If you are not able to get ahold of PBS kids, for books, contact us.  We have a large donation of books from Marissa's Bookstore in Millcreek.  Thank you, Marissa's!!  

Noelle Converse with the Granite Curriculum Department and would love to come to your school to share the Parent-Read Aloud strategy.  They will model it for your families and then have them try it.  District Coaches can also come to your family nights to model specific literacy strategies. Contact us for more information!  

Many schools invite Waterford Upstart to their literacy nights to give helpful information about Pre-K literacy programs to do at home that make a big difference. 

They can come & bring activities for kids to create such as bookmarks or art projects. They are also happy to table an event to promote what they have going on a Lakeshore for families! 

I-Ready & our Math District Specialists can come to show parents how to access family resources in I-Ready! They can bring Plori if you have someone that can "be" Plori:). They have created an I-Ready presentation to show families how to access the weekly Family Letters, instructional videos, and games.   

The bring fun math games for families and candy for participants:). 

They bring building materials and help families build rockets and can also host a game show with fun math questions for families. 

They will bring a Saving Money or Making Money activity from their FUNDamentals Financial Literacy resource (education.americafirst.com) for students to complete to earn a SWAG item:). 

Mathnasium can come and host a whole math night at your school free of charge! Their goal is to help families have fun doing math together as a family! 

STEM Action worked with UVU to supply us a grant with Granite's own STEM Action Kits for families.  Click here to see what the kits contain. Contact us to learn how you can reserve them.  

The Westminster Chemistry Department has teamed up with Granite for family nights to provide fun and engaging STEM activities for families- slime-making, shrinky dinks, shaving cream art, firework demonstrations, Skittles chemical reaction activities and more!  The come and run the stations as well as provide their own student volunteers to help! Contact us to learn more.  

Clark Planetarium can come to your event and give an exciting speech on rockets or can run stations where they read STEM books and have kids make a craft they can take home.  They pretty much can do anything from making art with bubbles to doing a short chemistry experiment to find out how scientists would search for life on other planets. Contact us for more information. 

They will bring their abatement drone, different kinds of mosquitoes to look at in a petri dish, and then mosquito fish that eat mosquitos! 

Magna Mosquito offers fun, hands-on presentations for elementary classrooms. Students explore the mosquito lifecycle and habitat, discover how mosquito-borne illnesses spread, and use microscopes to see each stage up close. They’ll also learn simple ways to protect themselves and reduce mosquito populations at home. This engaging presentation supports 3rd and 4th grade science standards and connects to broader insect studies. They will also come to family nights.

They could bring sodium alginate and talk about interactions of venoms in blood, they have an interactive hand to show how tendons in the hand work, snap circuits for electricity, paints and salad spinner to talk about forces, or a paper airplane challenge. 

Their science and tech departments will bring hands on experiments, a mobile, and impress students with a  fun magnet magic show.

Rio Tinto will bring interactive mining activities! Its's truly incredible! 

They can bring an energy bike and fun interactives to teach families about different energy forms. 

They provide coding activities for kids.

Discovery Gateway can come and bring awesome STEM Activities to your STEM Nights! They have brought materials for families to make coffee-filter butterflies & more! They can do things like flame test chemical reactions, cabbage color changing, button making, and more!  Contact us for more information.    

Jordan High Robotics Club- The will come and demonstrate robots. They have a partner who can come and bring lego robots. 

Ogden Nature Center can bring animal artifacts (skulls, feathers, pelts, etc.) to your STEM Nights! They also provide materials for a make a take craft (usually nature bookmarks). For $50 they can bring a live animal, like a snake or a tortoise. Contact us for more information.  

Our amazing district math specialists can come to your family events to teach BFF games or do an origami station. They can table your event or even do a presentation. They can customize anything you need:). Contact us for further information.  

Utah State University-America View: Empowering Earth Observation Education. They bring mapping floor puzzles, NASA Rover, and thermal cameras.

The Mill is awesome! They bring cool tech toys like merge cubes and virtual reality goggles. 

The Boy Scouts of America will bring hands on activities- pine wood derby cars, legos, Ooblek, baking soda poppers, egg drop. Middle School: paper towers, catapults, binary bracelets, film canister rockets, water bottle rockets, "send an egg to Mars", Star Party, spheros, straw light sabers/wands, paper circuits, May the 4th- Harry Potter Activities. High School- CO2 cards, build hot air balloons, Lego Spike Prime, Estes rockets, Mousetrap cars, build a marble maze

Environmental Department-They educate everyone on ways to improve Utah's air, land, and water. Non-idling campaign and interactive activities.

Granite's Science Specialist, can come to your STEM Night and do an observation station such as: meteorites, animal fur, and digital telescopes. She also can help students build catapults out of popsicle sticks!! She can send materials to your school to do the following: paper rockets, thread spool racers, catapults, and foil boats with pennies. 

The Living Planet Aquarium educates families on sea life and bring lives animals! 

SL County Library can come and bring their Maker-Space! They can do just about anything you ask but have been know to bring materials to make bookmarks or can do something as cool and random as paper airplanes:). The library can be very "STEM"y! 

USU provides engineering activities for different fields such as biological, civil, environmental, electrical, mechanical and aerospace. 

The physics department brings fun math games and the chemistry department provides kid-friendly experiments.

Are you looking for a magician for your STEM Night??  They charge $500 for an hour of magic. Contact us for more information.  He will come for free during the day for an assembly with kids!  

 They can also train families on a program called Milo & Me- teaching parents everyday conversations they can have with their kids about math doing everyday things. 

They have several physics demos they can do, some astronomy displays, and can bring telescopes for solar or night time viewing depending on the timing.  

(High School Girls)-They help high school girls get excited about Stem Careers!!

Need help with your sience fair Judging??!!  Jody Oostema from the U of U can help! She can give you tips or come and help herself! Contact us for more details.  

Summerhays music will come out and bring their "Musical Petting Zoo" where they bring different instruments for kids to try out!  

GTI can invite their students to come and talk about their programs they offer and what STEM opportnties  are avialable through them. 

Safe Tech Solutions is the most comprehensive tech safety program out there for k-12 and has an incredible family engagement piece. It is created by the founder of White Ribbon Week, Project Stand, and Fight the New Drug. 

Utah State Extension has a whole menu of parent classes they offer and can tailor it to any specific issues you may need to address with your families.  

Work with your PTA to do White Ribbon Week- we can help with the parent component!  

ICAC has presented on-line safety at many of our High Schools and Jr. Highs.  They do a good job of informing parents of the digital dangers and what they can do to safe-gurad their children.  

Have parents upload the RAISE parenting app for individualized modules for parents right where their children are at with digital safety.  They will learn the crucial conversations to be had with their children and how to set goals for their family with tech safety. 

Ben Horsely, the director of Granite Communications can come to your school to present current digitial safety problems and provide solutions for what parents can be doing at home to safegurd their kids.  

Valley Behavioral Health can come to your family nights to provide needed information on mental health services in the valley.  Contact us to learn more.  

Latino Behavioral Health Services will come and table your event to convey valuable informatoin on mental health services available to Latinos.  Contact information- 801-935-4447 or info@latinobehavioral.org  

The multi-cultural counseling center can come and table your event to give families valuable information about mental health solutions for those of another culture.   Contact us to learn more.  

SL Behavioral Health can provide services for mental health challenges.  They can come to your family events to provide information on their services.  Contact us to lear

Resource for students, parents and educators.  Safe Utah--available through an app, online or by phone--answers crisis calls and chats, about one's self or others, 24/7/365.  Their services are provided at no cost and are always confidential.  Counseling topics include: depression & anxiety; suicide prevention; drug & alcohol problems; self-harm; loss & grief; bullying & cyberbullying; relationship difficulties; any life challenge. 

SLCounty Youth Services offers preventions classes and couseling to youth AND parents.  Contact us to learn more!  

Paloma Olmedo-Gonzales can help you get any health resource at the University of Utah to attend your events!  Reach out to learn more.  

Joyce Kim at Health Choice Utah will help sponsor your event and provide any health information you may need.  Contact us to learn more.   

Utah Partners for Health is for anyone!  They provide access to primary healthcare services for medical, dental, behavioral health, and vision.  Contact us to learn more!  

Utah Dept. of health has many resources for families!  One is teaching them about bicycle safty, giving away helmets in the process.  Contact information: 385-377-4465 or  familyhealth.utah.gov.ccrs/ice

Dedicated to fighting poverty and its root causes in Utah.  They serve over 60,000 people annually through six core programs: Adult Education, Case Management & Housing, Head Start preschool, HEAT utility assistance, Nutrition, and Weatherization for homes. Contact Mary Salazar at mary.salazr@utahca.org or call 801-428-6860.  

Choose Gang Free is provided by Granite District.  They can come to any family event to table or speak to families about gang prevention.  Contact us for more information.  

The Granite Cafe' caters for VERY reasonably priced and offers many options for your family nights.  They will come and bring everything warm and stay with the food through your entire event!  Contact Stacy @ 385-646-5704 or safearnley@graniteschools.org.

The Jones Center has incredibly delcious and cheap dessert options for your family events! Not only that, they have other food options you can order and prepare.  Contact Jason Kerzner @ jkerzner@graniteschools.org.