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.
Excerpts from Recent Issues of
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 in
Education to support activities that help 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
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, email, and file
sharing."
"InvenTeams Boosts Technology &
Invention with Lemelson-MIT Teacher-
Student Technology Team Grants & Awards"
http://web.mit.edu/invent
/www/InvenTeam/info.html
"InvenTeam grants, sponsored by the 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.."
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