{"id":4167,"date":"2025-10-16T14:35:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T14:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/4167\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T14:35:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T14:35:12","slug":"4335-in-grants-awarded-to-9-bensalem-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/4167\/","title":{"rendered":"$4,335 In Grants Awarded To 9 Bensalem Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"

BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014 The Bensalem Education Foundation doled out nine grants totaling $4,335 at Tuesday night’s school board meeting.<\/p>\n

The foundation awards grants through an application process that occurs once each year in the spring. <\/p>\n

BEF is a 501(c)3 organization that relies on donations and supports the purpose of improving teaching and learning in Bensalem through innovative educational initiatives.<\/p>\n

These are the schools that got the grants:<\/p>\n

Belmont Hills Elementary: Character Strong ResourcesCornwells Elementary: Pottery ClubFaust Elementary: School-Wide Positive Behavior ProgramRush Elementary: Supporting Teacher TechnologyStruble Elementary: Playground Equipment Safe PlayValley Elementary: Flexible Seating for AllShafer Middle School: Brighter in Color PrinterSnyder Middle School: Brighter in Color PrinterBensalem High School: Motivational Word Art <\/p>\n

In other school board meeting news:<\/p>\n

Congratulations to the 57 Bensalem High School students recognized at last night’s school board meeting for qualifying to compete at this year\u2019s PA DECA state competition. <\/p>\n

Ten students are medalists, with six advancing to the International Competition, DECA ICDC, in Orlando, Florida. DECA is a business club that prepares emerging leaders and entrepreneurs in marketing, finance, hospitality, and management in high schools and colleges around the globe.<\/p>\n

The school board also recognized Team 5401: The Fightin’ Robotic Owls<\/a> for winning the FIRST Robotics Mid-Atlantic Competition Bensalem District Event IMPACT Award! Congratulations!<\/p>\n

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(Bensalem Township School District)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014 The Bensalem Education Foundation doled out nine grants totaling $4,335 at Tuesday night’s school…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194],"class_list":{"0":"post-4167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bensalem","8":"tag-bensalem","9":"tag-bensalem-headlines","10":"tag-bensalem-news","11":"tag-bensalem-township"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}