Curricular Area: STEM
Grant Focus: Equipment
Schools: WPSIS, Henkle Middle School
Items Purchased: Adruino Starter Kits
This grant provides Adruino starter kits to expand the the learning opportunities within the district’s coding curriculum. The Adruino kits will introduce both coding and electronics through fun, engaging, and hands-on projects. The tech class will use the starter kits to teach students about current, voltage, and digital logic as well as fundamentals of programming.
Read MoreCurricular Area: STEM
Grant Focus: Equipment
Schools: Henkle Middle School
Items Purchased: Whiteboards, Digital Temperature Probes, Hot Plates, Ebooks
This grant provides more equipment to create hands-on experiences for the students to engage with the content they are learning at a deeper level.
Read MoreCurricular Area: STEM, Design
Grant Focus: Equipment
Schools: Henkle Middle School, W & P Stevenson Intermediate School
Items Purchased: 2 3D printers, filament
This project combines education goals around design and technology, using 3D printers to bring the digital world into the physical world. 3D printing offers students the ability to experience their projects from the model stage to actual creation of the model. This creates both excitement and a better understanding of the design process as they gain hands-on experience it from conception to creation, learning about and utilizing technology along the way.
Read MoreCurricular Area: Career & Technical Education
Grant Focus: Equipment
Schools: Columbia High School, Henkle Middle School, W & P Stevenson Intermediate School
Items Purchased: Lasercutter
Our objective is to make a laser cutter available to a large sector of students who do not currently have access to a machine which is commonly found in manufacturing, engineering, commercial art, and secondary education. Students will use the laser cutter to gain hands-on experience in prototyping for speci?ic engineering projects. This machine revolutionizes the way traditional subjects like art and woodworking are taught, giving students the opportunity to develop skills in digital design and fabrication which will open new career paths for them.
Read MoreCurricular Area: Arts, Engineering
Grant Focus: Equipment
Schools: Whitson Elementary School
Items Purchased: Equipment to build and paint 10 picnic tables for outdoor education.
For this grant, we are proposing to create a community based project to build picnic tables for Whitson. The goal of this project is to help students recognize STEAM as a human endeavor as well as build a foundation of connection with our students and the larger community that we live in through science, engineering, and art.
Read MoreCurricular Area: STEM
Grant Focus: Technology; COVID Support
Schools: Henkle Middle School, Columbia High School
Items Purchased: Kami App licenses
The Columbia High School Technology Team recommended Kami App licenses for CHS and HMS math classes to provide educators with better tools for distance learning .
2020 COVID Response Grant
Read MoreCurricular Area: Career & Technical Education
Grant Focus: Equipment
Schools: Henkle Middle School
Items Purchased: Sewing machines
Curricular Area: Across Subjects
Grant Focus: Equipment, COVID Response
Schools: Whitson Elementary School
Items Purchased: Individual educational play kits
2020 COVID Response Grant
Teachers used this grant to purchase durable products and supplies to create individual kits for 2nd grade students so they could play independently while still social distancing. The products selected have long term benefit as well.
Read MoreCurricular Area: STEM
Grant Focus: Technology; Equipment; COVID Support
Schools: Henkle Middle School
Items Purchased: Math manipulative and Kami App Licenses
2020 COVID Response Grant
Read MoreCurricular Area: STEM
Grant Focus: Equipment
Schools: Columbia High School
Items Purchased: 90 TI-84 CE Graphing Calculators plus Chargers
This grant outfits high school math classes with TI-84 CE graphing calculators with a primary goal of building confidence and promoting engagement among students.
Read MoreCurricular Area: STEM
Grant Focus: Equipment
Schools: Henkle Middle School; Wallace & Priscilla Stevenson Intermediate School
Items Purchased: Beehives and beekeeping supplies
This grant provides for the installation of an observation beehive at Henkle Middle School and at Wallace & Priscilla Stevenson Intermediate School. This hives will be part of the project based learning curriculum, helping students understand why honeybees are an important part of the agriculture in both local and national production.
Read MoreCurricular Area: STEM, Career & Technical Education
Grant Focus: Equipment
Schools: Columbia High School
Items Purchased: Plans and parts for building the ATEV
For the past six years CHS students have been designing and fabricating electric cars to compete in over 50 Electrathon America races. With this grant, students will pilot an innovative and highly motivational twist to this event by building the first of its kind all-terrain, full suspension electric vehicle: the Piranha III!.
Read MoreCurricular Area: STEM
Grant Focus: Equipment
Schools: Henkle Middle School
Items Purchased: 28 Chromebooks
Chromebooks purchased with this grant will be integrated into the 7th grade science classroom to “bring scientific modeling, simulations, presentations and publications into our classroom on a regular basis, to give life and form to the abstract concepts we are studying”.
Read MoreCurricular Area: Across Subjects, STEM
Grant Focus: Professional Development
Schools: Whitson Elementary
Items Purchased: Coaching on the use of technology in the classroom
The focus of this grant is to provide teachers with the training needed to implement and integrate technology, using Chromebooks, in the classroom in all content areas.
Read MoreCurricular Area: STEM
Grant Focus: Equipment
Schools: Whitson Elementary School, Wally & Priscilla Stevenson Intermediate School, Henkle Middle School
Items Purchased: Workshop Sets of littleBits
Using littleBits, students prototype and build endless engineered inventions, exercising their logical and critical thinking skills while learning about electronics.
Read MoreCurricular Area: STEM; Career & Technical Education
Grant Focus: Equipment; Curriculum
Schools: Columbia High School
Items Purchased: 10 Quadcopter kits; technology and flight lessons, curriculum development
This grant funds a nine-week unit on unmanned aerial vehicles (or "drones") to be implemented in the introductory robotics class at CHS.
Curricular Area: STEM
Grant Focus: Curriculum
Schools: W&P Stevenson Intermediate
Items Purchased: Engineering is Elementary curriculum (3 units for 4 classrooms); professional development
This grant is aimed at promoting high-quality and rigorous instruction to integrate engineering concepts into math and science lessons through hands-on learning.
Read MoreCurricular Area: STEM; Career & Technical Education
Grant Focus: Equipment; Curriculum
Schools: Columbia High School
Curricular Area: STEM
Grant Focus: Professional Development
Schools: W&P Stevenson Intermediate
