Our Grants - 2013

Testing of CPR skills is required by the state and district and is one of the measurable learner objectives for Health. These kits will be checked out to online health students enabling them to learn and practice skills at home. Skills assessment will be done by the online health teacher or the District Coordinator of Secondary Health. The kits include a DVD and a practice mannequin. Kits can be cleaned and are reused for future classes.

Grant Funds Requested: $1,435

Provides the Social Studies departments at Hickman High School and Rock Bridge High School each with a traveling iPad lab (and supporting technology) by which teachers can engage their students in the study of 21st-century skills and literacy through contemporary historical/cultural/governmental texts directly in their classrooms. The grant will include 35 iPad Minis with protective covers and some instructional software applications per building. Students will complete personalized, inquiry-based “iHistory” research projects that showcase the content and skills they have mastered by having access to the technology purchased through the grant.

Grant Funds Requested: $24,254

Students enrolled in these exciting new courses will greater access to new “state of the art” technologies such as programmable robots and 3-dimensional “printing” of objects they design. Through the design and construction of intelligent machines, as well as the “rapid prototyping” of engineered parts, students will explore a variety of scientific, technological and mathematical applications.

Grant Funds Requested: $23,650

The focus of this grant is to establish a core non-fiction electronic book (eBook) collection for the four senior high schools in Columbia. As mobile computing becomes more ubiquitous, and with the move to online and electronic resources for different content areas, having a robust eBook collection that will meet the needs of our students and teachers is essential. For the 2013-2014 school year, all four high schools will have ninth through twelfth grade students, except for the new high school which will gain a senior class during the second year. This move to four-grade level buildings will require schools to build up their current library collections to support the curriculums of the incoming ninth grade classes while also offering materials in a variety of formats. Our hope is to allow our students to access the Library Media Center’s resources from anywhere at any time, allowing learning to happen outside of the walls of our school.

Grant Funds Requested: $12,000.00