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Monitors are "VITAL" to our Program!
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Kimberley Decker - AMCHS
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Health science teachers will utilize vital sign monitors to teach about human physiology and prepare them for clinical rotations in the community
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$7,479
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Schultz Engineering - Joe & Julie Schultz
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Making Impressions: Mixed Media Printmaking
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John Speck -AMCHS
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The Art and Culinary department will explore the creative and practical capabilities of the printmaking medium - creating monoprints, posters, t-shirts, aprons, and more
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$6,164
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Rainer & Tami Fink
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Bringing 3D Printing Technology to the Art Room and Life Skills Classroom!
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Lindsey Gough - AMCHS
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Art and Life Skills classrooms will collaborate to create sculpture tools for the art room as well as tools for adaptability in the Life Skills classroom.
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$3,991
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Jon & Tammy Mogford
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A Foundation for Focus: Active Seating for English, Reading, Social Studies & CASL
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Rachael Richmond - AMCHS
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This grant will equip students with active seating that provides their bodies with sensory input that helps them organize their nervous systems to promote learning.
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$3,750
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Wilton’s OfficeWorks
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Barn Births Broadcasting Cams!
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Hannah Lewandowski - AMCHS
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Students in the animal science pathway will be able to view & watch live farm animal births.
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$2,949
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Bruce & Tracy Sanders
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"Pen" for Your Thoughts
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Belinda Pruitt - AMCHS
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Math teachers will use apple pencils for students to write on the ipads during group activities. Teachers will be able to group students for fun games, interactive lessons, and engaging reviews
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$1,710
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Pride Cleaners
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Graffiti Club - Part II
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Eden Fielder - AMCHS
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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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$998
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Kimberly & Dan McAdams
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Putting a Magnet on Entrepreneurship for School Spirit
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Elizabeth Engelhardt -AMCHS
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Students in the LIFE Skills classroom will expand their business to include other products for their school spirit business.
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$952
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Herff Jones - Calvin Waida
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Race to STEM - A Competitive Drone Experience
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Trey Bevans - AMCHS/CSHS
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Drone and Robotics teachers will collaborate to teach students low voltage soldering, basic tool use, robotic operating skills, and FAA regulations for small unmanned aircraft.
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$14,948
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Caldwell Country Chevrolet
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STEM Drones - A Designed Delivery System
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Trey Bevans - AMCHS/CSHS
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Robotics and UAV teachers will teach students 3D additive design, aerial surveying and mapping, and FAA regulations on external loads and dropping objects.
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$2,493
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Century Square
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Students Helping Students; Build an AV Lab
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Michael Howard - AMCHS/WMS
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CTE teachers for Principles of IT, Computer Maintenance, Networking, and Practicum of IT 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 for PAAV and Engineering heavy coursework.
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$14,848
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Kent Moore Cabinets
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Human Air Hockey
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Matthew Bywater - AMCMS
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Students will use high power leaf blowers to create their OWN HOVERCRAFT!
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$2,205
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Schultz Engineering - Joe & Julie Schultz
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Soar Like an Eagle for the Best Views
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Matthew Bywater - All Middle Schools
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Students in PAE (Principles of Applied Engineering) and PAAV ( Principles of Arts, Audio/Video Technology) will colaborate using video drones to create hype video's for each campus.
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$14,985
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Conlee-Garrett Moving & Storage
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It's Your Birthday-- Read a Book!
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Michelle Smart - College Hills
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The purchase of a book vending machine that will be used to recognize students on their birthday. When it is their special day, they can select a book that will become part of their home library.
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$10,000
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The Rife Law Firm
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Early Education Outdoor Classroom
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Melissa Valladolid - College Hills
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Bringing the inside learning area, to the outside by creating an outdoor classroom including kitchen, easels, instrument wall, sand/dirt area, water table, writing station, blocks, library, garden, etc.
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$7,387
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First Financial Bank
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Echoing Emotional Regulation through Exploration
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Carrie Morgan - College Hills
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Equip students with emotional regulation through proactive practice using concrete items that scaffold techniques taught in CSISD's new curriculum, "Character Strong."
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$756
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Brazos Spine
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Operation UpGrade!
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Jay Summers - CSHS/AMCHS
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Teachers in the Law Enforcment program of study will receive much needed equipment in order to professionally and realistically conduct classroom lessons and demonstrate their proficiency in statewide competitions.
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$7,482
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Dr. Leonard & Nancy Berry
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Lights, Lenses, Action!
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Stephen Green - CSHS/AMCHS
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Utilizing emerging technology and high powered energy efficient lights and lenses, Audio/Video teachers and students will collaborate to teach students how to produce an industry standard film project covering every stage of production.
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$14,947
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VLK Architects, Inc.
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Investing in the Future: Using Technology to Enhance Economics and Personal Finance Education
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April Falco - CSHS
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This grant purchased 18 computers for economics/personal finance classes to be used to provide students with access to a variety of educational resources, including interactive simulations, online textbooks (Dave Ramsey), and economic data.
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$7,500
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Avinext
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Strengthening Our Grads
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Krystle Lopez - CSHS
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English 4 On-Level teachers will collaborate with students to teach them about their strengths using Gallup and CliftonStrengths in order to prepare them for their future careers and lives.
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$4,048
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Aggieland Properties
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Upping Our Print Shop Game
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Kimberly Munoz - CSHS
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Graphic Design students get hands-on experience in the printing process of large print jobs, such as banners and posters, to increase their "career-ready" skills.
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$2,971
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C.C. Creations, Ltd.
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Rolling In The Dough
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Kayla Poe - CSHS
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To teach Culinary Arts students enhanced baking and pastry skills that will help them grow their class business by using dough sheeters to produce a larger quantity of baked products in a shorter amount of time.
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$1,790
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Matt & Kim Ege
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Inspector Chem and the Lab Rats
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Jeremy Dockan - CSHS
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AP Chemistry teacher and students will develop and complete demonstrations for elementary students in order to grow their excitement for science.
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$7,115
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H-E-B
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Tech to Paycheck on STEAM
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Beth Sherry - CVHS
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Special education students will develop computer skills while exploring the world of careers, learning employability skills, and developing resumes and interactive portfolios in order to gain and maintain competitive employment in the community.
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$2,498
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Imagine Learning
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Healthy Habits for A Healthy, Happy Life
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Beth Sherry - CVHS
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Special education students will develop healthy habits to last a lifetime through engaging instruction and activities paired with exciting, motivating health-related challenges using fitness trackers throughout the school year.
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$1,612
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Baylor Scott & White Health
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Book Vending Machine
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Michelle Skow - Creek View
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A book vending machine will be filled with a variety of quality books. Each student will be given a token for his/her birthday and be able to "buy" a book of his/her choice. This book will become a treasured addition to his/her home library.
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$9,400
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Brazos Spine
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Engineering Future Minds
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Amy Toland - Creek View
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The enrichment specialist will use Lego Spike to teach STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) lessons.
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$1,600
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Amarillo National Bank
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Rigamajig
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Amber Edwards - Creek View
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Students will get to imagine, create, collaborate, and problem-solve in our STREAM Lab using rigamajigs! We are trying to develop creative thinkers and problem-solvers.
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$4,195
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Dexter & Co. Insurance
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Banana Soup
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Amy Toland - Creek View
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The "Banana Soup" program is packed with laughter, learning, and love. Students will be encouraged to practice their best character choices every day.
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$960
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C.C. Creations, Ltd.
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Energy Exertion
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Cameron Hines - Creek View
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Adaptive Behavior teachers and instructional assistances will teach students how to exert their energy in a healthy and safe manner when they are escalated.
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$673
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Conlee-Garrett Moving & Storage
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iCanMathFromAnywhere!
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Ashley Restivo - CSMS
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Math teachers will use Apple iPad and Apple Pencil to increase instruction and the classroom learning experience for all students.
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$2,469
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KCI Technologies
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The Corner Store, the Snacks of Teacher Life
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Moriah Krebs- Gasaway - CSMS
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The Special Education students on our campus will provide the pick me ups, such as snacks and sodas, that teachers need to get through the week. The students are learning social skills, and counting money, and communicating with adults.
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$640
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Kimberly & Dan McAdams
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Do You Know Me?
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Amanda Byrne - Cypress Grove
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As a campus collaboration with the community, we celebrate the many cultures represented within our campus community via a Culture Fest event and many mini-lessons throughout the year. At our Culture Fest event food, games, country informational booths and performances representative of these cultures help make it special.
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$2,716
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Brazos Valley Orthodontics - Dr. Gary & Rachelle Gardner
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We're In a Pickle!
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Stephanie Kubicek - Cypress Grove
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Pickleball is one of the fastest growing sports in the United States. We want to bring the excitement of a new sport to our students here in PE.
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$2,337
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Merrill Lynch - Tim Johnson
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Construction Science Lab II
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Matthew Herring - Cypress Grove
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Students will learn the importance of tool identification and safety. Students will plan, design, and build independent projects throughout the school year.
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$1,000
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SpawGlass Construction Corp.
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Upping our 3D Game
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Christine Grafe - Cypress Grove
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This grant will enable us to purchase a new and updated 3D printer for the art room. As we continue to explore 3D printing technology we have a continued need for 3D printers. This new version will allow us to explore larger printed items as well as new filament materials!
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$599
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Kent Moore Cabinets
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EdTech Cohort
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Lauryn Fiechtner - District-wide
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EdTech Cohort members from across the district will collaborate to build instructional capacity to ensure the purposeful and relevant use of educational technology, at all grade levels and content areas, is no longer the exception, but the rule.
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$25,035
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Van Stavern Small Animal Hospital
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CSISD Little Olympics
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Megan Symank - District-wide
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The Little Olympics is a community-connecting service event that promotes competition through track and field related activities for our elementary schools.
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$3,050
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St. Joseph Health
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The Best Classrooms Are Roofed By the Sky
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Britt Hoefs - Forest Ridge
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Early Childhood teachers in Pre-K, Head Start, and ECSE will provide an age and ability-appropriate outdoor classroom space for students to enhance and extend learning and well-being through targeted exploration, inquiry, and play.
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$7,359
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Brazos Valley Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
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Connecting STEAMaginations
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Andrea Prcin - Forest Ridge
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Fourth-grade and second-grade students will collaborate with their STEAM Buddies weekly to explore STEAM topics and select a project to present their findings at our STEAM Fair.
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$1,834
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Kristen & Duncan Maitland
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Animating Innovation: the Fusion of Stop Motion and Rube Goldberg Artistry
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Angie Sasse - Forest Ridge
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The Enrichment Specialist will guide students in creating a stopmotion video incorporating Rube Goldberg machine techniques. The videos will be part of the Stopmotion Expo where all 4th Grade Gifted students will enter a Stopmotion video of their own creation.
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$2,275
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Caldwell Country Chevrolet
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Earth Science Enrichment For All Ages
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Elizabeth Adams - Forest Ridge
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This grant will provide supplies for students in Head Start through Fourth Grade to explore earth science through engaging hands on learning STEAM opportunities.
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$1,055
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St. Joseph Health
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Read, Discuss, Repeat
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Heather Anz - Forest Ridge
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The 4th Grade ELA teachers would like to add new titles to our 4th grade historical fiction book club selections. This project would provide Texas themed novels, picture supported novels, and other new titles to help integrate Texas History, Social Studies, and ELA. These books would allow ALL students and reading levels to participate in book clubs.
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$765
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Culpepper Realty
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Vibrant Ventures with Versatiles and Lego
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Jana Wilson - Greens Prairie
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Teachers will empower students with opportunities for differentiated, independence-fostering stations for use during intervention and enrichment time in ELA and STEM.
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$9,379
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Sago Capital
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Fabulous Fiber Fun For Everyone!
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Lorie Suter - Greens Prairie
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Students will dive into the relm of fiber art through sewing, weaving, and crocheting to create works that will beautify our campus, both indoors and outdoors!
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$3,675
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Whiskey Charlie's
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Totally Cubular: UPLEVELED!
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Victoria Dean - Greens Prairie
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Students will collaborate to create unique mosaics and analyze using mathematical conventions, then share their creations with our community by engineering unique structures and displays.
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$2,496
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Charles Schwab - College Station
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Glow What You Know! Lighting Up Our Bright Ideas!
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Danielle Galow - Greens Prairie
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Third grade ELAR/SS teachers will create a cross-curricular room transformation and hands-on experience for students. This experience will take place as students concurrently discover the purpose of non-fiction text features in reading, learn about inventors such as Benjamin Franklin in social studies, and learn to research in writing . They will HIGHLIGHT their BRIGHT ideas as they use their research and non-fiction text features to display their new learning to others.
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$1,885
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David Gardner's Jewelers & Gemologists
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Robots R Us - An Exploration Into the Future
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Kathy Martin - Oakwood
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Students will learn to build and program "Spike", the newest edition of Lego robots.
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$9,860
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Stylecraft
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Logic Puzzles, Thinking Games and Brainteasers...Oh My!
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Christi Findley - Oakwood
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Math teachers will utilize these STEM challenging materials to enhance and enrich their classrooms and provide students with opportunities to practice their logic and problem solving skills through puzzles, games and brainteasers.
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$2,140
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Byron & Joanna Soules
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Converting Emotional Energy to Kinetic Energy
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Melinda Wiggins - Pebble Creek
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Students can get out emotional frustrations through physical energy
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$1,500
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Dexter & Co. Insurance
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Expanding our Minds
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Shaska Crabtree - Pebble Creek
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Can you imagine students instantaneously discovering and experiencing their world and fully immersing themselves in learning, all while staying in their classrooms? We can! This grant would allow our first through third-grade students a chance to experience learning at a new level- where all students in our classrooms are able to experience highly engaging experiences as they discover the world around them virtually. The learning experiences would ignite their curiosity and promote questioning and inquiry.
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$6,744
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Jim & Linda Woods
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Lighting Up the Future with Leadership and Responsibility!
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Stacie Watson - Pebble Creek
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School wide incentive for good behavior will be rewarded with games time and activities for students.
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$2,986
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Pebble Creek Country Club
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Printelligence
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Kate Cruickshanks - River Bend
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This grant will introduce 3D printing to students in kindergarten through fourth grade, promoting creativity and critical thinking. By connecting literature, design activities, and hands-on printing, we aim to enrich their learning experience while supporting various projects. The grant will provide the necessary resources for a holistic educational approach.
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$6,859
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Copy Corner
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Brick the Code: Building Bright Minds with LEGO STEM
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Karin Romero - River Bend
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Students in grades 1-4 will utilize these kits to design and engineer solutions for real-world problems, construct models of their solution, and program the models to move.
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$2,467
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Prosperity Bank
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Game On!
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Liat Lavy - River Bend
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In a time we are all captivated by devices and touch screens most of the day (It is a little ironic how these touch screens can make us lose touch with others), children do not always know how to play "normal" games and miss a very significant stage in their development. Board games develop learning abilities and social skills, bring people closer and strengthens relationships, decrease stress, enhance creativity and self-confidence.
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$1,998
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VLK Architects, Inc.
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Brain Bins!
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Lauri Nobles - Rock Prairie
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Using STEAM and sensory bins, students across grade levels will be encouraged to hone their observation and critical thinking skills, become better problem solvers, enhance their creativity and curiousity, and transfer real world application of their knowledge and skills. These bins will also enable students to become more adaptable to a wide range of situations and challenges.
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$3,500
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James & Tommie Haverland
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Regulation Station- A Sensory Approach to Social-Emotional Health
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Terri Barnett - Rock Prairie
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This grant would allow for a sensory walk and sensory tools to help our students regulate emotions. This would also provide sensory games and resources that allow students time to control their emotions and return to a safe brain state.
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$1,568
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Van Stavern Small Animal Hospital
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The Sound of Silence
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Mary Worley - Rock Prairie
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The noise cancelling headphones for student will provide them with piece of mind. Our students have sensory needs, difficulty with distraction, and over sensative processing systems.
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$170
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Darin Paine
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Bringing the Kinder-Garden to Life!
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Angela Guy - South Knoll
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Kindergarten classrooms will conduct on-going experiments with indoor gardens, insect farms, and observing living organisms all year long.
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$4,033
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Mark & Teresa Benden
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Illuminating Learning! Light Up Our Senses!
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Christy Mouchyn - South Knoll
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"Illuminating Learning! Light up our Senses!" is dedicated to enriching early childhood education by providing Pre-K classrooms with essential resources. This grant is tailored to support Pre-K programs in acquiring light tables and a comprehensive collection of sensory educational materials. These tools empower educators to create immersive, hands-on learning experiences that foster cognitive, social-emotional, and physical development in young learners, ensuring they meet critical Pre-K educational standards.
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$2,253
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American Momentum Bank
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Exploring Our Dynamic Earth
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Mary Murphy - South Knoll
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Third grade science teachers will provide students the opportunity to learn about and explore the effects of rapid changes to our Earth's surface.
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$550
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Fig-Mint Photography
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Readers Make Leaders
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Ashby Rowan - Southwood Valley
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We will create and supply a literacy library that will give teachers the tools and resources to teach students to read using the newest Science of Reading and research based reading instruction.
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$9,617
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Element Retirement & Investment Consultants - Eric & Joey Wylie
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Resetting the Reset Room
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Jannet Huntley - Southwood Valley
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Resetting the Reset Room will give us an opportunity to focus on student emotional regulation by providing tools and resources necessary to help students regulate their emotions first to have a better opportunity in the classroom.
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$1,895
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Texas A&M University - Office of the President
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Transforming Classroom Waste into Artistic Treasures: Empowering Emerging Eco-Artists
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Charly Stagg - SWV/RP/RB
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We are excited to present a grant proposal titled "Transforming Classroom Waste into Artistic Treasures: Empowering Emerging Eco-Artists" aimed at securing essential papermaking supplies for our elementary art classrooms. Our mission is to foster creativity while instilling a sense of environmental responsibility through an engaging recycling program.
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$3,832
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Britt Rice Electric / Britt & Kay Rice
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Locked IN and Locked OUT!
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Leslie Bloomer - CSISD Special Services
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Speech-language pathologists, OTs, LIFE, and ECSE teachers will utilize new technology in the classroom to open the doors of curriculum for students with limited visual and physical abilities.
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$4,180
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Culpepper Realty
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Cracking the Code
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Melissa Crouch - Spring Creek
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K-4th ELA teachers will use the provided resources to target individual student needs during small group instruction.
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$8,066
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ANCO Insurance
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Piecing Together Reading
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Melissa Crouch - Spring Creek
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First through fourth-grade students will use the letter tile trays to build and manipulate words during whole group and small group reading instruction.
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$5,444
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The Texas A&M University System, Office of the Chancellor
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Breaking Barriers with Book Clubs
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Cassie Reynolds - Spring Creek
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Our 4th grade students will collaborate across the grade level in high-interest middle grade book clubs to build relationships, deepen their understanding, and expand their love of reading.
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$984
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Amarillo National Bank
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Empowering Innovation: The Digital Canvas
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Melissa Jones - WMS
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Computer Science students will be able to use iPads and Apple Pencils for critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making when they design algorithms (code) to enable our Lego Mindstorm EV3 robots to perform tasks. Students will also be able to use these for creating hand-drawn graphics and publishing interactive stories, games, and animations.
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$2,471
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Andrews Orthodontics
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Taking a Closer Look at Crime
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Matthew Goehring - WMS
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Pricinples of Law teachers will give their students a chance to use the tools that crime scene investigators use to solve a mystery.
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$2,250
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Southern Smiles Dentistry
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Threads of Creativity: Empowering Theatre and Art Education with sewing machines
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Rachel Lea - WMS
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Art students will use sewing machines to create projects during Unit 3: Process. Moving through the planning process to create a 3-dimensional form from a 2-dimensional shape. Scholars will be able to experiment and problem solve to plan and create their artwork. Sewing machines could also be beneficially shared with Theatre to create and/or alter costumes and/or props for a variety of plays and musicals.
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$810
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The Rife Law Firm
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Mobility of Instruction in Math
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Colleen Cummings - WMS
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With the use of an IPAD and an Apple Pencil, a math teacher can consistently monitor the quality of student participation and performance during whole group instruction due to the mobility the Ipad and Apple Pencil provides. Students can also be asked to contribute to the lesson if given the pad and pencil. Showing their process can impact the understanding of other students in the room. Studies have documented proximity to students increases relationships and connections.
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$412
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H-E-B
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Empowering Creative Learning Via iPads and Apple Pencils
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Fey Hysmith - WMS
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This grant sparks creativity and intrinsic motivation for Middle school PAAV (Principles of Arts, Audio/Video Technology, and Communication) students as they prepare for real-world careers in graphic design, animation, audio/video production, fashion design, video game design, and commercial photography. This technology empowers students to innovate and lead, nurturing a lifelong passion for learning without limits.
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$7,451
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James & Jill Faith
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