Curricular Area: STEM
Grant Focus: Technology
Schools: Columbia High School
This grant is for the purchase of 10 new laptop computers to replace aged-out computers. Computers are needed in the woodshop to teach modern skills students are likely to need in today’s construction and manufacturing industries.
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Grant Focus: Equipment
Schools: Columbia High School
The objective of the Columbia High School Tiny House Project is to give students the opportunity to engage in real-life, hands-on construction experiences. Throughout the tiny house construction students will gain valuable insight and experience with wood structural framing, plan reading, insulation, door and window installation, roofing, siding and interior finish carpentry.
Read MoreCurricular Area: Arts
Grant Focus: Equipment, Technology
Schools: Columbia High School, Henkle Middle School
This grant provides new mirrorless cameras for the yearbook and photography programs at both CHS and HMS. Mirrorless cameras have become the industry-standard for many professional photographers. This grant also funds equipment to modify old technology so that the schools can utilize existing lenses with the new mirrorless cameras.
Read MoreCurricular Area: STEM
Grant Focus: Technology
Schools: Columbia High School
Access to a graphing calculator in math class is important to high school students because it enhances their understanding of complex concepts and supports problem-solving skills. Graphing calculators allow students to visualize mathematical functions, such as plotting graphs of equations, which can make abstract ideas more concrete. They also enable quicker computations for complex problems, giving students more time to focus on understanding the underlying principles rather than getting bogged down by manual calculations.
Read MoreCurricular Area: Arts
Grant Focus: Equipment, Technology
Schools: Columbia High School
This unique project responded to a request directly from the high school class of 2028 to purchase a Glowforge laser cutter (and filter that allows for more flexible use) to create items that could later be sold for fundraising.
Read MoreCurricular 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: 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: Across Subjects
Grant Focus: Technology; COVID Support
Schools: Wallace & Priscilla Stevenson Intermediate School, Henkle Middle School
Items Purchased: Classwork Zoom license
Classwork Zoom licenses were requested to provide educators with better tools for distance learning during COVID.
2020 COVID Response Grant
Read MoreCurricular Area: Across Subjects
Grant Focus: Technology; COVID Support
Schools: Columbia High School
Items Purchased: ThingLink Teacher license
ThingLink Teacher licenses were requested to provide educators with better tools for distance learning during COVID.
2020 COVID Response Grant
Read MoreCurricular Area: Across Subjects
Grant Focus: Technology; COVID Support
Schools: District-wide
Items Purchased: GimKit license
The Columbia High School Technology Team recommended a GimKit license district-wide to provide educators with better tools for distance learning during COVID.
2020 COVID Response Grant
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: Across Subjects
Grant Focus: Technology; COVID Support
Schools: District-wide
Items Purchased: PearDeck license
The Columbia High School Technology Team recommended a PearDeck license district-wide to provide educators with better tools for distance learning during COVID.
2020 COVID Response Grant
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: Across Subjects
Grant Focus: Experiences; Technology
Schools: Columbia High School
Items Purchased: a class set of 30 virtual reality goggles, 30 phones, and 1 “Guide” (teacher) tablet
Google has launched an educational experience called Google Expeditions—field trips that are teacher-lead through 360° virtual reality tours of over 1000 locations, colleges, and careers.
Read MoreCurricular Area: STEM; Career & Technical Education
Grant Focus: Equipment; Curriculum
Schools: Columbia High School
Curricular Area: Social Studies
Grant Focus: Technology
Schools: Henkle Middle School
Items Purchased: 30 Chromebooks; Chrome Management Software
Henkle 8th Grade Social Studies teachers submitted this grant for a class set of Chromebooks.
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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).
Read MoreCurricular 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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