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!
We have awarded our educational technology grant for the month of April to Creighton Helms of the Gervais School District. Creighton serves as the principal of the Gervais Elementary School in Gervais, OR and has really worked to create relevant STEAM learning opportunities for the students he supports.
We’ve awarded our EdTech grant for March to Andrew Nikola from the Wappingers Central School District in New York! Andrew works with students throughout K-12 and serves as one of the district’s innovation leaders. Learn more about how we’ll be helping them advance their district-wide approach to providing equitable hands-on experiences.
For his award, we will be providing Justin and his students with some micro:bit V2 kits to use in their STEAM program. Since the micro:bit’s allow students to complete standalone activities as well as take part in new experiences that are tied to their existing PBL units, they’ll make a great fit as Justin expands CS opportunities for all.
Jil is committed to providing students with the resources and opportunities they would have access to in a traditional educational setting. She’s chosen to go about facilitating opportunities through the implementation of robotics tools. Jil sees this opportunity as a game changer for her students as she helps them discover hidden talents.
We’re happy to announce that we have awarded our final EdTech grant of 2020 to Mary Bonnetty, an elementary teacher from Honolulu, Hawaii! Mary teaches at the Queen Ka’ahumanu Elementary School and has made a huge impact on the STEM offerings her students get to experience whether learning in-person or remotely.
We have presented our November EdTech grant to Charnley DeMeritt, who is a STEM lab teacher at the Oakview Elementary School, which is located in Simpsonville, SC! Part of the Greenville School System, their STEAM lab has evolved into a place where all students can experiment, think critically, and develop both hard and soft skills from their initial failures.
We are pleased to announce we’ve awarded our tech grant for October to Josh Jennings, who’s a high school teacher in the Florence County School District 3! Josh helps head up their Panther CODE (Creating Opportunities for Developing Engineers) program after school, which was established to give some underrepresented students more exposure to STEM.
Joining eight previous STEM grant recipients for the calendar year of 2020, we have presented September’s award to Michellea Millis, an administrator with the BrownSTEM afterschool program that’s based in San Antonio, TX. She works with underrepresented African-American and Latinx students to help create STEM experiences and we’re excited to award her this grant!
We’ve transitioned into another new month, and that means we have some news regarding the awarding of our EdTech grant from last month. For this latest award, we’ve presented the grant to Carla Neely, who is a fourth and fifth grade STEM teacher at an all-girls school in Cleveland, Ohio—and she works with a lot of Title I students as
Jonathan Long is a middle school STEM teacher in the Eastern Lancaster County (PA) School District and a huge fan of using technology in instruction. He’s used some different EdTech tools in the past and we’re excited to be able to provide him with a new one to try—the databot. Read on to learn more about him and his STEM
