Empowering Students: Coding School Rovers to Plot Shapes

Woodstone Elementary School’s 5th-grade math teacher, Nancy Salinas, bought 30 TI-Nspire Graphing Calculators and TI-Innovator Rovers with a $12,605 NEEF grant. Using the calculators, students enter code to automate the robot to draw a two-dimensional shape on paper....

Imagination has No Limits at Woodstone Elementary

Woodstone Elementary has a special room called The Imagination Station, which a NEEF Grant funded. Students are encouraged to explore, play, and find their passions in the room, filled with opportunities for learning and creativity. Musical instruments, a puppet...

Learning is Fun at Wilshire Elementary

The children of Marlise Rodriguez’s 3rd grade class don’t even realize that they are learning and building life skills when putting the Learning is Fun grant in action. With a small NEEF grant of $413, Mrs. Rodriguez purchased a variety of board games, some of which...

Wilderness Oak Elementary School’s Peace Garden

On a beautiful fall day at Wilderness Oak Elementary School, a group of 5th graders buzzed around the Peace Garden. Working together, they cleaned up the garden area by pulling weeds. Then they dug and planted drought-tolerant perennials and shrubs. “We’re having a...