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Grant Application Approval

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Grant Title. PfiZer Community Grant

Kristina Ngai WJJMs fl

Name of Applicant: School:

Funding Source: Pfizer Grant Value 303.73 i
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Grant Purpose (goals):

Upgrading middle school robotics equipment to make it compatable with curriculum for
STEM and programming.

Requirements of Grant (reports, surveys, expectations):

None.

What other Departments may be impacted by grant funding? (i.e: IT Department, Teaching &
Learning, etc):
None.

Submission Deadline: March 31, 2022 Giant Award PeradiStack
(date and time) Sen ite toa TET

Grant Reporting Deadline: 7/1 12022

Link to Grant Request for Proposal (RFP): "”

7/1/2022 End: 6/1/2023

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Grant Manager:

BOE Meeting Date: Rev 9/20

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Community Grants

* Location

Organization Information

4 - Groton, CT

* Legal Name

* Organization Country

* Organization Address
Organization Address 2
* Organization City

Organization State

Organization Zip/Postal Code

* Organization Main
Telephone

Organization Main Fax

* Organization Website
Address

Qualified no-profit?

Government Entity?

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Colchester Public School District

United States

Ste 202
Colchester

Connecticut

06415

860-537-7264

860-537-1252

colchesterct.org

Yes

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* Mission Statement and
History

Contact Section

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Our mission: We Create Innovative Thinkers for a Dynamic
World.

Our Goals: We will raise academic growth expectations for all
students.

Students will develop innovative thinking and authentic
problem-solving skills by engaging in rigorous tasks.

Our instruction and curriculum facilitate integrated, real-
world learning that maximizes individual potential of each
student.

We will increase our capacity to respond to student
academic, emotional and social needs through partnerships
with caregivers and the community.

We align the budget with the district vision and the needs of
our students.

* First Name
* Last Name
Title

Email Address

Telephone

Request Information

Kristina
Ngai
Middle School STEM and Innovations Teacher

kngai@colchesterct.org

* Grants Program

* Title
Start Date
End Date

* Focus Area (Funding
Principle)

* Individual support?

* US based organization?

Groton Community Grants

Middle School STEM Robotics Education
08/29/2022
06/16/2023

Science and Math Education

Yes

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* City of Event

* State of Event

* Organization introduction

* Description

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Colchester

Our Innovations class is an elective course available to all
students at William J. Johnston Middle School in Colchester,
CT. It is a STEM based elective class that utilizes problem
solving and project based learning to teach concepts of
science, technology, engineering, art and math (STEAM). Our
Innovations class serves every sixth grade student in the
school as a required elective as well as half of the 7th and 8th
grade students in the school as a choice elective. The
Innovations classroom and lab is one of our largest learning
spaces in the school. The space also functions as a student
makerspace and experiment center where students can
come in to work on their own self directed projects and
approved experiments during their grade level workshop
hour. This class has allowed us to provide STEM learning and
STEAM based project opportunities to every student within
our middle school. When we created this class in 2016, our
school made a commitment to bring STEM education to all
students. As a result, we have seen a 19% increase in
students enrolling in STEM and technology education at the
high school level since the start of Innovations. We have also
seen a 40% increase in the number of female students
enrolling in STEM and Technology based elective classes at
the high school level, which we believe to be directly related
to the inclusive approach we use for our STEM programming
in our middle school Innovations and technology classes.
We've had students participate in and bring back awards
from the Connecticut State Invention Convention, The
Connecticut Science and Engineering Fair, and the National
Invention Convention. Innovations continues to grow as a
class and course selection that helps students of all
backgrounds access and discover a love of STEM.

Our goal with our Innovations program is to continue to
bring hands-on STEM education to all students. In our 8th
grade elective class, we incorporate advanced technologies
into our curriculum so that students aren't afraid to engage
with complex machines and STEM concepts. We would use
this grant to improve and extend our robotics curriculum so
that it integrates better STEM labs and concepts. Currently,
we have several robotics kits that are outdated and unable to
be programmed, While putting together the hardware can be
a worthwhile project in teamwork and basic mechanics, it's
missing the science and math needed to truly make it a STEM
based educational experience.

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* Program objectives (Nature
of Request)

* Project timelines

* Patient access to
treatment?

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We would like to purchase VEX robotics' smallest class set of
five robots plus one additional robot so that we can
accommodate students building and programming each
robot in groups of 4-5. We have selected these VEX kits as
they are able to link by bluetooth to student chromebooks
and can be used with a free online block coding software
called VEXcode that will allow our students in our Innovations
class as well as our 8th grade programming class to utilize
the robots, potentially using them for twice the number of
students. We are also choosing to use the VEX brand because
we will still be able to use and integrate the hardware from
our old robotics kits as supplemental and replacement parts
as the hardware is backwards compatible.

With this classroom kit also comes access to an entire library
of online STEM based labs that we can integrate into our
curriculum. These labs are provided free to the school and
would be available year after year with no subscription
necessary. Through this classroom set we would finally be
able to put the science and math into our STEM robotics
curriculum.

The program objectives of the WjJMS Innovations Class are to
introduce all students to opportunities in the areas of
science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Teaching
and reinforcing science and engineering practices aligned
with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).
Engaging students in 21st century skills such as teamwork,
critical thinking, problem solving, creativity and imagination.
Providing a venue and support for students pursuing STEM
projects that extend outside the boundaries of the science
classroom. Ensuring an educational environment where ali
students feel safe to explore and engage in STEM and real
world immersion problem solving. Cultivating curiosity,
interest, and appreciation for the sciences within all students.
We have seen a growing interest in robotics since the start of
our program in 2016. We plan to use this funding to
purchase robotics kits that will make programming and STEM
concepts in robotics accessible to all students.

We hope to purchase the robotics kits during the Summer of
2022 or soon after for immediate use during the 2022-23
school year and beyond.

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* Patient education?
* Health screening?

* Pfizer influence

* Sources of funding

Attachments

* Request Type

Currency

Request Amount
* Partial support?

Use of Funds

* Recognition of Pfizer's
Support

* Registrations or
admissions?

* Advertising?
* Recruiting booth?
* Value of acknowledgement

* Involvement of Pfizer
Employee(s)

* Federal Official Funding

Pfizer WRDM

No
No

| understand

We have a small amount of money from our yearly budget
for the Innovations STEM class dedicated to maintenance
and parts replacement for our robotics equipment (usually
$200 - $250 annually but not guaranteed). Outside of this
there are currently no funds set aside for robotics equipment
or for the robotics curriculum in our middle school.

¢ Budget History for Innovations.pdf (42.87 K), uploaded
by Kristina Ngai on 03/29/2022

Monetary Support

USD - US Dollar

4748.99 USD
Yes

We will use $3999.00 to purchase VEX Robotic's smallest
available classroom kit of five programmable robots and one
classroom competition playing field. We will purchase one
additional robot for $749 in order to provide enough robots
for students to work in groups of 4-5 within a class.

We will publish a public thank you statement in our district
wide newsletter, school newsletter, and teacher/school
twitter accounts.

No
No
none

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HCP Funding

Authorized Signatory

* Authorized Signatory Name
* Authorized Signatory E-mail
* Authorized Signatory Title

Additional Authorized
Signatory Name

Additional Authorized
Signatory E-mail

Additional Authorized
Signatory Title

Payment Information

Pfizer WRDM
No

Jeffrey E. Burt
jourt@colchesterct.org
Superintendent of Schools

Dr. Charles Hewes

chewes@colchesterct.org

Director of Teaching and Learning

* Different Payment Address

* Payment Confirmation

Certifications

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* Certification

| agree

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Applications are accepted through March of each calendar year. Applications
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