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!
Once again, we’re excited to share some news about the latest recipient of the Eduporium EdTech grant for the month of June! For the latest grant, we have chosen Sam Yancey, who’s a longtime gifted education teacher in the Haywood County School District in North Carolina! Sam is an avid lover of STEAM education and has used an extensive list
For the month of May, the award has been given to Jessica Herr, a teacher at the TC McSwain Elementary School in Staunton, Virginia! With the STEAM tools she’ll be receiving from us, Jessica has a pretty amazing project planned—one that involves drones, coding, bees, and plenty of collaboration for students.
This month, the award goes to Save Our Children Elyria, a big afterschool program in Elyria, Ohio! The group helps support many local K-12 students throughout the Elyria City Schools with various academic and nutritional assistance year round and, since learning has transitioned largely online, they’ve created a virtual makerspace for students!
For this past month, we are happy to present this award to Ed Mondragon, who runs the CTE department with the Granite School District in Salt Lake City, Utah! Like so many educators, Ed is now searching for ways to make remote learning as meaningful as possible for each of his students and for all the committed teachers he works
It’s the start of a new month, so that means we have some news regarding our EdTech grant from last month. For the month of February, we’ve awarded our grant to Michelle Shea, who’s a librarian at Texas A&M University Central—the first time we’ve given the award to somebody in higher education!
We’re excited to be able to present another dedicated educator with an EdTech grant. For the month of January, we’ve selected Kern Kelley, a middle school teacher from RSU 19 in Newport, Maine as the recipient! Among all of the submissions we received, Kern’s stood out to us due to the connections to the spirit of the Maker Movement.
We have awarded our final $500 EdTech grant of the year (and of the decade!), closing out 2019 with over $5,000 worth of technology contributions to schools and teachers around the country! For the month of December, we’ve awarded our grant to Ellen Peterson, a STEM and technology teacher at the Smithfield Middle School in Smithfield, VA.
For the month of November, we’ve awarded the grant to Jason Kissel, who works with students and teachers at over 30 schools! Jason is the Tech Liaison from the South-Western City School District in Grove City, Ohio and he is responsible for helping teachers at the district’s 32 schools integrate new tech into their instruction.
Shirley has an extra area within her library designated as a Transformation Space that changes every few weeks. For their next project, Shirley will be challenging her students to build a 9-12 foot wall keyboard using some of the materials she’ll receive from our grant, which include a liter of the Bare Conductive Electric Paint and a Bare Conductive Touch
We’re excited to be able to provide Sharon and her students with some new alternative energy tools to use in their classroom and can’t wait to see how things shake out! Sharon submitted a great application with some wonderful background information on the work she has done to better learn how to teach STEM to her students, which we loved!
