MANSFIELD – CenturyLink, Inc. announced the local winners of the CenturyLink Clarke M. Williams Foundation’s Teachers and Technology grant program. The program, which has been offered since 2008, awards grants of up to $5,000 to schools in CenturyLink’s local service areas on behalf of teachers who have developed specific plans to innovatively implement technology in their classrooms.
“The winning teachers’ grant applications were inspirational. They demonstrated creative teaching techniques that would be used to assist students in fully understanding subject matter, often times using hands-on learning,” said Mike Brill, CenturyLink’s vice president of operations for Ohio. “We are pleased to be able to help these passionate educators expose their students to science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) concepts in their daily school lives.”
Across the United States, more than 1,000 grant applications were submitted and 314 were awarded. Grants were selected based on the impact they will have on students in the classroom and the overall innovation of the project. Local grantees included:
• Stingel Elementary was awarded more than $8,900. One of the grants will be used to purchase additional iPads for a classroom. These iPads will be used across a variety of subjects and allow more users online at the same time with their individual device. The other grant dollars will be used to purchase new handheld tablets and sensors that will give students real-time data they can use in their plant studies. Teachers Michelle Laymon and Mark Johnson submitted the projects.
• Richland Academy School of Excellence was awarded $5,000 to purchase state-of-the-art audio and visual equipment, allowing the students to present and connect with classrooms and teachers around the world. Teacher Dan Jones submitted the project.
• Madison Middle School was awarded nearly $3,300 to purchase Chromebooks to allow teachers to develop an online classroom environment using Google Classroom on Chromebooks. Teacher Lynn Scott submitted the project.
