More than 100 Brooklyn schools and Kingsborough Community College have received $26 million in grants from Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams to enhance instruction in science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics — better known as STEAM. The grants were announced on Sept. 27 at IS 228 in Gravesend, Brooklyn. The event drew UFT officers, more than 200 principals, Chancellor Carmen Fariña, superintendents and elected officials. “We’ve had an after-school robotics program for about four years,” said IS 228 Chapter Leader James Eugenio. “We want to bring things to the next level, so we applied for the grant.” The school received $570,000 to build a state-of-the-art STEAM lab to help teach 3D printing, robotics and other engineering applications. Once completed, the lab at IS 228 will be used as part of the South Brooklyn Engineering Pipeline, a curriculum and teacher training partnership between K–12 schools and Kingsborough Community College. The South Brooklyn Engineering Pipeline collaborative also includes PS 188 in Coney Island, IS 291 in Gravesend and Rachel Carson HS for Coastal Studies in Coney Island. At PS 95, also in Gravesend, a $100,000 grant will enhance the school’s hands-on STEAM instruction, said Chapter Leader Georgia Nikoloudakis. First-grade teacher Dana Sivio, who teaches the STEAM cluster at PS 95 along with another teacher, wrote the grant proposal, Nikoloudakis said. “Our students will read different books on topics such as animals in their habitats. They will go on nature walks and explore questions such as ‘Are birds good engineers?’” Nikoloudakis said. After examining bird nests, students will construct their own nests — a perfect way to put the “A for Arts” in the STEAM equation, she said. The approach, the chapter leader noted, also addresses different types of learning: visual, tactile and auditory. “It really is amazing how this interdisciplinary grant affords all students a chance to learn,” Nikoloudakis said.