Angleton Robotics: Out Driving the Competition - $2985.00
- This project is the next iteration of global, competitive robot games. Think: Battle Bots meets Formula 1 pit stops! Every year FIRST robotics, the organization responsible for the international high school robotics competition, creates a new team based game (3 robots v 3 robots) where teams work together to complete the objectives of the game in order to win ranking points. Each year the game is different, yielding dramatically varied robotic creations year after year. Past competition games included elements of traversing parallel bars, balancing three robots on a platform, shooting oversized tennis balls, and climbing up a rope, while hauling another robot…just to name a few. Regardless of the game format, one truth remains constant: speed and maneuverability win games. Until the last three years, most teams could create a highly competitive robot using a simple six wheeled, tank style driving system. That approach has since become obsolete with the introduction and implementation of powerful omni directional wheel modules dubbed “swerve drive.” While previously too expensive to even consider, costs have dropped and allowed the vast majority of veteran teams to make this investment. Teams from Sweeny, Pearland, and Houston all already have these modules. Essentially, if you wish your team to be competitive, you have to have swerve drive. For this reason, we are seeking funding for five swerve drive modules. Without this system, our hopes of regularly competing at the state championship, as we did in 2023, and/or the world championship will be essentially zero. Please consider funding our goal of being regular state competitors!
  
  - Benjamin Ashby AHS Robotics
Learning Together: Growing Leaders Through STEM - $2,999.43
- STEM projects provide unique opportunities for students to practice critical thinking, problem-solving, and collaboration, amongst other skills. Like other parts of elementary education, STEM is intended to give students a solid foundation for future learning. This project would allow students the opportunity to engage, explore, explain, elaborate, and evaluate different STEM projects while collaborating with their peers. Along with increasing their academic knowledge, they will be developing lifelong skills such as communication, problem-solving, working with others, self-esteem, decision-making, creativity, and more through STEM learning.
  
  - Jessica Lorenz & Lacey Sebesta at Rancho Isabella Elementary
Future City - $600
- Future City is a project-based learning program where students in 6-8th grade imagine, research, design, and build cities of the future. Each year, the Future City Competition poses a real-world question for student teams to answer while using the engineering design process. This year’s question or design challenge is to create a city completely powered by electricity generated from sources that keep both citizens and the environment safe and healthy. The grant funds will be used to help start up this new project.
  
  - Julia Haskins at Angleton Junior High
Calming Kits - $1,635
- Calming Kits aims to provide widely used tools, such as stress balls, squishy toys, or fidget spinners, to teachers as a resource to provide to students. These objects help students manage their emotions and reduce anxiety or restlessness. By providing an outlet for excess energy, fidgets can improve focus and attention, leading to enhanced concentration during class and better academic performance. Calming fidgets can create a more inclusive environment, benefiting students with attention disorders, sensory processing challenges, or anxiety-related conditions. Their use promotes self-regulation and self-awareness, as students learn to identify their emotions and use the fidgets as coping tools.
  
  - Lauren Taylor at Southside Elementary
Simple Machines STEM Build - $1,700
- While learning about simple and compound machines, the students have varying levels of complex, simple and compound machines that are built. Once built, they demonstrate their build, what machines are included and how these are beneficial to everyday life and careers.
  
  - Terra Curtright at Angleton High School

2023 Grants for Great Ideas Awards
1. Building Healthy Bodies: Strength & Conditioning Basics - $9,271.18
  - This grant project is for fitness equipment that would benefit all elementary students in AISD. By teaching our elementary students basic fundamentals of strength and conditioning, as well as how to properly use equipment they will see in the weight rooms at junior high and high school, we can support the junior high and high school PE and Athletics programs. Our elementary PE department would vertically align our instruction and technique with junior high and high school instruction by working collaboratively with coaches at all levels.
    
    - Tiffany Melancon & All District PE Instructors
2. Multiple-Disciplinary Studies In Elementary Science - $4,580.08
  - Students will be provided with the opportunity to read books to enhance their knowledge and learning of a variety of science and STEM concepts through the school’s library. The addition to the school’s library will furnish students with over 200 books specifically aligned with the Science and ELAR TEKS. The project will focus on providing an assortment of books about life science covering topics such as ecosystems, animals, adaptations, and more. Our student’s curiosity will be sparked through the books, making them eager to ask questions, connect concepts from multiple subjects, and capture their love of science while reading.
    
    - Jessica Lorenz at Rancho Isabella Elementary

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