Ravenna students win $100K grant to build a beehive of the future Ravenna High School was 1 of 5 schools across the country chosen for the grant and last updated 2020-12-31 17:45:29-05 RAVENNA, Mich. â Students at Ravenna High School are excited to soon begin the process of installing an automated beehive behind the school after winning a $100,000 grant from the US Department of Education. Students and Agri-science teacher Melanie Block pitched a project about creating and maintaining an automated beehive, that would allow students to both monitor and manipulate conditions within from a web application. âThere are multiple cameras, which essentially are like small GoPros, inside the hive, so that you can get different views of the hive from the inside," Teacher Melanie Block said Thursday.