Innovation Grant Winners Archive
2019 Winners
Carrie Settles Livers Grant – “ALTERNATIVE ENERGY WE NEED,’ IT CAN HELP US TO FEED, AND ENCOURAGE US TO READ!”
We have just constructed a “literary garden” with flowering plants acquired from notable authors’ homes. We will use wind energy to power a water feature (while also teaching alternative energies) to help our garden become a certified wildlife habitat, which attracts...
Richard White Grant – “Putting the TEAM in STEAM”
In this project, students would have an opportunity to learn about sound and video engineering through making videos using our green screen and then using the grant purchased video/sound mixer to edit and perfect it. Those who were more interested in music would be...
Dr. Tamieka Grizzle Grant – “Start Them Early! Building A Foundation For Coding And Robotics!”
Start them early! Georgia Legislature passed a bill (GA SB 108) that will require middle and high schools to offer computer science by the 2024-2025 school year. What about elementary students? I have witnessed firsthand that even Kindergarteners can code! With this...
Dr. Doug Doblar – “Bringing Math And Science To Life And Together”
I propose to make the STEM fields integrated, relevant, and exciting with a collection of digital science sensors, probes, and equipment that can bring our students’ real-time data that can be used both to create science phenomena and to offer real, relevant data to...
K. C. Revere – “Virtual REALity”
The project will focus on enhancing instructional delivery through the use of Virtual Reality (VR) headsets in Science classes. Science teachers will utilize VR headsets to provide students with experiences that feel like actual life experiences. Experiences through...
2018 Winners
Ms. Erin Miley – “Swivl-up to Writing Success: A Robot Camera Launch”
This project will implement digital storytelling via Swivl robot cameras within third-grade classrooms at New Mountain Hill Elementary (NMHE) in order to increase writing achievement. Students will gain critical ELA skills to become effective writers, producers, and...
Melinda Mauter – “Getting STEAMy with Specdrums!”
It’s time to get STEAMy in the Orchestra room with Specdrums! App-connected rings that turn color into sound, Specdrums give students the opportunity to create, explore, and connect with Music on any surface available. Inside or outside, regardless of where they...
Beth M Haynes – “A View from the Future”
Louisville Middle School would like to include a Drone Curriculum as part of an elective class (Audio Visual and Outdoor Classroom). This curriculum would entail a number of projects ranging from filming sporting events/practices, creating positive promotional videos...
Hannah Odom – “Body Systems Models”
The purpose of this problem based learning experience will be for students to understand the importance of each body system individually and as a whole towards the maintenance of homeostasis within the human body. We will first begin this learning experience by...
2017 Winners
MarLynn Bailey – “Boogie for a More Interactive Math Classroom”
Using Boogie Board writing tablets, students would be able to work math problems on a 10.5 LCD screen. Boogie Boards tablets can replace the traditional personal student whiteboards that we often cannot use because expo markers get used up so quickly. Teachers can use...
Traci Costilow – “Computer Science -From Start to Finish!”
Students in grades K through 5 will work on coding in Python using the Kano kits. Students with more coding experience will choose a language (JavaScript, Ruby, or Python) and work through completing the puzzles in the books JavaScript for Kids, Ruby for Kids, or...
Dr. Valerie Bennett & Ms. Jesse Downs – “Invasion of the Drones”
The purpose of this project is to provide students in Spanish class with an exciting hands-on STEM experience that will improve their performance on one of the most challenging aspects of their curriculum – prepositions and the present progressive. Students will use...
Jennifer Jackson – “The World Through My Eyes”
Students will use digital cameras & computer applications to build technology and literacy, (communication), skills. Students will learn the power of visual communication by studying photographers such as Lewis Hine and Dorothea Lange as they strengthen their ELA...
2016 Winners
Emily Chatlen – “Move, Play, Learn, Grow!”
Move, Play, Learn, Grow!” is a proposed plan in which our special education population can enjoy a multi-sensory learning experience. The project involves the use of an interactive, motion-censored projection screen. The interactive screen is a learning tool that...
Madeline Hall – “SMArTE Space”
The SMArTE (science, math, art, technology, and engineering) Space project helps to support science and technology standards. SMArTE space in the media center provides opportunities for students to use creativity and inventive thinking to build prototypes, explore...
Pamela Sanford – “Alternative Energy Cross-Curricular Unit”
This unit is designed to give 5th graders insight into how engineers in a real-world setting use data to make informed decisions. A secondary goal is to give our students exposure to alternative energy and its potential uses within our community. In this 18 week...
Anne Hodgskiss – “Underwater Robotics”
Underwater Robotics Students will experience authentic engineering through the SeaPerch program. Teachers deliver standards and process skills through a STEM lens with a robotics platform. This inquiry-based program will support our goal of building a pipeline for...
2015 Winners
Jacob Elliott – “Robotics With Lego WeDo”
Dimon is working to become a STEM-certified. Part of this process involves engaging students through robotics. In grades 2-3, students would become familiar with the process of building robots through Lego WeDo construction sets. Students would learn that robots...
Jan Mullis – “Research Revelations”
Putnam County Middle School 7th grade ELA class plan on using laptops to facilitate a blended model of instruction and increase engagement and motivation on assigned tasks and projects such as daily centers, remediation, National History Day, science fair, and social...
Martha Bongiorno – “The Rise of Frankenstuffers”
Frankenstuffers are rising at Arthur Williams Middle School! Our seventh grade life science classrooms plan on utilizing stuffed animals donated by the community in conjunction with Google Slides on Acer Chromebooks in order to teach the domain of interdependence of...
Regina Nance & Patti Hobby – “Code Breakers Who Are Big Thinkers”
This project will provide hands-on learning integrated with technology in a way that is not only new and innovative in the early childhood classroom, but also engaging and exciting to students. We will incorporate the use of small robots, tablets, and apps to teach...
2014 Winners
Nicole Snipes – “Can You See The Cells?”
The students will use the table top microscopes to investigate different types of cells and recreate what they are seeing as well as relate the organelles to their functions. Students will be paired up on virtual Instagram project where they will use what they see in...
Lisa Byrd – “Digitize History Project”
The “Digitize History Project” will enable Hephzibah Middle School students to use a variety of resources with Google Play Apps for Education. Students will explore and discovery history for themselves, and use digital apps to share their understanding of through...
Chris Rogers – “MAKE-ing a Difference”
We will create a MakerSpace with materials for students to create, problem-solve, and think critically about the world. We will focus activities on our Earth Science curriculum. Our students to identify issues that impact the environment and use the space to design...
Lynn Doyle – “First Lego League”
This program features a real-world scientific concept to be explored by our students through research, teamwork, construction and imagination! Our students will be able to: Design and build a challenge- related model using Lego components, create a Show Me poster and...
2013 Winners
Becky Nipper & Ashley Holland – “iPad Investigations: Project-Based Learning Centers”
This project will use iPads to create project-based learning centers for students to immerse themselves in technology while learning content. Funds will be used to facilitate the learning centers and provide a place for students to conduct their investigations while...
Becky Nipper & Ashley Holland – “iPad Investigations: Project-Based Learning Centers”
This project will use iPads to create project-based learning centers for students to immerse themselves in technology while learning content. Funds will be used to facilitate the learning centers and provide a place for students to conduct their investigations while...
Michele McKie – “Increasing Math Achievement for Students in Co-Taught Math Classrooms”
This project will use ten Apple iPod Touches to increase math computation skills of students with disabilities and low performing general education students. These devices will enable students to enhance their mathematics learning through the use of instructional apps...
Susan Topham – “iDetectives: Using iPads to Build Research Skills & Digital Literacy”
This objective of this grant is to increase access to technology for 356 4th grade students at Cartersville Elementary School during the 2013-14 school year so that students can: (1) conduct internet-based research, (2) build digital literacy skills and (3) improve...