Every month, the Eduporium team awards an EdTech grant to a deserving member of the education community. The award is in the amount of $500 and recipients may use it to purchase any combination of EdTech items from our store that fit within the dollar amount. Established back in 2018, we've used this program to help teachers empower their traditionally underserved students. Whether that's providing more equitable access to STEAM activities and experiences, helping to hone their social-emotional skills, or even enhance their extracurricular experiences, we are proud to offer this opportunity each month and to positively impact students around the country. Any educator is eligible to apply for our technology grant. Even those who might not work in a school are welcome. We love helping enhance auxiliary programs too, including those in libraries, museums, community centers, and makerspaces.
Our team encourages educators from Title I schools to apply as well as anybody who's never applied for grants before. We give special consideration to those with a demonstrated financial need and a clear plan to implement new technology tools in an educational setting. The application is open from the 1st to the 20th of each calendar month. Once that window closes, our team reviews all the applications and makes a selection. We'll then privately notify the recipient of each EdTech grant before publicly sharing the news. At the end of the month, we send out an email to highlight the recipient and create a blog post to share their selection and project details as well. If you have any questions, feel free to contact our team. We'd also encourage you to share the application link around your school or district. Check out our features on past recipients below!
Like many educators, Jessica believes strongly in the power of STEM and community. She’s also seen, however, that it’s not always easy to achieve across-the-board excitement for some initiatives. That’s why she’s going to focus on student collaboration—particularly across disciplines—and help art and CS students build an interactive mural.
Tania works with students from diverse backgrounds and understands the importance of creating equitable STEM opportunities. This factor certainly weighed into her decision when she was evaluating what to request as part of the award. Ultimately, she decided on Root Robots—largely due to their versatility. Head inside to learn more about her plans.
Like so many educators, Jolie has been challenged to find a creative way to continue providing STEM programming for kids from a distance. Many children and parents aren’t yet fully comfortable with in-person programs, so, with a little ingenuity, Jolie has adapted the museum’s offerings to allow for students to try various STEM activities at home.
As always, we’re excited to see how the grant will help Bonni and her colleagues realize their collective mission of making greater progress in their STEM education programs. According to her, they’ve spent many years talking about how to evolve their STEM offerings and now find themselves in the right position to truly make it happen for their students.
In offering these grant opportunities, we’re looking for educators who have creative ideas for addressing these deficiencies. Whether your primary focus is on helping students overcome learning loss or boosting their social-emotional health, this award is designed to help teachers reclaim normalcy starting in the next few months.
Lori wants to give her unique children an opportunity to partake in student-centered, accessible, and collaborative learning opportunities, which mesh perfectly with maker education. In fact, she’s even thinking about modeling this space after a college library or maker studio to really help create much more of a real-world feel for all of her students.
Once she settles in to the new school year, Terri is committed to advancing STEAM opportunities for her students. She has a number of lesson plans in mind, including challenging students to find similarities and differences in projects each of them design, helping students deepen their understanding of curricular objectives, and boosting SEL strength.
This month, we’ve presented our EdTech grant to Christa Rozas from Boston Public Schools! Christa is a teacher at the Perry K-6 School in the South Boston neighborhood and a big advocate of introducing computer science early. Her school is also very diverse and she’s done a lot to ensure that all her students have access to STEM opportunities.
David is largely responsible for creating valuable afterschool STEM opportunities for students. Through the Maker Mentor Program, in particular, he’s helped connect students with makers in their community. Read on to learn more about him, including his plans for teaching with drones and 3D printers as well as what he’ll receive from us.
We’ve awarded our $500 EdTech grant for the month of May to Marylin Prysi! Marylin is a teacher at the Villas Elementary School in Fort Meyers, FL and currently designing a STEM lab. She works with a large amount of minority students and helps create beneficial STEAM experiences for them to learn and grow together!
