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<\/p>\nLaGuardia Gateway Partners (LGP), the manager and developer of LaGuardia Airport\u2019s award-winning Terminal B, announced Queens Zoo as the recipient of the second annual B-INSPIRED STEM Grant in collaboration with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The $15,000 grant will support the institution\u2019s \u201cSTEM Starters,\u201d an early childhood science education program that brings bilingual, experiential STEM learning to PreK-3 students in Queens communities near the Queens Zoo.<\/p>\n
The funding will help expand the program to two additional PreK-3 schools in Corona, Queens, reaching more than 100 additional students through science-based classroom programming, teacher professional development workshops, and family STEM learning experiences at the Queens Zoo.<\/p>\n
LGP and the Port Authority commend the Queens Zoo for its commitment to making science and conservation accessible to local communities, inspiring the next generation of STEM professionals, and providing meaningful learning resources to children, families, and educators.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are thrilled to support Queens Zoo and its innovative STEM Starters program,\u201d said Suzette Noble, CEO of LaGuardia Gateway Partners. \u201cBy providing bilingual, hands-on science learning opportunities to young students in Queens, they are helping spark curiosity and build confidence in STEM from an early age. This program reflects exactly what the B-INSPIRED STEM Grant was created to achieve, expanding local access to meaningful educational experiences that inspire the next generation.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSince the transformation of LaGuardia Airport began nearly a decade ago, the Port Authority and our private partners, LaGuardia Gateway Partners and Delta Air Lines, have shared a commitment to provide educational opportunities in aviation and STEM for students in the surrounding communities,\u201d said Hersh Parekh, Deputy Chief of Intergovernmental Affairs at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. \u201cWe thank LaGuardia Gateway Partners for continuing to invest in our host communities with this second annual $15,000 grant to support the early childhood science education program at the Queens Zoo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSTEM Starters reflects our belief that science belongs to everyone \u2014 especially our youngest New Yorkers,\u201d said Karen Tingley, Vice President of Education at WCS. \u201cAt the Queens Zoo, we see every education program, every animal observation, and every question as a chance to deepen a child\u2019s connection to the natural world. We\u2019re proud to bring this program to Pre-K classrooms across Corona, Queens, where hands-on discovery lays the foundation for a lifetime of learning.\u201d<\/p>\n
Photo Courtesy of LaGuardia Gateway Partners<\/p>\n
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LaGuardia Gateway Partners (LGP) and Port Authority of NY and NJ (PANYNJ) present the B-INSPIRED STEM grant check to Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) at Queens Zoo. (L. to r.): \u00a0Hayden Cubas (LGP), Karen Tingley (WCS), Bill Calabrese (LGP), Suzette Noble (CEO, LGP), Frankie Molina (WCS), Tom Hurtubise (WCS), Mike Allen (Director, Queens Zoo, WCS), Hersh Parekh (PANYNJ), Raquel Moss (PANYNJ), and Tracy Sandford (LGP).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LaGuardia Gateway Partners (LGP), the manager and developer of LaGuardia Airport\u2019s award-winning Terminal B, announced Queens Zoo as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-263838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}