The “Grants
for K-12” Index provides a guide to grants
for school programs, curriculum development, and staff
professional development for teachers, as well as
grants for specific topic areas such as science, math,
technology, social studies, geography, reading, learning
via web quests, and other technological training.
Build on the strengths of your present programs, expand
your present offerings, or create new and challenging
courses with the help of cash, hardware, software,
computer/IT training, and staff professional development
or funding for new programs and curriculum development.
The “Grants
for K-12” Index will show you how corporate
funders are reaching out to educators with support
for technology. Opportunities for K-12, after-school
programs, LEAs and BOCES are available. The “Grants
for K-12” Index includes grants/funding/resources
for technology support. It is valuable for teachers,
school administrators, individual schools, districts,
libraries and technology development/grant officers.
Recent Excerpts from Technology Grant
News:
Toshiba/National Science Teachers Association
ExploraVision Program
Deadline:
February Annually
http://www.exploravision.org/
1-800-EXPLOR9
The
ExploraVision program challenges teams of
2-4 students to research scientific principles
and current technologies as the basis for
designing innovative technologies that could
exist in 20 years. Students on the four first-place
ExploraVision winning teams will each receive
a $10,000 U.S. Series EE Savings Bond valued
at maturity. Students on second-place teams
will each receive a $5,000 bond valued at
maturity. The eight teams will also receive
an expenses-paid trip with their families,
mentor, and coach to Washington, DC
“Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams
Boosts
Technology Invention
With
Teacher-Student
Team
Grants & Awards ”
Deadline:
April Annually
http://web.mit.edu/inventeams/
Lemelson-MIT
InvenTeams is a national grants initiative
of the Lemelson-MIT Program to foster inventiveness
among high school students. InvenTeams composed
of high school students, teachers and mentors
are asked to collaboratively identify a problem
that they want to solve, research the problem,
and then develop a prototype invention as
an in-class or extracurricular project. Grants
of up to $10,000 support each team's efforts.
InvenTeams are encouraged to work with community
partners. InvenTeams are formed by high school
students, their teacher, and an industry mentor
for the purpose of inventing something of
value for their school or local communities.
High school science, mathematics, or technology
teachers are invited to apply for the grants….”
California
Teacher Tells How
He Won Tech Equipment - Grants Galore for
His Classroom
By
Bryan Feci
ussenterprise02@comcast.net
Click
Here to Download Full Article Free
Due
to successful winning grants, I have obtained
the following materials for my classroom:
15 classroom laptop computers from various
grants,,,, 1 laptop storage
cabinet, 1 scanner, 6 digital cameras, 10
electronic thesauruses, 1 wireless networked
printer/copier/scanner, 1 document camera,
1 LCD projector, 5 electricity kits with 16
investigations, 5 static electricity kits,
a river model kit to study erosion, Pangaea
model, earthquake fault model and demonstration
kit, rock and mineral test kits and samples,
licensed copies of 2 math computer software
applications, a classroom field trip, and
miscellaneous technologies such as replacement
keyboards and mice, headphones, CD's, and
DVD's...
Digital Wish
Grants
Deadline: Rolling
Grants will be awarded on the 28th of every
calendar month.)
http://www.digitalwish.com/dw/
digitalwish/grant_awards
Heather Chirtea, (802) 375-6721
heather@digitalwish.org
Digital Wish is now offering a
program that matches teachers
with donors. To find a donor,
teachers must build a wish list of
Digital Wish classroom technology products.
Teachers may then tel
their stories and share their lesson
plan ideas. Prospective donors can
review a classroom profile and
donate funding or purchase a wish
list item for a school. After
each technology purchase, Digital
Wish will automatically donate an additional
2-10% in immediate
cash-back funding to the recipient
school to fund their next
technology project.
Davidson
Technology Scholarships
Deadline: Various, Annually
http://www.ditd.org
http://www.ditdservices.org/Articles
.aspx?ArticleID=146&NavID=4_3#
The Davidson Institute for Talent Development
is offering Davidson Fellowships, an honor
accompanied
by a $50,000, $25,000, or $10,000 scholarship
in recognition of a
significant piece of work in the
categories of science, technology, mathematics,
music, literature, philosophy, or "outside
the box." Applicants must be under the
age of 18 as of October 1, 2007,
and a U.S. citizen or permanent U.S. resident.
residing in the United States. There is no
minimum age for eligibility.
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