Grants Awarded
Grant Recipient School: Oakmont Regional High School
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Vex Computer Upgrade
A grant that paid for upgrades to the Vex Robotics computer modules.
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Set Your Course Friends Club
Jack Dube Memorial Award Winner provided handbooks and supplies to help build a curriculum for the Oakmont Friend’s Club, Oakmont’s largest club. The Friends Club mission is to ensure social connections and the establishment of friendships among students at Oakmont to promote social and emotional well-being of all students at Oakmont.
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Oakmonitor Online
Provided the technology for the students at Oakmont to publish the school’s newspaper in an online format.
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French National Honor Society
Established Oakmont’s first chapter of the French National Honor Society.
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Nucleic Acid and Protein Modeling
The most difficult concepts for students in science (especially biology) are often the abstract cellular processes that occur at the molecular level. Manipulatives are powerful concrete “bridges” that aide students in understanding abstract concepts. The MIT Edgerton Center has recently developed a set of DNA, RNA and protein models that can be manipulated so that…MORE
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Foreign Language Immersion Day
A continuation of the Foreign Language Immersion Day program.
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iPads for English Language Learning (ELL)
The Ash-West ELL program is small but integral in meeting the needs of students whose home language is not English. The ELL population represents the largest growing student population nation-wide, a trend that is seen in Ash-West. Currently there are 54 ELLs district-wide. This population is taught in small groups. Having an iPad is an…MORE
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CAD Supplies
This grant was a continuation of the foundation’s support of the Oakmont Technology and Engineering department’s CAD program.
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Music Therapy for Oasis Students
This program provided music production software, a keyboard and headphones to teach students the art and science of music production.
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GoPro for Science Labs
A combined grant where two science teachers acquired enough Go Pro cameras to supply one camera per lab table. The six stations allowed for the entire lab to use the cameras during a lab exercise.