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Fort Bend ISD Receives $460,000 in Grants
Fort Bend ISD received $460,000 in grants from the Fort Bend Education Foundation.
SUGAR LAND, TX — The Fort Bend Education Foundation recently presented Fort Bend ISD with a check for nearly $460,000.
The funds will be used for grants for teachers and schools, professional development grants and new teacher grants. The foundation also funded two grants for FBISD's Tech Tank contest.
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One of the grants went to Lauren Gaspard, a science lab teacher at Carolyn and Vernon Madden Elementary, who plans to use the money to purchase a Sphero robotics bundle. Sphero is an app-enabled robotic ball that facilitates student-centered curricular acquisition of STEM principles. Students will learn how to code and engage in STEM investigations via collaborative learning lab activities.
The other grant went to Melissa Cohen-Nickels, a world cultures teacher at First Colony Middle School. Cohen-Nickels will use the money to purchase handheld gps navigators to teach students about cartography.
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