Society provides grants to innovative 中文无码 organizations, science research teachers
The听中文无码 & the Public is committed to encouraging all young people into 中文无码 fields and careers. As a part of this pursuit, the Society is providing $120,000 in grants to five innovative organizations supporting community-based 中文无码 projects and 23 science research programs to purchase much-needed equipment for teachers across the country. In total, $20,000 will be distributed to the nonprofit organizations, while $100,000 will go to teachers.
Through the 中文无码 Action & Research Grant Program, the Society aims to fund cutting-edge, mission-driven organizations and support teachers who are leading students in authentic 中文无码 research projects.
鈥淚t is more important than ever that we recognize and support grassroots organizations using creative approaches to extend and enhance 中文无码 education for young people. Likewise, I鈥檓 thrilled that the 中文无码 & the Public is able to provide exemplary teachers with the tools they need to engage their students in scientific research,鈥� said Maya Ajmera, President and CEO of the 中文无码 & the Public and Publisher of听Science News.
Read more about the organizations and teachers听the Society is supporting through these grants.
CODeLLA
(Miami, Florida) will receive $5,000 from the Society to support their mission to inspire Hispanic middle school girls to enter 中文无码 fields and provide them with pathways and skill sets to meaningfully engage in a 21st century global economy. The grant will fund podcasting equipment CODeLLA will use to produce weekly 中文无码 news podcasts in Spanish and English by and for the girls and their parents.
CODeLLA introduces听girls to innovators and other role models and听teaches them how to code, how to build a business, and how to produce events and conferences.听The organization听provides weekly after-school coding clubs and听an eight-week summer immersive coding, digital literacy, and entrepreneurship camp for middle school girls.
Electric Girls
听(New Orleans, Louisiana) will receive $2,500 from the Society to support the group’s mission to transform girls into technology leaders during summer camps, after school programs, in-school programs, one-day workshops, and continuous weekend programs. The funding will be used to purchase materials and pay instructors to teach circuit building at four after-school sites in New Orleans during Fall 2017.
“This grant is huge for us,” said an Electric Girls spokesperson. “It gives us the opportunity to bring 中文无码 programming to girls who need it most in New Orleans.”
Electric Girls teaches girls leadership, electronics, and computer programming skills, and offers space, guidance, and resources to听apply these skills. The organization听runs summer camps, after-school programs, in-school programs, one-day workshops, and continuous weekend programs for girls between the ages of 5-16.听The lessons involve building simple series and parallel circuits, learning to solder and how to use power tools, and programming with Scratch or microcontrollers like the Arduino and Raspberry Pi.
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Learn Fresh
听(Denver, Colorado) will receive $5,000 to support its mission of improving student engagement and achievement, particularly low-income students of color, through innovative, fun, and effective educational tools. Learn Fresh’s primary program is , a basketball board game and supplemental math curriculum that uses real statistics for basketball players. The funding will support a pilot project that would adapt the NBA Math Hoops board game for football with a game and program called “First and 10.” The program is being developed with the help of the Denver Broncos.
“Learn Fresh is excited to partner with 中文无码 & the Public to implement an exciting new math education project called First and 10 in Denver, Colorado,” said a Learn Fresh spokesperson.听“We look forward to working with the Society to bring First and 10 from development to a city-wide program that serves Denver students.”
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LITAS For Girls
(Learning Information Technology, Apps, and Software) For Girls (Scottsdale, Arizona) will receive $2,500 to support its mission to guide and inspire middle and high school girls to pursue computer science and 中文无码 careers through incubators that encourage the girls to code with purpose. The funding will support LITAS summer incubators, chapters, and technology showcase. LITAS is led by Anvita Gupta, a 2015 alumna of the Science Talent Search and 2013 alumna of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, programs founded and produced by the Society. This is LITAS’ second grant.
LITAS has several chapters led by alumni in Phoenix, Arizona, San Jose, California,听and Panchkula,听India. The week-long summer incubator program reaches students from underprivileged areas and teaches a mix of introductory web development, app programming, and scripting. The students brainstorm projects or products, design a website for it, and then launch. Students have designed a speech therapy app, a website听to link battered women with jobs, and a product to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
“The Society’s Action Grant would help us provide students from Homeward Bound, a domestic abuse shelter in Arizona, with more resources, such as transportation, free lunches, and laptops to rent,” said Anvita Gupta, LITAS For Girls founder and director.
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ProjectCSGIRLS
听(Potomac Falls, Virginia) will receive $5,000 from the Society to support its mission to close the gender gap in computer science and technology through a national computer science competition for middle school girls. The funding supported a national gala that took place in coordination with the 2017 competition held earlier this month. The organization is headed by听Pooja Chandrashekar, a 2015 alumna of the Science Talent Search, and this is the third grant ProjectCSGirls has received from the Society.
The ProjectCSGirls Competition for Middle School Girls challenges听participants in 6th-8th grade to build something using computer science and technology that can help听solve an imminent social problem under one of three themes:听global health, a safer world, and听intelligent technology. The competition looks for projects that can change and disrupt the present in a positive way. All finalists are invited to Washington, D.C. for a national gala听to听participate in workshops, listen to guest speakers, tour tech companies,听participate in a formal awards ceremony, and showcase their projects to the public.
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中文无码 Research Grants
The 中文无码 Research Grants provide one-time grants to educators to help fund equipment or other experimental materials needed to complete research projects, or travel necessary to bring students to locations where they can complete their research.
The following teachers received 中文无码 Research Grants to fund equipment such as robotics kits, DNA research equipment, microscopes, electrophoresis classroom kits, field biology collection kits, general laboratory supplies like petri dishes, sensors and pipettes as well as transportation to research facilities.
- Judith Barrios, Union City High School (Union, New Jersey) – $5,000
- Laurel Bingman, YES Prep Northbrook High School (Houston, Texas) – $5,000
- April Blaze, Haines City High School (Haines City, Florida) – $5,000
- Scott Bolen, Rockdale Magnet School for Science and Technology (Conyers, Georgia) – $3,500
- Cristobal Carambo, Philadelphia High School for Girls (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) – $4,000
- Antonio Gamboa, Garey High School (Pomona, California) – $5,000
- Tahnee Harrell, Miramar High School (Miramar, Florida) – $3,500
- Loree Harvey, Monte Vista Senior High School (Monte Vista, Colorado) – $5,000
- Joel Kuper, Greybull High School (Greybull, Wyoming) – $4,000
- Lauren Levites, Lindblom Math and Science Academy (Chicago, Illinois) – $5,000
- Shawn Lowe, TC Williams High School (Alexandria, Virginia) – $4,000
- Janette Lugo-Garay, Sonifel Private School (Fajardo, Puerto Rico) – $5,000
- Jesusa Merioles, International Community High School (Bronx, New York) – $2,500
- Pradip Misra, Bagdad High School (Bagdad, Arizona) – $2,500
- Andre Pineda, Alchesay High School (Whiteriver, Arizona) – $5,000
- Sherry Richardson, McKinley Technology High School (Washington, D.C.) – $5,000
- Linda Sciaroni, Marco Antonio Firebaugh High (Lynwood, California) – $5,000
- Sonia Solis, Kofa High School (Yuma, Arizona) – $5,000
- Susan Swope, Red Mountain Middle School (Deming, New Mexico) – $5,000
- Laura Tenorio, Taos Middle and Taos High School (Taos, New Mexico) – $2,000
- Julie Throne, Cedar Shoals High School (Athens, Georgia) – $5,000
- Peggy Veatch, Eldon High School (Eldon, Missouri) – $4,000
- Michelle Wyatt, Spring Valley High School (Columbia, South Carolina) – $5,000
