Curricular Area: Arts
Grant Focus: Equipment, Technology
Schools: Columbia High School, Henkle Middle School
Curricular Area: Arts
Grant Focus: Equipment, Technology
Schools: Columbia High School
Curricular Area: English Language Arts
Grant Focus: Equipment
Schools: Whitson Elementary
Curricular Area: Across Subjects, Social Emotional Learning
Grant Focus: Equipment
Schools: WPSIS, Whitson Elementary
Items Purchased: Sensory Tools including wobble stools, wiggle cushions, noise cancelling headphones, and weighted lap pads, among others.
This grant provides tools that will help students with their emotional regulation, improve attention and focus, and help teachers promote different learning styles.
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Curricular 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.
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Curricular 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.
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Curricular 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.
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Curricular Area: Across Subjects
Grant Focus: Equipment, COVID Response
Schools: Whitson Elementary School
Items Purchased: Individual educational play kits
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.
2020 COVID Response Grant
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Curricular Area: STEM
Grant Focus: Technology; Equipment; COVID Support
Schools: Henkle Middle School
Items Purchased: Math manipulative and Kami App Licenses
2020 COVID Response Grant
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Curricular 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.
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Curricular Area: Positive social behavior
Grant Focus: Equipment
Schools: W&P Stevenson Intermediate, Henkle Middle School
Items Purchased: Projector, installation, and miscellaneous hardware
The Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports (PBIS) committee at WPSIS and HMS is tasked with leading powerful assemblies to teach and inspire the whole school community about respect, responsibility, and perseverance.
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Curricular 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: Arts
Grant Focus: Equipment
Schools: Henkle Middle School
Items Purchased: 6 Nikon D3300 DSLR Cameras, 1 Nikon 55-300mm f/4.5-5.6G ED VR AF-S DX Nikkor Zoom Lens, 2 Ipad Air 2 128G, iMovie app, 7 SD memory cards (32G), lens caps protectors, 6 camera bags, 2 pPad protective cases, 2 Nikon extra batteries, camera protection plans (3 years)
At the time the grant was submitted, there was one very old camera shared between the Tech Guru and the Yearbook elective classes (80 students annually).
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Curricular Area: STEM
Grant Focus: Technology; Equipment
Schools: Henkle Middle School
This grant was used to purchase interactive projectors to increase student engagement and math understanding.
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Curricular Area: STEM
Grant Focus: At-risk students; Technology; Curriculum
Schools: W&P Stevenson Intermediate; Henkle Middle School
Items Purchased:
Curricular Area: Across Subjects
Grant Focus: Technology
Schools: W&P Stevenson Intermediate
Items Purchased: Projectors
Curricular Area: STEM
Grant Focus: Equipment
Schools: Whitson Elementary School
Items Purchased: Sphero Robots