SANDY — Blessed Sacrament Elementary and Middle School was awarded a $300 grant from the Utah Aerospace Education Foundation, and a $500 grant from the Wal-Mart Supercenter in South Jordan. The Utah Aerospace Education Foundation grant assisted the school in promoting education and awareness of aerospace and related sciences in first through eighth grades. Angela Serzen, the sixth grade science teacher, submitted a project titled "To the Moon and Beyond," which was an intensive hands-on unit. It consisted of a field trip to Thiokol Chemical Corporation in Box Elder County for middle school students to view a space shuttle solid rocket motor booster test. The sixth grade also constructed models of the solar system, took a field trip to Clark Planetarium, and hosted an Astronomy Fair and Star Party, attended by students and their families in June. The sixth grade also wrote a play and presented it to the school. Each student completed a project on a space-related subject. The unit was educational and a lot of fun. The Wal-Mart Supercenter Community grant will go toward the Blessed Sacrament School’s Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) program. D.A.R.E. has been part of the school’s curriculum for the past nine years. The classroom lessons teach the students how to resist peer pressure and live productive drug- and violence-free lives. Part of the curriculum involves building trust between a police officer and the students. Officer Jeff West has been the D.A.R.E. officer at Blessed Sacrament School for the past nine years. He has built a rapport with the students and has led them in invaluable weekly sessions on Stranger Danger.
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