Grants

The Education Foundation relies on the generous support of individuals, families, organizations, and businesses to provide the funding required for these grants. We sincerely thank the supporters of the fundraising events.

 

Awarded March 2011:

$450 to Davenport Kindergarten to create "Kindergarten Readiness Bags"

The "Kindergarten Readiness Bag" has proven to be a successful tool since 2007. It has provided families with the opportunity to engage in activities that will assist students to get "academically" ready for Kindergarten. Davenport will be asking for the assistance from high school students and/or school organizations to assist in assembling the Readiness Bags. Last year over 20 high school students volunteered.

$955 to Davenport First Grade to purchase a Leapster Explorer 1st Grade Mobile Learning Center.

The Leapster Explorer encourages students to learn from e-Books, videos, and on-line skill builders. Many of our students are familiar with the Leap Frog videos used in Kindergarten. These videos, which are played during snack time, support the students' letter recognition, vocabulary, and phonemic awareness skills.

$205 to Kingston Elementary Physical Education for 10 Pedometers.

Prior experience using the pedometers has shown that the pedometers motivate students to move. Most students inquire about the steps they achieved the previous day with the desire to improve on each subsequent opportunity. Pedometer usage can also be implemented as a collegial team activity. The students are very excited to use a technological tool out of the ordinary, to document improvement and especially in Physical Education where tools are not quite as ordinary as in the core classroom. These pedometers will augment ones presently in use. Additional units are needed to support larger class sizes, accommodate normal wear and tear on the pedometers, and adjust to district budget constraints.

$1800 to Genoa-Kingston High School Drama Department for Wireless microphones.

This grant will provide funding for 4 Audio Technica ATW 3110B Transmitter/Receivers and 4 Countryman B3 microphones.The Genoa-Kingston Drama Department is an extra-curricular group that strives to provide educational theater opportunities in both on stage and technical capacities. The drama department and International Thespian Society Troupe #867 have worked hard to provide a quality theatrical experience for both the students involved in our fall and spring productions as well as for our audience. This equipment will allow more performers to be heard clearly on stage in future productions.

$1500 to Genoa-Kingston High School Chorus Department to purchase an additional 34 choral stoles.

The Education Foundation provided a grant for the purchase of 23 choral stoles last year. The stoles have been used by the chamber chorus at several events and were worn by our two IMEA All-State Honors Chorus members. This grant will outfit all of our chorus students in stoles with their choral robes next year.

 

 

 

Awarded for the 2009 - 2010 school year:

$350 to Davenport Kindergarten for for materials to construct a “Kindergarten Readiness Bag” to give to each child and his/her family at Spring Kindergarten Registration. The Kindergarten Readiness Bag" has proven to be a successful tool the past two years. It has provided families with the opportunity to engage in activities that will assist students to get "academically" ready for Kindergarten. Many of the materials can be used in the home throughout their kindergarten year.

$1000 to Davenport First Grade to purchase reading books. This years grant will provide 16 copies of each book to enable every teacher to have a collection within their classroom. This years titles include: Bad Dog, Bear Snores, Boy Who Loved Words, Dear Mr. Blueberry, Dog Team, Dot, Duck on a Bike, I Want an Iguana, If Dogs were Dinosaurs, If You Give a Pig a Pancake, Hello Ocean and Giant Panda. The entire collection consists of 160 trade books.

$240 to Kingston Elementary Third Grade for three sets of theatre scripts. Each set includes 16 level appropriate scripts allowing for differentiated reading. The scripts are designed for 4 readers at a time with each copy having a different characters part highlighted so it is easy for the students to follow along. Each script focuses on a different literary genre from historical fiction to mystery to adventure. As students read and practice each script they will build oral skills, fluency and comprehension.

$863 to K-5 Physical Education for 30 Robic Pulse Heart Monitors. The heart rate monitors will allow students to use technology while engaging in fitness activities.

The students in K-5 PE would be working toward the following performance goals:

  • Engaging in physical activity that causes increased heart rate
  • Describe immediate effects of physical activity on the body
  • Monitor individual heart rate before, during, and after physical activity with the use of technology
  • Set personal health-related fitness goals.

$1500 to Middle School Science for additional technology hardware for the eighteen sections of Life, Earth, and Physical Science that are being taught by this Department. Items may include satellite notebook computers, LCD projectors, presentation carts and computer speaker systems.

$599 to Middle School Music for a Yamaha P855 Contemporary Digital Piano. The digital piano will allow the jazz band to perform on stage and be helpful to piano accompanists who rehearse with the students for solo and ensemble.

$385 to High School Science for class sets of various microscope slides of tissues, mitosis, biological diversity, and protists. The slides will supplement lessons with hands-on activities where students are actively investigating their world around them.

Slides in this collection will include:

  • Muscle Types
  • Adult Skin, Unpigmented
  • Bone Development
  • Human Blood
  • Basic Protist Survey Set
  • Onion Mitosis
  • Biological Diversity

$1495 to Genoa-Kingston Academic Bowl Team for a 10-Player "Slam-in" wireless buzzer system. Each year, students who rank in the top of their class compete with content-based trivia against other schools. Each school is required to bring a buzzer system to each meet. The new buzzer will allow our students to compete with other districts and proudly represent the Genoa-Kingston School District.

$700 to Genoa-Kingston High School Drama Department for 2 Wireless Headset Microphones. This grant will continue to upgrade the sound equipment necessary for stage performance and will enhance the audience's enjoyment of the shows.

$1000 to Genoa-Kingston High School Music Department to partially fund the purchase of choral stoles to match the existing choir robes. The robes, purchased between 1993-1995 lack any personalized touch distinguishing them from other school choir robes. Most schools wear stoles with their robes, most robes, including ours, are meant to be worn with stoles. These stoles tastefully featuring our school colors will make an attractive addition to our choral robes worn at concerts, the Big Northern Music Festival, and the All-State Chorus.

 

 

 

Awarded for the 2008 - 2009 school year:

$1150 to Davenport Kindergarten for materials to construct 165 Kindergarten Readiness Bags. The bags are provided to the parents at the March pre-registration. The materials include a variety of age appropriate educational activities that parents can explore with their children prior to the beginning of the school year.

$1750 to Davenport First Grade to purchase reading books for each of the seven classrooms. Davenport is piloting a new reading program called Guided Reading and Silent Sustained Reading (SSR). The addition of these books will provide more variety of reading materials in each room at each students reading level.

$800 to Kingston Elementary Second Grade for eight combination DVD/VCR players. These players will provide a technology bridge enabling teachers to present older but relevant material along with the newer material.

$1700 to Genoa Elementary Fourth Grade for an advanced visual projection system. The system will include an Elmo digital presenter, a NEC projector and a presentation cart. The Elmo digital Presenter is an innovative teaching tool that promotes sharing student responses, which in turn forces each learner into an interactive engaged learner.

$700 to Genoa Elementary Fifth Grade for an Elmo digital presenter.

$394 to Genoa Elementary Speech and Language for a Canon Flash Memory Digital Camcorder. Research has shown that video is a powerful tool to use for student feedback and self evaluation and the camcorder will help facilitate this type of instruction.

$1400 to Genoa-Kingston Middle School for two Elmo digital presenters.

$1700 to Genoa-Kingston High School Biology for an advanced visual projection system. The system will include an Elmo digital presenter, a NEC projector and a presentation cart. This system will help biology students grasp the size of items such as cells, chromosomes, organelles, villi of the small intestine and so on. This would greatly improve student comprehension in many areas of the science curriculum where the concepts seem to be a bit abstract.

$250 to Genoa-Kingston High School Business Department for a digital camera. The camera will be used for the Desktop Publishing, Multimedia, and Web Design classes.

$4200 to Genoa-Kingston High School for a Smart Board. The SmartBoard, projector, laptop computer, and presentation cart would be a mobile unit for classroom use primarily in the 200 wing of the high school making it available to the Family & Consumer Sciences, Business, Science, and Fine Arts Departments.

$1890 to Genoa-Kingston High School Drama Departments for five wireless headset microphones. The wireless microphones are designed for stage performance and will bolster the technical capabilities of the Genoa-Kingston Auditorium, as well as maximize the theater experience of performer and audience member alike.

$1900 to Genoa-Kingston High School Industrial Technology Department for Computer-aided design software. Solidworks 3-D for Advanced Drafting, Design, and Production is becoming the standard for many colleges, universities, and professionals. This license for 20 stations will add capability and is also compatible with the departments existing 2-D AutoCad software.

 

 

 

Awarded for the 2007 - 2008 school year:

$509 to Davenport Early Childhood Program for an assortment of computer equipment and software for two work stations. The workstations will assist the students to meet reading and fluency benchmarks.

$2900 to Davenport Kindergarten for an advanced visual projection system. The system will include an Elmo digital presenter, a NEC projector, notebook computer and a presentation cart. The Elmo will be used for displaying math manipulatives, authentic items, and documents. It will also be used to share and save students work; as well as guided reading and following step-by-step directions.

$1000 to Davenport Kindergarten for materials to construct a "Kindergarten Readiness Bag" to give to each child at the March pre-registration. The focus of the bag is to provide parents with a variety of age appropriate activities and materials that parents could explore with their child prior to the beginning of the school year.

$210 to Davenport First Grade for Solar System Mobiles. The mobiles have an entire set of planets that orbit around a lighted sun and include a CD that take students on an audio tour of the solar system.

$3000 to Kingston Second and Third Grade Music for a Yamaha CLP-240 Digital Piano and Keyboard. The CLP-240 brings stylish looks and professional sound together in an instrument that is also portable and easy to use. The piano will be used for music instruction and performances.

$370 to Kingston Second and Third Grade Physical Education for paddles, balls and nets.  This equipment will provide an opportunity to learn the elements of teamwork (communication, decision making, cooperation, and leadership) and how to adjust individual needs to team needs.  The paddle, ball and net lessons will also simulate a variety of games that can be lifelong activities, such as ping-pong, tennis, and racquetball.

$1900 to Kingston Third Grade for an Elmo digital presenter, a NEC projector and a presentation cart. The advanced presentation system enables students to clearly see what is being displayed and to share a variety of reports, art work, and written responses. Research shows that stimulating visual displays are easily grasped, retained and absorbed by students.

$2000 to Genoa-Kingston Middle School for a Bluetooth ready SmartBoard. This will be the second SmartBoard for GKMS and will be used on the second floor providing access to the sixth grade team and the entire science department. This grant was made possible with matching funds from the Genoa-Kingston United Way.

$696 to Genoa-Kingston Middle School 7th Grade Language Arts/Reading for a public address system. Some of the lessons planned include a simulated radio broadcast, reading stories and poetry aloud and presenting reports. This equipment will give students many opportunities to practice the skills necessary to become confident and successful in public speaking.

$1200 to Genoa-Kingston Middle School Visual Arts Department for a LCD projector and cart. The projector will be used to show practical and historic examples of art work to students during lectures and demonstrations.

$200 to Genoa-Kingston High School Computer Club for 30 Velleman MK101 Electronic Heart kits. These kits require that the students learn to solder resistors, capacitors and LED's to a small heart shaped circuit board.

 

 

 

Awarded for the 2006 - 2007 school year:

$521 to Davenport kindergarten for 9 sets of math manipulative's. Each set features 252 bugs, worms, and frogs to sort by color, shape and size, an activity book, sorting tray and tackle box for easy storage.

$2810 to Davenport first grade for an advanced visual projection system. The system will include an Elmo digital presenter, an NEC projector, notebook computer and a presentation cart. Unlike an overhead projector, the Elmo can project any type of printed document, or 3-D object. It can even display microscope slides in the microscopic viewing mode.

$1415 to Kingston second grade for Exploring Where and Why by Nystorm. In this hands-on program, students explore the community as a whole, with emphasis on goods & services, producers & consumers, government, economics, and geography. The program includes globes, desk maps, wall maps, relief models, atlases, markers, a teacher guide, CDROM and a mobile cart.

$2110 to Kingston third grade for a Multi-Media LCD projector, laptop computer and presentation cart. These will enable the teachers to display graphically enhanced lessons, and make it easier for the students to view the lessons.

$668 to Kingston second and third grade music for a Bass Metallophone and a Soprano Metallophone. These instruments made by Suzuki Orff are sturdy and timeless. The instruments help teach melodic and rhythmic accompaniment, note reading and ensemble instrument playing. Children also love to play them.

$296 to Kingston second and third grade physical education for Ages Golf equipment. This equipment not only introduces the students to golf but teaches physical fitness, hand-eye coordination, etiquette and math skills. The golf unit will also provide support in developing core values such as being honest, positive, and most importantly a team player.

$856 to the Genoa Elementary fourth grade for books which will supplement the Social Studies and Language arts curriculum. Through these books the students have the opportunity to learn about the history and people of each region as these books travel through time.

$700 to Genoa Elementary fifth grade for an Elmo Visual Presenter, which will allow teachers (as well as students) to instantly project any material for classroom viewing. The visual presenter is a tool that promotes instantly sharing student responses which in turn promotes student engagement. Students of all levels gain knowledge and confidence by having to present their work in front of the class.

$2110 to Genoa-Kingston Middle School for a multi-media LCD projector, laptop computer, and presentation cart. The use of an LCD projector will allow them to turn a teacher-centered activity such as lecturing or taking notes into a dynamic, participative experience. This projection system will be used primarily in Reading, Language Arts, and Math.

$196 to Genoa-Kingston High School Science Department for six Aneroid Sphygmomanometers. Students will develop a better understanding of the mechanics of the circulatory system; specifically how the blood pressure readings provide information about the condition of the arteries.

$3000 to the Genoa-Kingston High School Math Department for a LCD projector, a laptop computer, and a presentation cart. This technology will help them project lessons, show graphical changes that relate to transformations of equations and functions, and project sample problems. They will also be able to maximize the use of their software programs: Geometer’s Sketch Pad and TI SmartView.

$250 to Genoa-Kingston High School Computer Club for a Mindstorm Robot Kit with an advanced processor and sophisticated sensors. Kits like the Mindstorm will help the students learn about robotics and programming. Additionally, after the students have the chance to build and work with the Mindstorm, they would like to take it to the Elementary Schools to demonstrate it’s abilities to younger students.

$1600 to the Genoa-Kingston High School Journalism Department for an iMac computer running Adobe Creative Suite 2 software. This computer will help the growing need of the High Schools yearbook/newspaper staff to produce quality publications.