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STEM teacher Jody McCarty receives a check with $2,000 in grant money on Wednesday, Dec. 12. Photo via WINK News. Creeping through the hallway and flooding this classroom, all to surprise Jody McCarty. McCarty is one of the five STEM teachers in Collier County, who got the surprise visit from Linda Sapakie, a local woman and her husband looking to give back. “I know teacher don’t make a lot, I know they spend their own money in the classroom,” Sapakie said. “I think that every little bit we donate helps them out.” The moment STEM teacher Jody McCarty learns she received the $2,000 in grant money on Wednesday, Dec. 12. Photo via WINK News. The $2,000 helps McCarty with a very special project. Hurricane Irma made landfall on Marco Island in 2017. McCarty said, a lot of her students were impacted by it. “Kids are going to brainstorm and put together some ideas of maybe an innovative structural change or improvement that they could make to help our building withstand hurricanes or floods,” McCarty said. The 5th graders plan to use a 3D printer from the grant money to make prototypes of their ideas. Then, they will test them in a weather simulator. “This is taking a very very traumatic, difficult, difficult experience last year with the hurricane and trying to help them process it and use their experience in a positive way,” Jody said. An experience McCarty said, she would not have been able to do without the grant.