2024- 2025 Funded Grants
2024- 2025 Funded Grants
Modinatu Amuda, Applied Technology Center
Hands-On Computing: Micro:bit Innovation Project
Abstract concepts will become tangible, interactive experiences as students in the Fundamentals of Computing class at the ATC use Micro:bit devices. These devices will cultivate SC Profile of a Graduate skills, like self-direction and innovation.
Cheyenne Bell, Applied Technology Center
Clover Dairy Cattle Show Team
The Applied Technology Center’s Dairy Cattle Show Team will be racking up blue ribbons in no time after receiving supplies to enhance their ability to show dairy cattle. Harnesses, brushes, clippers, combs and conditioner are just some of the items that will enhance the competitiveness of the FFA’s entries in various contests.
Beth Williams, Ninth Grade Campus
Science Learning Centers
Science Learning Centers are coming to Ninth Grade Campus Physical Science classes. These centers will engage students in various scientific activities after they complete class assignments
Pauline Childs and Molly Baker
Griggs Road Elementary Garden Beautification
The Montessori classroom at Griggs Road has relocated in the building and is no longer close to the garden space they previously used for the lessons about nature prescribed by the Montessori model. The funds provided by this grant will allow the Montessori program to create a new garden adjacent to their new classroom location.
Jill Christenberry, Madelyn Wyrick and Katie Hurley,
Bethany Elementary Zoo Phonics Fun!
The Kindergarten Team at Bethany Elementary joined forces to request an expansion of the Zoo Phonics program to help their students learn letters, letter sounds and letter shapes through a multi-sensory approach.
Erin Crist
Griggs Road Elementary Imagine the Possibilities with STEM Bins
Students will gain creativity, problem solving, communication and abstract thinking skills as they put down their iPads for a bit and engage with STEM bins. The binds will feature various construction tiles, blocks and puzzles to engage students’ fine motor skills.
Lauren Demarest
Kinard Elementary Making Sense of the World
Lauren Demarest will create sensory bins to allow her kindergarten students to explore the world by using their five senses and to re-engage their tactile imagination. The experience will enhance vocabulary development and help them understand sensory disorders.
Laura Falls
Bethany Elementary Empowering Students with 3D Printing
Gifted and Talented students at Bethany Elementary will become creators and innovators when they produce tangible solutions to problems with 3D printing technology.
Kailey Galloway, Clover High School
Increased Access to Literacy for Adolescents with Severe and Profound Disabilities
Books adapted to the specific learning levels of students in the Multi-Category 3 classroom will be purchased with this grant. Students are expected to gain increased functional communication skills,engage in positive relationships and improve their overall literacy by interacting with these texts.
Jacquelyn George
Crowders Creek Elementary Laser Focused on Cutting Edge Innovative Learning
A laser engraving tool will be added to the Crowders Creek Innovation Lab to support the STEM curriculum.
Elizabeth Gibson
Ninth Grade Campus High in Plain Sight
The signs of drug use and abuse are often in plain sight, yet students and their parents may not be aware of them. The Ninth Grade Campus will soon create a space that looks like the typical teenager’s bedroom at home to demonstrate how typical household items related to drug and tobacco use can be easily overlooked. This space will be available during parent engagement activities and be used as a counseling tool when students are in the disciplinary process.
Niki Goodale
Oakridge Elementary
Speech Therapy Themed Subscription Boxes
Students receiving speech therapy will work on phonological and phonemic awareness, articulation and semantics to grow their receptive and expressive language skills by using themed subscription box activities that will be delivered throughout the school year.
Blair Jackson, Randi Sullivan, Abigail Cameron and Brooke Maxwell, Griggs Road Elementary
Mastering Math: Why Fact Fluency Matters with Reflex
Interactive math-based games will help students master math facts as they begin using this new online software.
John Green
Ninth Grade Campus
Inaugural Ninth Grade Campus Shakespeare Festival
“To be, or not to be…” The language of the Bard will come alive on the Ninth Grade Campus as the school hosts its first Shakespeare Festival. Various speakers and performers will bring to life the poetry and pageantry of the playwright’s greatest works.
Morgan Kennedy
Crowders Creek Elementary Special Education Visualization Station
This grant will enhance the visual experience in special education classrooms through the creation of colorful visual aids that are encased in heavier lamination pouches for longer life when used regularly.
Carla Ketchum and Rhonda Tyler
Crowders Creek Elementary
Puppets, Stage and Sound Machine for Music
Some children are nervous about performing in front of an audience. One way to help them overcome this anxiety is by using puppets. Carla Ketchum and Rhonda Tyler of Crowders Creek Elementary will use their grant from Clover LEAF to create a puppeteering company in which students will write and perform puppet shows about important topics affecting their peers.
Shelton Kimble and Andrew Cather
Academies of Clover Community Impact Podcast
Students in the Impact Academy at the Academies of Clover will read a book about how access to community resources improves the resiliency of youth. They will then research agencies in their own community and create a podcast that promotes those agencies to others who may benefit from their services.
Virginia Mayberry
Clover Middle School
Exploring Green Energy with Snap Circuits
Hands-on learning with snap circuits will enrich the project-based learning in Gateway to Technology classes at Clover Middle School. These devices will be used in the curriculum unit on green energy.
Erica Niemann
Oakridge Elementary | Braille Books Galore
This grant will provide a collection of dual vision books to Oakridge Elementary. The books will contain both braille type and printed text. The goal is to support readers who use Braille, while interesting students without a vision impairment to learn more about Braille.
Deanna Pauley
Clover Middle School Flight Write Bingo
Nonfiction reading is a critical life skill, yet schools sometimes struggle to provide a wide variety of high-interest nonfiction reading materials for students. This grant provides those reading materials and engages students in a fun way of tracking their progress through them.
Keisha Pendergrass
Griggs Road Elementary The Sight and Sound of Steel Drums
The sounds of the Caribbean will float through the hallways of Griggs Road Elementary as students learn to play steel drums. Students will learn about the history of Calypso music and will acquire skills as percussionists.
Natalie Randolph
Crowders Creek Elementary | Design, Print, Inspire
STEM education at Crowders Creek will be enhanced when a 3D printer is installed in the Innovation Lab. Students will design, prototype and produce physical models as they learn critical engineering skills
Lee Sykes, Krystal Stack and Jessica Bennett
Oakridge Middle School | Lego Education BricQ Motion Box
Science students at Oakridge Middle will gain a better understanding of Newton’s Laws of Motion and other forces by using Lego BricQ Education boxes.
Ta’China Williams
Clover Middle School | Astronomy Club
They are aiming for the stars at Clover Middle School by launching an Astronomy Club. This grant will provide telescopes, binoculars, star charts and other materials to open a new frontier for CMS students.
