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What You Plant Today, You'll Harvest Tomorrow
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Amber Jones - AMCHS
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Agricultural science teachers will collaborate with each other to teach students the process of growing plants/vegetables/flowers from seed in a protected environment.
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$7,500
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Schultz Engineering - Joe & Julie Schultz
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Fly to Learn - A Drones-for-Education Project
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Trey Bevans -AMCHS
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CTE teachers will use drones to teach students computer maintenance and game design concepts through a fun and engaging medium.
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$2,489
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Oldham Goodwin Group / Greens Prairie Reserve
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Learning on Display
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Paula Downie - AMCHS
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Students will use projectors to share and display lab results. These displays will include the components of the Argument Driven Instruction whiteboard (Title, Claim, Graph, Analysis, and Justification). In a gallery walk fashion, students will rotate from group to group evaluating each other's work and providing valuable feedback.
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$2,445
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ANCO Insurance
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Graffiti Club
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Eden Fielder - AMCHS
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The purpose of the Graffiti club is to learn about the history of graffiti, learn graffiti techniques and styles, and develop graffiti techniques with practice. Our club will benefit the school by creating a safe space for artistic expression outside of the classroom and by creating banners to support school related activities and displaying graffiti in positive ways.
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$988
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VLK Architects, Inc.
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Spreading Joy with a Happy Cart
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Elizabeth Engelhardt - AMCHS
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When Hump Day comes around, we often need a little pick-me-up. My students are spreading joy by delivering free snacks to teachers on a Happy Cart.
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$705
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Geralyn & Mark Nolan
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Students Helping Students; Build a Computer Lab
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Michael Howard - AMCHS
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CTE teachers for Computer Maintenance, Networking, and Cyber Citizenship will collaborate to teach students to assemble computers, install their software, and deploy them at another CSISD school. These computers will outfit a whole computer lab which will then be utilized by an entire 7th and 8th grade campus.
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$13,947
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St. Joseph Health
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Getting my hands working AKA: Job and Life Skills in a Box
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CSISD Special Services - District Wide
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Students in specialized programs need to have a repetitive practice of job skills, which they can do with work tasks in a box. Hands-on Task Inc, provides ready-made work tasks that can be used over and over again.
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$24,180
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Van Stavern Small Animal Hospital
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Unlocking the Air Waves for Modern Live Streaming
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Stephen Green - Muliti Campus
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Students will use cutting edge broadcasting equipment to provide ultra high definition live streams of events and performances within their schools. With the purchase of industry-standard equipment, students will be exposed to modern industry standards and vastly increase the quality of the videos they produce. The benefits of this grant will directly affect high school campuses and viewers in the greater B/CS community.
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$15,000
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The Rife Law Firm
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Adding it up and subtracting it out through design manufacturing
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Trisha Jordan - Multi Campus
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Engineering teachers will collaborate to teach students how to create 3d models and then manufacture their design by either 3d printing (additive) or milling with CNC routing machine (subtractive).
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$9,885
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VLK Architects, Inc.
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Pepping up Partner PE
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Randi Daniel - Multi Campus
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Students with moderate to severe special needs will enhance participation in their Partner PE classes using standard and adapted equipment
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$11,307
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Brazos Spine
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Find Your Light: Taking Theatrical Lighting Outdoors
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Beth Creel - CSHS
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Theatre students will explore outdoor and event lighitng through a portable, battery operated lighting system capable of providing customized and dynamic lighting looks for multiple campus groups.
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$7,548
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Schaefer Custom Homes
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"What Am I Even Looking At, Bro?"
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Jay Summers - CSHS
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Forensic Science teachers will collaborate to enhance student learning and understanding of trace evidence found at crime scenes using different magnification sources
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$7,448
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Brazos Valley Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
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Instructional Technology to Enhance Student Engagement and Creativity
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Clinton Rahn - CSHS
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There is a need to diversify the ways students can express themselves as they learn material. We want to improve student performance, and technology can help them accomplish this aim. Technology provides students with easy-to-access information, accelerated learning, and fun opportunities to practice what they learn. It enables students to explore new subjects and deepen their understanding of difficult concepts. The Advanced Geography Teachers wish to enable new avenues of creativity.
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$7,280
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Avinext
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Timers for Chess Club
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Christoffer Becho - CSHS
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Students in Chess Club will be able to use competitive-type timers during matches and practice. This will allow students to play chess games in a more rigorous and "official" chess environment.
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$160
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Delwyn Hocker
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CSISD Chemistry Road Show
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Jeremy Dockan - Multi Campus
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College Station High School AP Chemistry teacher and students will develop and complete demonstrations for South Knoll students in order to grow their excitement for science.
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$10,986
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C.C. Creations, Ltd.
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Mind and Body - Exercise for Success
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Krissy Wallace - CVHS
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Physical Education teacher will advocate the life long physical and mental benefits of physical activities during their Skill-Based Lifetime Activities class.
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$2,441
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Truist
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Aiming for Success
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Kimberly Rife - CVHS
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Students in need of professional photography equipment will learn how to shoot photographs for social media, commercial, and professional use.
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$1,859
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Fig-Mint Photography
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Drone Racing Club
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Matthew Bywater - AMCMS
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Students will be given an opportunity to learn about and compete in drone racing all the way up to a National competition.
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$885
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Pride Cleaners
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Engineering Production Lab
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Matthew Bywater - Mulit Campus
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We will utilize CNC (computer numerical control) machines in order to engage students in the Engineering Design Process and afford students experience and immediate feedback using technology that will bridge current learning to future technology use.
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$5,994
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Gladney Automotive Solutions
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Engineering our Future through Computer-Aided Drafting and Design
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Fey Hysmith
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This opportunity will allow middle school engineering students to move beyond pencil drawings and jerky mouse movements to demonstrate a knowledge of drafting, and to use industry standard visualization techniques and media to complete a series of drawings that can be published by various media.
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$2,481
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Amarillo National Bank
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Easy Peasy Otamatone Squeezy!
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Amanda Byrne - Cypress Grove
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Students in general music and orchestra will use this innovative instrument, an otomotone, to explore the electonic music realm. The otamatone will not only reinforce musical concepts in a fun way, but will also reinforce the techinque used to play other musical instruments both in general music and orchestra classes.
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$3,930
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James & Tommie Haverland
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Building the Village
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Jessica Norton - Cypress Grove
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The campus design team will implement a system that provides opportunities for students and staff to build relationships through fun activities that promote positive behavior, teamwork, and social-emotional wellbeing.
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$3,000
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Brazos Valley Orthodontics - Dr. Gary & Rachelle Gardner
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"Can You Hear Me Now?"
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Kendra Palasota - Cypress Grove
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PE teachers and other school wide administrators/teachers/PTO will use the microphone device/system so that sound in the gym is able to travel at a further distance and all students are able to hear through the entire area. A handheld megaphone is currently being used in the gym area and us teachers are facing different difficulties throughout the day which include the following: sound is too low, not all students are able to hear.
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$2,170
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Imagine Learning
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Laser Focused on STEAM
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Christine Grafe - Cypress Grove
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In an attempt to introduce art students to emerging technologies in art, this grant would add laser cutting and engraving to our arsenal of tools. This tool will allow us to add student designs and creations onto materials such as wood, metal, acrylic, and more.
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$1,898
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Kent Moore Cabinets
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This is How We Roll, This is How We Move
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Micaela Eagle - Cypress Grove
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Theatre classes will be able to transport class supplies to and from storage more efficiently. Students move supplies between the storage and classroom, as well as storage and the stage. They will also use these storage carts to learn how to organize props, etc. for a theatrical production.
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$1,137
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Herff Jones - Calvin Waida
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Icon Impact
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Allison Gilmore - Cypress Grove
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All campus teachers will be able to display depth and complexity icons magnets to enhance and differentiate every lesson.
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$1,080
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Merrill Lynch - Tim Johnson
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Construction Science Lab
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Matthew Herring - Cypress Grove
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This grant will develop a foundational Construction Science Lab where students will learn the importance of tool safety, tool identification, proper tool use, and implementation of construction knowledge by creating strategic projects from planning to build. The students will develop a profound understanding of how to properly use a tape measure, hammer, basic screw drivers, speed square, and a variety of power tools to build a project of their choosing.
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$951
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Stylecraft
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Fab Lab - A Maker Space Innovation Lab Phase 2
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Allison Gilmore - Cypress Grove
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We have a maker space area in our school that all teachers and students have access to. Students are enjoying Maker Space Mondays and Fab Lab Fridays so much that we are expanding our lab with more activities and resources. To accommodate these changes and the growth, we need more storage cabinets for all of our supplies.
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$636
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Caldwell Country Chevrolet
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Get on Board with Math
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Christi Findley - Oakwood
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Math teachers will incorporate board games into their independent practice time in their classroom to make learning more engaging along with providing enrichment for learners who need a challenge. The games will also be used before school to encourage turn-taking, team-work, and other Social and Emotional Learning.
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$2,613
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Jim & Linda Woods
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Reading Through Your Senses
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Maria Salles - Oakwood
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English Language Arts teachers, reading interventionists, special education teachers, and ESL teacher will engage students that display learning disabilities and or language barriers in multisensory reading by using headsets to utilize the multiple resources the district offers through Clever.
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$2,555
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James & Jill Faith
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Weed it and Reap! A STEM Garden Club
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Allison Dent - Oakwood
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Math and science teachers will guide students as they work collaboratively in the roles of scientists, engineers, and technicians to tackle garden-based design challenges requiring creativity, ingenuity, and STEM know-how.
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$999
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Jim & Linda Woods
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The Art of Conversation
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Michelle Prukop - Pecan Trail
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The ESL teachers will utilize headphones with microphones to enrich emergent bilingual language acquisition.
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$1,175
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SafeWay Driving
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Treats for the Mind: A Book Vending Machine with Literary Snacks
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Debbie Leland - Pecan Trail
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A book vending machine will be filled with a variety of books on different reading levels, and topics that will interest 5th and 6th grade students. Tokens will be given to students to choose a book to take home and keep for their home library. Some of the titles will have information that supports curriculum standards in math, science, social studies, art, music, and health/wellness as well as ELA.
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$9,389
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Engel & Volkers
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Health and PE Teacher Collaboration
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CSISD Elementary PE Teachers
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Funding the 99th Annual TAHPERD Convention hotel/travel fees for Elementary PE Teachers to help cast a vision for the future of CSISD Health and PE and experience the tremendous opportunities provided at this conference.
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$2,377
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St. Joseph Health
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An Apple A Day Helps Kids Grow Everyday
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Rita Fernandes - College Hills
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Help students reach their full potential by providing iPads to help them learn phonics and phonological skills to promote oral language development to become strong readers and writers.
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$2,568
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Century Square
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Literacy Linguists en español
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Elizabeth Vega - College Hills
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The Kindergarten Spanish teacher in dual language will use Spanish phonics and literacy apps on iPads to enhance and increase oral language growth, reading in Spanish, and vocabulary development for their students.
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$2,247
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First Financial Bank
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Cafe 600
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Magen Lanfear - College Hills
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Special Education teachers will collaborate with students to help students succeed in their reading, writing, and math literacy skills needed for the real world through selling coffee.
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$659
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Mark & Teresa Benden
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Using Numbers to Develop Our Minds
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Christina Moring - Creek View
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Teachers will be able to utilize the Developing Number Concept kits to create an engaging, screen-free alternative for math stations. This also makes it easier on the teacher because these kits are ready-to-use at a moments notice.
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$7,095
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Stylecraft
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Future World Changers
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Amy Toland - Creek View
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We are asking kids to become problem solvers and I want to give them the tools to create prototypes for solving these problems.
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$757
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The Rife Law Firm
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Playing with our Emotions!
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Allison Jones - Multi Campus
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In the Communication Academic and Social Learning (CASL) program, our students live in a world of many colors and variations of those colors. Our students grow with direct teaching social stories, and an opportunity to apply it! This grant would fund a variety of social skills games that teach our students how to interact with their peers and how to cope with frustrating situations in a fun way!
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$2,479
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Wilton's OfficeWorks
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Let's Play the STEAM Way! Supporting Innovation and Creativity in Early Childhood/SPED
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Riley Dickson - Forest Ridge
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Early Childhood and SPED teachers will collaborate to develop age and ability appropriate structures and activities that engage our young learners in opportunities of innovation and creativity. Through these meaningful hands-on STEAM experiences, children will develop positive perceptions and dispositions towards STEAM and prepare them for the 21st century.
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$6,291
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Jeremy Osborne
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Print, Produce, Publish
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Libby Louder - Forest Ridge
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Instructional Team Leaders will elevate our current campus-wide enrichment initiative, developed from our strategic design framework, centered on Create, through the development of a student publishing center focusing on the strategic design best practices of Problem-Solving, Creativity, Innovation, Goal Setting, Autonomy, and Entrepreneurship.
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$5,806
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Andrews Orthodontics
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Tenacious Technology; Teaching Coders of the World
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Kenia Bernal - Forest Ridge
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Students will colaborate with each other to create and generate computer codes that will work to move robots.
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$4,287
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Texas A&M University - Office of the President
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Inspiring Mozarts and Vivaldis of the 21st century
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Olena Stuart - Forest Ridge
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The students will learn the fundamentals of music composition and performance through sound exploration, pattern building, and teamwork by using electronic keyboards.
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$1,158
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Prosperity Bank
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Literacy Treats - Books for Book Vending Machines
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Elementary Librarians - Multi Campus
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The Literacy Treats project aims to improve reading and socio-emotional skills for elementary students. The project will promote literacy and good character for ~3,000 students at six elementary campuses. Literacy Treats instructs children in positive behavior and rewards good character by giving the student a token to select a book from a book vending machine.
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$4,990
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Conlee-Garrett Moving & Storage
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Full Immersion: Classroom Transformations to Foster Maximum Student Engagement
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Michelle Lindner - Greens Prairie
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Third grade teachers will transform their classrooms into a racetrack, campsite, spy room, construction zone, or sweet shop to engage students in their learning.
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$3,409
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Matt & Kim Ege
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Totally Cubular!
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Victoria Dean - Greens Prairie
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Elementary students will engage in critical thinking and analytical skills while challenging their minds to create Rubik's cube mosaics to share with the school community.
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$2,248
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Southern Smiles Dentistry
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Impact Language Ipads!
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Michelle Prukop - Greens Prairie
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ESL students will develop English language acquisition through the implementation of engaging hands of ipads.
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$963
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H-E-B
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Coffee Cart- Connecting our School Community
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Jessica McMurray - Greens Prairie
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Classroom teachers & students will team with Life Skills teachers & students to serve coffee to staff and guests in morning assembly. Including others is a skill that is fostered both in and outside the classroom. The creation of a coffee cart business that is managed and operated by Life Skills and general education students and teachers spotlights the necessity of inclusion.
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$957
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Culpepper Realty
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Snack on Books: Treats for Your Brain
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Heather Jankowski - Multi Campus
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A book vending machine filled with a variety of books will be placed in the heart of the school. Students will be able to earn tokens by practicing good social and academic skills to "buy" books from the machine. The books will become their forever books for their home libraries. This grant application is to purchase one machine for both campuses listed.
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$14,724
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Culpepper Realty
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Cracking the CODE on the COVID Reading Crisis
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Candy McGuire - Pebble Creek
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Reading Teachers on our campus will be empowered by the FlyLeaf Decodable Books to Remember series, which contains over 80 titles that are supplemented by evidence-based instructional materials that help students instantly become better readers. These books not only follow a systematic phonics structure that students so desperately need following the loss of instructional time during Covid, but they enable students to successfully apply phonics skills while enjoying meaningful reading experiences at school and home.
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$10,168
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H-E-B
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Learning in the Great Outdoors
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Sarah Dixon - Pebble Creek
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Where would you prefer to spend a school day- sitting at your desk under the fluorescent lights of a classroom or exploring science and math through gardens, reading in hammocks, or learning with your teacher and classmates in a non-traditional classroom while soaking in the sunshine? The answer is a no brainer for our teachers and students- LEARNING IN THE GREAT OUTDOORS!
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$7,604
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Element Retirement & Investment Consultants - Eric & Joey Wylie
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Learning Science the WRITE Way
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Heather Rasmussen - Pebble Creek
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Writing about science can seem daunting. However, it is important and critical that teachers set the foundation of learning for them to be successful in writing about science. Therefore, students need a print-rich environment and inquiry-based experiences.
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$7,443
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Dexter & Co. Insurance
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I Can Be a Scientist!
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Stephanie Arnold - River Bend
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This grant would provide materials that will give our students real hands-on science experiences. These stations will be used all year and will cover all of the 2nd grade science TEKS.
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$1,000
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Copy Corner
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Spotlighting the Senses for Self-Control
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Carrie Morgan - River Bend
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While our EC and Kinder students visit the Motor Lab to learn how to move in control, they also visit an Active Calming Center to learn that moving can help us feel in control. With this grant, we'll add practicing the Ground Technique where students focus their attention on their senses in order to calm anxiety and other big emotions. With routine practice, students will grow up experienced in a complete self-control toolbox.
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$402
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Britt Rice Electric, L.P.
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Give Us Wings so We Can Fly!
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Lisa Brister - Rock Prairie
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Our 1st-grade teachers would like to provide an engaging and hands-on opportunity for our students to learn about life cycles. In order to allow our students, an up-close view of the entire cycle of a chick and a frog, we would love to have incubators and warming trays for each of our six classrooms.
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$1,529
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In Memory of Jan Fechhelm
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artFULLY Booked
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Kellie Meza
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The Art Room's class library will be stocked with books related to the following themes: art history, community, diversity, elements of art, growth mindset, jobs in art, illustration awards, and principles of design.
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$965
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Brazos Spine
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Making Math Interactive and Engaging
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Mary Worley - Rock Prairie
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Using hands on materials for Special Education Math Resource setting to engage students in learning. These resources will allow the students who have special learning needs, attention disorders, and resist traditional mathematical practice and prefer hands on activities to learn in a fun and enjoyable setting.
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$522
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Van Stavern Small Animal Hospital
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I'll See You Around Town
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Angela Guy - South Knoll
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Students will apply their Social Studies learning of community helpers to create and act-out their own representations of our community and neighborhoods using various building blocks, wooden structures, and through imaginative play.
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$5,470
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Texas A&M University - Office of the Chancellor
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Student-Led Morning Announcements News Studio
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Leah Hoffpauir Stroud - Southwood Valley
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A news studio will be created for 4th grade students to record the morning announcements live for the entire campus to watch.
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$3,282
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Dr. Leonard & Nancy Berry
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Mobile MakerSpace
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Amanda Kim - Southwood Valley
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Second grade teachers will create a mobile MakerSpace- a cart of STEM bins for students to bring their ideas to life!
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$1,966
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Schultz Engineering - Joe & Julie Schultz
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Early Education Spring Family Cook-Off
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Alma Garcia - Central Office
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Family Advocates will host a 1st ever Family Cook-off event for CSISD Head Start and Pre-K families, centered on family bonding and father engagement. This event will teach families how to create low cost outdoor activities, the importance of routines and family bonding, and on Father inclusion. We aspire to create a meaningful experience that will inspire our incoming families to continue a positive connection with the community, schools, and most importantly their family.
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$3,133
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Britt Rice Electric, L.P.
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Move to Learn
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Melissa Crouch - Spring Creek
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Students will be able to increase their cognitive functioning skills during recess and appropriate break in a given day at school.
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$3,505
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Atmos Energy
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The EdTech Cohort
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Lauryn Fiechtner - District Wide
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Teachers will apply for the Edtech Cohort. Membership in the cohort includes 1:1 devices for the classroom, professional learning and coaching support for teachers.
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$25,023
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Caldwell Country Chevrolet
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