Grants for 2015

Classroom Amplification Technology

Amount: $5,200 | Year: 2015 | School:

The goal of this project is to provide amplification in the upper grade classrooms so that students can overcome acoustic obstacles and achieve greater academic success. The CAT is a whole room audio system that allows the teacher’s voice to be amplified and heard regardless of where the students are seated in the classroom.

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Investigating the Sciences using Data Collection Probes

Amount: $3,629 | Year: 2015 | School:

In conjunction with an iPad, the Science department will utilize LabQuest2 standalone Data Collection Devices to engage the students in ‘hands-on’ and ‘minds-on’ learning. The probes provide students with the opportunity to quickly acquire real-time data and facilitate real work inquiry-based learning in a STEM environment.

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Auditorium Sound System Upgrade

Amount: $8,284 | Year: 2015 | School: ,

Due to the multi-use nature of the auditorium and its impact on nearly every program and department within the school, upgrading the sound system provides immediate and long-lasting benefits for our students, faculty, parents, and community. By addressing the loudspeaker system, the audio upgrade will improve audio coverage, quality, and versatility to the sound system.

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Cardiac Classroom

Amount: $2,266 | Year: 2015 | School:

By attending the Live From Surgery program a the Liberty Science Center, student are able to experience an operating room, peer over the shoulders of the medical team, and talk to surgeons during surgery. LSC facilitators move among students in the theater during the 2.5 hour session, shaping the conversation and structuring developmentally appropriate questions. […]

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Promoting STEM through the use of Rockets

Amount: $890 | Year: 2015 | School:

Providing various equipment, students design, build, test and modify rockets while investigating a variety of physics. In addition, the rocket design activities can be adapted to address additional physics concepts and incorporate the 3D printer as students design and modify their rockets.

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