Grants for High School

Environmental Science Course

Amount: $3,473 | Year: 2009 | School:

The district has been rewriting curricula to meet the requirements of the Understanding by Design format. Environmental Science, an elective for juniors and seniors, is in the process of modifying its approach to teaching science, resulting in a class that is even more inquiry-based and field oriented. It is designed to incorporate important scientific skills […]

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Connecting Art, Consumerism & Math

Amount: $8,700 | Year: 2009 | School:

This NPEF grant will not only allow students to investigate the connection between visual artistry and consumerism, but also teach them how advantageous mathematical graphing can be to design. The graphing calculators allow students to visualize mathematical concepts in a way that contributes positively to their growing skill sets by making connections between algebraic expressions […]

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Technology in Journalism

Amount: $5,400 | Year: 2009 | School:

This grant is designed to enhance the experience of student journalists inside and outside the classroom of the NP High School. The Providential is the student run and produced newspaper and currently, student editors are working with software originally dating back to the 1980’s. An upgrade of the software with the purchase of a new […]

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Computer Tool for Transforming Design

Amount: $3,387 | Year: 2009 | School:

The purpose of this grant is to help combine computer technology with modern manufacturing techniques to bring students’ original designs on computer to a finished professional product. Purchasing a CNC Router machine and the companion software will allow students to use the CNC tool to read their computer designs and produce the actual or model […]

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Admissions Game

Amount: $1,500 | Year: 2009 | School:

The Admission Game, hosted by outside speaker Peter Van Buskirk, is an interactive program during which the audience (students and their families) is transformed into the college admissions panel at a highly competitive university. The audience is then asked to evaluate student applications based upon a larger discussion of the factors considered by a college […]

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