PHOTO RELEASE--Huntington Ingalls Industries Awards More Than $99,000 in STEM Grants to Gulf Coast Schools - Seite 2

East Central High School (Miss.): Students will learn advanced scientific applications for ceramics through designing, firing and glazing their own utilitarian ceramic piece. $4,913

East Central Middle School (Miss.): Funds will be used to purchase kits that allow students to experience planning, building and programming robots to perform specific tasks. $4,900

Environmental Studies Center (Ala.): After collecting and filtering water samples from various locations, students will design solutions for protection of natural resources and give a report on the impact those resources have on biodiversity, economic stability and human recreation. $4,199

Fairhope High School (Ala.): Funds will be utilized to set up an electronics/robotics lab. Students will learn about voltage and circuits and use skills acquired to construct a robot that will perform predetermined tasks. $4,964

Fairhope Intermediate School (Ala.): Students will use 3D watershed models to explore the environmental impacts of human activities on our coastal waterways. $3,676

Fairhope Intermediate School (Ala.): Students will design their own experiment surrounding the full life cycle of a butterfly. They will collect data and make conjectures as the life cycle of the butterfly occurs. $750

Gautier High School (Miss.): Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) students will register as hobbyists with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and use a drone to capture video footage and create maps and 3D models. $2,169

Harrison Central High School (Miss.): Students will use computer aided design software and everyday household materials to construct a bridge for presentation to a review board. $4,201

J. Larry Newton School (Ala.): Students will learn several coding methods using app-connected robots. $1,800

Jubilee BEST Robotics Program (Ala.): Students will engineer and build a functioning robot, write a business plan and build a tradeshow-style exhibit booth to enhance their knowledge of the manufacturing process. $5,000

Mary G. Montgomery High School (Ala.): Funds will be used to purchase equipment for the school’s biomedical program that will enable students to perform labs at a graduate college level. $5,000

McGill-Toolen Catholic High School (Ala.): Funds will be used to purchase DNA analyzation equipment to help students learn how scientists carry out molecular research. $4,995

Moss Point High School Career & Technical Education (Miss.): Students will be exposed to real-world medical scenarios through the use of a virtual simulation system that enhances knowledge of patient care. $4,990

Moss Point High School Career & Technical Education (Miss.): Engineering software will be used by students to design, build and race miniature cars propelled by carbon dioxide cartridges. $3,200 

North Bay Elementary School (Miss.): Small, powerful robots will enable students to create adventures, games and learn coding while beginning to understand algorithms. $1,259

Ocean Springs High School (Miss.): Students will build and launch model rockets using NASA’s design process and document each step, collecting data to further investigate the nature of rockets. $2,628

Ocean Springs Upper Elementary School (Miss.): Using a tablet and a bot, students will be introduced to coding and robotics. $4,960

Saint Mary Catholic School (Ala.): Students will complete a physics-based engineering project by designing a 3D model of a catapult and charting the launch of its projectiles. $1,285

Singing River Academy (Miss.): Virtual reality headsets will be used to revolutionize student learning through immersive technology. Students will build virtual field trips and experience a spatial representation of data. $3,999

St. Martin High School (Miss.): Students will earn a UAS license from the FAA. They will learn about, build and compete with drones. $4,999

St. Patrick Catholic High School (Miss.): Students will research and report on the benefits of composting by recording school cafeteria waste produced, tracking the composting process and observing food growth rates in composted soil. $5,000

West Wortham Elementary School (Miss.): Students will learn STEM-based principles about gravity and inertia and use critical thinking skills to build a simple machine. $1,500

Huntington Ingalls Industries is America’s largest military shipbuilding company and a provider of professional services to partners in government and industry. For more than a century, HII’s Newport News and Ingalls shipbuilding divisions in Virginia and Mississippi have built more ships in more ship classes than any other U.S. naval shipbuilder. HII’s Technical Solutions division provides a wide range of professional services through its Fleet Support, Mission Driven Innovative Solutions, Nuclear & Environmental, and Oil & Gas groups. Headquartered in Newport News, Virginia, HII employs more than 42,000 people operating both domestically and internationally. For more information, visit: