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Technology Grants Available For K-12 Teachers

WFAE | By Gwendolyn Glenn
Published November 13, 2017 at 11:47 AM EST
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The Beacon technology blog is offering k-12 teachers a chance to compete for six grants that they can use to buy supplies and materials for technological-related classroom instruction. The grant awards range from $500 to $1,000.

Applicants will have to submit original lesson plans and homework assignments that encourage and require students to use technology. The submissions will be judged on creativity and opportunities for hands-on experiences for students in various subject areas and means to measure how well the students are comprehending the technology concepts.

All applications must be submitted before midnight on Dec. 9. Winners will be announced on or after Jan. 8 on The Beacon and Fios.Verizon.com websites. The awards are funded by Fios’ operator, Internet Service Providers, LLC.
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Gwendolyn Glenn
Gwendolyn is an award-winning journalist who has covered a broad range of stories on the local and national levels. Her experience includes producing on-air reports for National Public Radio and she worked full-time as a producer for NPR’s All Things Considered news program for five years. She worked for several years as an on-air contract reporter for CNN in Atlanta and worked in print as a reporter for the Baltimore Sun Media Group, The Washington Post and covered Congress and various federal agencies for the Daily Environment Report and Real Estate Finance Today. Glenn has won awards for her reports from the Maryland-DC-Delaware Press Association, SNA and the first-place radio award from the National Association of Black Journalists.
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