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:
“BellSouth Foundation Supports Technology
in Education”
http://www.bellsouthfoundation.org/
http://www.bellsouthfoundation.org/grants
/og/index.html
“BellSouth will award Opportunity Grants to
fully integrate technology into classroom instruction.
The foundation is particularly interested in programs
that encourage leadership to incorporate technology
in a way that enhances teaching, learning, planning,
or administration….”
“Electronic Data Systems Gives Funds
For K-12 Classroom Teachers to Purchase Equipment”
http://www.eds.com/about
/community/grants/
Charlene Edwards, (972) 605-6557
e-mail: charlene.edwards@eds.com
“Electronic Data Systems will give $1,500 to
teachers through an open application process. Grants
must be used to pay for technology products, training
and services not provided to the teacher by the school
or the school district…. The grants are awarded
to teachers through their schools Examples of qualified
grant expenditures include, but are not limited to,
computer software and hardware; multimedia equipment
such as Web-Cams, CD-ROM libraries, digital cameras
and, scanners and video boards; modems, internet access,
and technical training.”
“Internet Innovator Awards Recognize
Teachers Using the Internet”
http://www.nsawards.com
“The Internet Innovator Awards are available
for teachers using the Internet. Ten award winners
will be chosen. One (1) cash prize award of $10,000,
will be payable to the Teachers… The Internet
Innovator Awards Program will recognize and reward
educators who have gone above and beyond technology
use requirements within the K-12 classroom, library,
or computer laboratory and who take full advantage
of Internet technologies such as the World Wide Web,
e-mail, and file sharing.”
“InvenTeams Program Boosts Invention
with Technology
With Teacher-Student Technology Team Grant
& Awards Program”
http://web.mit.edu/invent
/www/InvenTeam/info.html
“InvenTeam grants, sponsored by Lemelson-MIT,
will provide grants of up to $10,000 each
to ten high school teams nationwide for the
academic year. The grants are designed to
encourage a non-competitive, team-based approach
to innovation, awards and to generate excitement
among high school students about the inventive
process. 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...
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