FAIRMONT — Fairmont High School is in the process of creating a coffee cart that special education students will use to sell coffee to teachers and staff during the week.
Kristin Tietje, a special education teacher at the high school, said they are funding the endeavor through a STEM grant. Tietje wrote the grant for $1,500. It was approved and the money was used to purchase two coffee brewers, three airpots, a cart and the coffee.
She explained that in order to receive the grant, her project had to do with science, technology, engineering or math.
“For my students, it has to do with math,” Tietje said. “They will be doing all of the accounting behind it. The staff will be ordering coffee through technology. They will be getting a Google form and ordering it online, which will be sent to a spreadsheet. My students will print out the spreadsheet and have all the coffee orders for the morning.”
She said students will then need to calculate how much coffee to make. They will…
