Curricular Area: Career and Technical Education
Grant Focus: Equipment
Schools: Columbia High School
To enhance the Electronics Technology course at CHS, we are acquiring twelve additional electronics training units (trainers). These units will supplement the twelve trainers already provided by CGCC. This ensures that every student enrolled in the course will have access to a trainer for 100% of their class time.
Read MoreCurricular Area: Career & Technical Education, Arts
Grant Focus: Equipment and Professional Development
Schools: Columbia High School, Henkle Middle School, W & P Stevenson Intermediate School
Items Purchased: GoPros, Subscriptions, Professional Development
Video has the ability to motivate, captivate, and inspire. This grant seeks to leverage the power of video production, story-telling, student motivation, and student leadership to create a cadre of students at Columbia High School who can not only find an authentic and personal voice to portray their learning, but who can also lead others to build their own skills and understanding across a variety of curriculum areas.
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: 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: Arts; Career & Technical Education
Grant Focus: Technology
Schools: Henkle Middle School, Columbia High School
Items Purchased: iPad Pro Kits and accessories
The aim of this grant is to facilitate a 7-12th Media Arts Pilot Program, with the long-term goal of a sustainable Career and Technical Education program in Film and Media Arts.
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; Career & Technical Education
Grant Focus: Equipment; Curriculum
Schools: Columbia High School
Curricular Area: STEM, Career & Technical Education
Grant Focus: Equipment
Schools: Columbia High School
Items Purchased: CNC Plasma Cutting Machine
Curricular Area: STEM; Career & Technical Education
Grant Focus: Equipment
Schools: Columbia High School
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Curricular Area: STEM; Career & Technical Education
Grant Focus: Equipment
Schools: Columbia High School
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