Curricular Area: STEM
Grant Focus: Technology
Schools: Columbia High School
Curricular Area: Career and Technical Education
Grant Focus: Equipment
Schools: Columbia High School
Curricular Area: Arts
Grant Focus: Equipment, Technology
Schools: Columbia High School, Henkle Middle School
Curricular Area: STEM
Grant Focus: Technology
Schools: Columbia High School
Curricular Area: Arts
Grant Focus: Equipment, Technology
Schools: Columbia High School
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.
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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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