Ready to transform your teaching and inspire your students? Did you see something cool at our 2024 Fall Conference that you want to implement in your school or classroom? Apply for a 2025 MassCUE Grant!
These grants offer up to $3,000 to support innovative technology projects that enhance learning experiences for all. Whether you're looking to introduce a new piece of software, purchase hardware to support innovative learning or fund professional development, a MassCUE grant can help you achieve your goals.
WHO CAN APPLY:
Any eligible MassCUE member is encouraged to submit a proposal. Need a membership? Head on over to the membership section of our website.
HOW TO APPLY:
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- Deadline: January 10, 2025 (1/10/2025)
- Questions: Contact info@masscue.org with inquiries
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Grants: Usable Math Generates Math and Design Learning
Posted on July 21, 2023READ MOREMassCUE Grant Funding in Action Usable Math Generates Math and Design Learning for Elementary Students by Sharon A. Edwards, Robert W. Maloy, Sai Gattupalli, Marguerite Rancourt Since February 2023, with support from a MassCUE Classroom Grant, the Usable Math project team from the University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Education in partnership with a […]
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2023 Classroom Grant Recipients
Posted on July 5, 2023READ MORECongratulations to our 2023 Grant Recipients MassCUE is pleased to announce the grant recipients for 2023. These grants are intended to provide recipients with an opportunity to bring new innovative ideas into their classrooms. MassCUE would like to thank everyone who submitted a proposal and congratulate the winning applicants from so many schools around the […]
Teri DeFilippo | WES Student Podcast | Wareham Public Schools |
James Gorman | Student-Led Teaching Aid Creation: Empowering Learners through Laser Cutting | Mendon-Upton Regional High School |
Ingrid Gustafson | Access to Lego Robotics for Elementary Coders | Cambridge Public Schools |
Heather Hannon | Empowering Young Minds through STEAM: Makey Makey Integration with Scratch and Interactive Reflections | Northbridge Public Schools |
Jeremy Mularella | Reaching New Heights with Drones | Shrewsbury Public Schools</span> |
NAME | GRANT | DISTRICT |
Charlotte Corbett | Hands-On Learning for Hands-On Need | Boston Public Schools |
Deanna Magill | Cybersecurity in Action | Milton Public Schools |
Sara Doherty | "Build. Art. Code. Play" with Kibo for Grades K-1 -- a STEM Experience | Milton Public Schools |
Amanda Gallerani | Hydroponics at Taft | Uxbridge |
Edward Weissman | Robotic Integration for Middle School | Seekonk |
Jessica Barrett | Mix it Up with Marty in the Makerspace | Old Rochester Regional |
Helen Mitchell | Dartmouth Middle School -- Creation and Innovation Media Lab | Dartmouth Public Schools |
Kismet Fair | Be Our Sphero | Worcester Public Schools |
Sharon A. Edwards | Usable Math: Online Problem Solving for Young Learners | University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Education |
Jane Kent | Creating 3D from a 2D World | Carver Public Schools |
Anne Valluzzi | Rooted in Robotics | Millis Public Schools |
NAME | GRANT | SCHOOL |
Katie Cerasale-Messina | Cueing up our Robot Family: Expanding our Programming and Robotic Experience with Cue Robots and Accessories | Beachmont Veterans Memorial School and SeaCoast High School, Revere |
Jennifer Ashley | TechStyles | Somerset Berkley Regional High School, Somerset |
Deborah Kreiser-Francis | Capping it Off: iPads and a Synergy of Library, Technology, and SEL Skills | Community Elementary School, North Attleborough |
Deb Hobday | Going Digital for an Invention Convention | Cape Cod Academy, Osterville |
Brandon Hall | Pembroke HS MakerSpace Startup | Pembroke High School, Pembroke |
Beth Bellone | Music Tech Program and iPad Ensemble | The New England Center for Children, Southborough |
Tammy Green | Connecting Gateway to Computer Programming with Makey Makey | Joseph Case Junior High School, Swansea |
NAME | GRANT | DISTRICT |
Anthony Amitrano | Whitin Works Lab | Northbridge Public Schools |
Emily Goodwin | Dartmouth is Popping with Podcasts!: Media & Tech to Support Collaborative & Reflective Learning | Dartmouth Public Schools |
Michael Dreesen | X-Carve the Future | Woburn Public Schools |
Barbara Murray | Doherty Middle School Graduation Video | Andover Public Schools |
Jennifer Skowronek | iMac = Movie Editing for Everyone | Norton Public Schools |
Kyle Kirshenbaum | Physical Computing with Arduino boards | North Attleborough Public Schools |
Brenda Doucette | Creating Engaged Students with Digital Photography | North Attleborough Public Schools |
Elana Milstein | Podcasting in the MS Classroom | Canton Public Schools |
Elisabeth Arthur | De*Coding and En*Coding | Weymouth Public Schools |
NAME | GRANT | DISTRICT |
Christina Foley | Around the World in 180 School Days: Taking Small Town Students to the Corners of the World | Millbury Public Schools |
Sandra Bleecker | Connecting Computer Science Concepts across ASL, English and Creative Physical Computing | The Learning Center For The Deaf |
David Quinn | Cleared to Launch: Nipmuc Regional High School Takes the Global Space Balloon Challenge | Mendon-Upton Regional School District |
Victoria Cameron | Labo in the STEAM Lab | East Bridgewater Public Schools |
Lisa Felan | Kindergarten Reading, Response and Reflection | Andover Public Schools |
Jessica Lazarus | 3D Printing & Product Design | Pembroke Public Schools |
Ellen Gammel | Collaborative Technology Learning Station | Montachusett Regional Vocational Technical School |
Elizabeth Marchetti | Finding the best Root through discovery! | Georgetown Public Schools |
Jennifer St. Michel | Making Augmented Reality a Reality | Seekonk Public Schools |
Rachel Maguire | The Digital Toolkit! Art for Today's Market | Silver Lake Regional School District |
Meagan Martin | Flipping For iPads | Quabbin Regional School District |
Amanda Hough | Sparking Student Global Awareness through STEAM | Mashpee Public Schools |
Kevin Murphy | VR into History with the Oculus Rift | Frontier Regional School District |
Margo Bridges | Taking the Next Step with 3D Design | Norton Public Schools |
Patti Keller | G-Term Robotics in the Library | Grafton Public Schools |
Shanna Belenky | Robotics for All! | Canton Public Schools |
NAME | GRANT | DISTRICT |
Alexandra Caram | Books for Babies | Lynnfield Public Schools |
Darlease Monteiro | Show and Tell in Math Class | Global Learning Charter Public School |
Corey Mello | Using Technology to Individual Instruction | Southeastern Massachusetts Educational Collaborative |
Sterling Worrell | More Than Just VR Consumers: Creating Virtual Reality Art Coding to Learn | Hopkinton Public Schools |
Jenny Kostka | STEM/STEAM Coding & Engineering with Leogs WeDO 2.0 | Carver Public Schools |
Kris Jeffers | Slavery in the North: The Untold Story | Whitman-Hanson Regional School District |
Maria Sylvain | Coding and Video Production with iPads | Freetown Lakeville Regional School District |
Jen Frizzel | Protagonist Sphero Journey | Concord Public Schools |
Dawn Steber | Make It Mobile to Support Rural Schools | Nauset Public Schools |
Kimberly Florek | Putting the "A" into STEAM | Hampshire Regional Public School |
Tiffany Davis | Operation Welcome Mat | Ashburnham-Westminster Regional |
LeRoy Chi Wai Wong | SOARing with Drones in Education | Burlington Public School |
Catherine Porter | iPads Mean "I Can" in Elementary Classrooms | Swampscott Public Schools |
Tobey Eugenio | Building a Self e-STEAM Program | New Bedford Public Schools |
NAME | GRANT | DISTRICT |
Anne Brown | Ozbots in the Classroom | Dartmouth |
John Hefferman | We Do Science | Westhampton |
Linda St. Laurent | Make-ing Classroom Connections | Cardinal Spellman High School |
Mary Savares | Water on Earth | Northhampton |
Wendy Arnold | The Idea Lab | Melrose |
Christine Gniadek | Beehive Coding | Spencer/East Brookfield |
Jessica Harms | Digitilizing Backstage | Acton-Boxboro |
Kevin Madden | Lego Robotics After School | Sharon |
Linda Lonergan | Choose Your Own Adventure | Plymouth |
Kevin Sullivan | Lego Mindstorms | Walker School |
Brianne Killion | Library Makerspace | Norwood |
Mary Amrock | See the World Through Virtual Reality | North River Collaborative |
Lori J. Button | Cathedral Building with 3D Doodler | Spencer/East Brookfield |
NAME | GRANT SUMMARY |
Anne Sullivan | Anne is a 5th grade teacher and she requested 3 Lego Mindstorm robots and 12 Nexus Androd tablets so that her students can use the Scratch programming language and Code.org website lessons to have students learn about the design and engineering process. Fifth grade students will be able to select a real world problem of their choice to address, research, develop a prototype and present their solution idea at her school’s Annual Invention Convention in June 2016. Anne will share this project with her colleagues. |
Brandy Jackson |
Brandy is a middle school technology teacher. She requested a Printrbot Plus 3D printer, one iPad, 3D printer filaments, and other tech-related supplies to implement her project, Charms for Change: Using 3D Printing to Change the World. Eighth grade students will select an ecological problem to learn about, develop a public service video using an iPad to be shared on cable access and the school’s Youtube channel, use TinkerCad software to 3D print unique charms, and create business cards with QR codes to link the charms to the students’ videos. A Film Festival will be held to show the student videos and deliver the charms “to market”. Professional development on how to use and integrate 3D printing will be offered to her teaching colleagues. |
Brendan Doucette |
Brenda is a second grade teacher. She requested 10 Acer Cloudbook devices to implement a blended learning information center project, QR Codes for Innovative Learning and Differentiated Instruction in her classroom. Brenda wishes to address reading literacy and math literacy with differentiated lessons and learning pathways for her students using a blended learning station-rotation model. Second grade students will write book reviews that will be linked to QR codes that will be placed on the books for other students to select.To support differentiated math literacy, students will be able to view teacher-created math tutorials and progress at their own pace. Brenda will conduct professional development in her district to share how the use of QR codes can support innovative and differentiated models of teaching and learning. |
Corrine Brems and Gideon Gaudette |
Corinne is a curriuculum title 1 director and Gideon is an elementary school principal. They requested a Lulzbot Mini 3D printer, one Surface tablet, 2 SparkFun Pico Boards, and 3D printer filaments to support their school’s makerspace initiative. In support of the fourth grade National Park project and the fifth grade Historical Figure Wax Museum project, fourth and fifth grade students will use the Scratch programming software to create interactive games for their national park or chosen historical figure. Students will create and design a prop or accessory to illustrate their learning using the 3D printer. In a Showcase of Makerspaces in June 2016, students will present their projects to the community in a National Parks Tour and Wax Museum Night. |
Charlotte Corbett and Fiona Bennie | Charlotte is a technology specialist and Fiona is a science specialist. They requested 7 video cameras and one computer workstation. Middle school students at the Horace Mann School for the Deaf will use the video cameras to create stop-motion videos to capture and illustrate their learning about the science topics of density and heat transfer with hands-on demonstrations as well as provide claims, evidence and reasoning in response to critical questions of this integrated science and technology lesson unit. |
Christine Yeomans |
Christine is a fifth grade teacher. She requested a Lulzbot 3D printer and various printer filaments to support her project, the Amvet Mini-Entrepreneur Invention Convention. Fifth grade students will research past inventors, identify a problem or current need for solving, engage in problem-solving and protyping as well as create an advertisement for their product. Students will present their projects at a Mini-Entrepreneur Invention Convention to students and parents to “sell” their idea to the community. |
Carmella Hughes |
Carmella is an elementary school technology integration specialist. She requested a Beebots class bundle, a Make wonder Dash starter pack, 1 Kibo robot kit, and 2 Littlebits student kits to support her K-5 pilot project, Make It: Code and Create. Elementary students in grade K-5 will be introduced to coding in this STEM set of lesson units using code.org website resources and learn basic coding language in order to support collaboration and problem solving and the integration of STEM into ELA, math, science and social study classes at the elementary level. Carmella will work with teachers in a coaching model to provide support. |
June Kim and Colleagues |
une is a digital instructor. She requested 6 iPads to support her project, Using iPads to integrate the Arts into Social Studies. The title of the lesson unit is “Storytellers from the Pre-American Revolution Era“. In this lesson, eighth grade students will develop their knowledge of the causes of the American Revolution and the role of artists in 1763-1776 by studying historical events and analyzing the historical contexts of artworks. Students will illustrate and narrate events that caused the American Revolution and create storytelling movies using iPads. These videos will be presented at a parents’ coffee meeting to contribute the education of grade 8 students, their parents and other family members. |
Jean Marston | J
ean is an assistant principal. She requested a Flashforge Creator Pro 3D printer to support her project, Making Dopamine/Cocaine receptor binding visible and tactile with a 3D printer. In this biology lesson, high school students will learn about receptor binding. Educating students about the dangers of using drugs is difficult. The words they hear describe the chemical substances and the actions taken within the brain at the cellular and molecular levels. The meaning made from these words, pictures and videos is shallow. How can that meaning become transformative? By creating the bio-molecular structures of neurons, dopamine, cocaine and receptors with a 3-D printer, students can fit the pieces together themselves. The structures fit together like puzzle pieces, so the students will see and feel first-hand the match in the binding. This multi-sensory input to the brain will make more connections and increase the understanding of the power of neural bonds that are in our brains. Students will begin to understand how those bonds are problematic when resisting drug addiction. |
Kim Florek and Kevin Hodgson |
Kim is a Director of Technology and Kevin is a sixth grade teacher. The requested 12 Chromebooks to support their project, Writing and Reflection: Nurturing Digital Portfolios for Sixth Grade and Beyond. Sixth grade students will create Google sites to showcase their writing and reflection process across the sixth grade curriculum. Students will gather various genres of writing samples that will document their growth as writers throughout the school year and learn about expectations for publishing their work for an authentic audience. Students will share their sites with their parents at the end of the school year, and it is expected that this will launch a multi-year digital portfolio process for students. |
Kate Powers |
Kate is an elementary school library media specialist. She requested 10 iPad minis to support her project, Dewey’s Amazing Race. The World is Waiting…Go! Taking a cue from the television reality show The Amazing Race, elementary students—armed only with iPads—will “travel” through the non-fiction section and experience puzzle solving, building and engineering, learning foreign languages, identifying and exploring new places, and creating interactive projects—finishing with a new knowledge of library wayfinding and a student-generated movie showing their journey from the 000s to the 900s, a great tool to demonstrate understanding plus a library resource library. |
Mary Ellen D'Espinosa |
Mary Ellen is a middle school math teacher. She requested a Vernier GoLink wireless interface, 8 Go Links and charging station, 9 gas pressure sensors, 9 ph sensors, 9 temperture probes, and Teacher Guide to support her project, Probing Mathematical Functions. Eighth grade students will learn about the study of linear functions, exponential growth and decay patterns and inverse variation functions through the use of wireless probes that allow more hands-on observable data collection and analysis. The Go Wireless LInk is a Vernier interface that uses bluetooth technology to transmit data from probes to iPads wirelessly. Middle school students will be able to engage more readily in interactive data anaysis with activities such as collecting data as an antacid dissolves in water, measuring pH as an antacid is dropped into lemon juice, and creating exponential graphs for cooling water. Mary Ellen will provide mentorship to teaching colleagues in the 7th and 8th grade to utilize the probes as well. |
NAME | SCHOOL |
Laurena Mott | Joesph W. Martin Elementary School |
Lisa Sanderson | Abbot School |
Peggy Harvey and Cindy Holt | Gates Elementary School |
Julie Giglia | School |
Kim Keith | Marguerite E. Small Elementary School |
Susan Stewart-Racicot, B.J. Burke and Anne Marie Wyman | Johnson Middle School |
Trevor Takayama | Wildwood Elementary School |
Gina Caulfield and Brenna Cunningham | Johnson Elementary School |
Jennifer Romph | Melrose Avenue School |
NAME | GRANT | DISTRICT |
Kristin Bergeron | What’s The News Around School? | North Falmouth |
Kevin Crowthers | Using 3D Printer Technology in Biology Problem-Based Curriculum | Worcester |
Kim Holster, Mary Shea, and Rayna Freedman | Freedman Gossip | Mansfield |
Mary Leyden | The Digtal Town Crier Project | Bernardston |
Jacqueline Prester | Business Presentations with Class...Yours or Another! | Mansfield |
Robin Talkowski | Teen Tourists: A Web-Based Resource for Parents and Teens to Enjoy Historic and Fun Places in Massachusetts | Bedford |