and pictures.

Cases for the CD's and DVD's.

A CD printer to print our own labels on our CD's and DVD's. I also purchased five extra ink cartridges (black and color).

A projection device for the students to share what they learned with each other.

Class set of ponchos for rainy weather (do we get that in the Pacific Northwest?).

And of course, some waders to keep dry while in the creek.

A GPS to share our exact location with the world.

An incubator to test the water for the presence of fecal coliform bacteria.

Logger Pro software enough for all the computers in my classroom for kids to run data from our Vernier probes (purchased with earlier grants).

This lovely little program allows me to control all my students' computers, lock them and see what they are doing. Nice!

We also got a pair of binoculars, for on-site observations, and an external DVD burner (which I have yet to figure out how to get it to work with our Macs!).

The school got 400 MHz G4 eMacs for the students to make their movies and edit them, create their websites and conduct their research. We have 10 of these computers and each has 40 GB's of hard drive space so that each class can make and store their movies right on their own computer throughout the editing process.

The school also got us an interactive whiteboard for our presentations as well.