Oak Mountain Elementary School serve day

Members of the Oak Mountain community are invited out to Oak Mountain Elementary School for a serve day July 15. Held every year, the serve day is an opportunity to clean up in and around the school, from laying pinestraw and cleaning windows to collecting sticks and fixing the pond in the school’s patio area.

A large focus of this year’s serve day will be cleaning up and constructing OMES’s new STEM room, said Brad Mize, a parent volunteer and the president of Delta Alpha Deltas, a volunteer group of dads at OMES.

After applying for a grant from Lowe’s Toolbox for Education, OMES was granted $78,159. This money will go toward the new STEM room, which will include multiple learning tools including a kitchen, interactive Promethean board, robotics, tablets, computers, legos and otherSTEM items.