Education Grant Awards

Buffalo Jones Elementary School in Garden City, Kan., beat out 200 entries and received a majority of the 129,000 total public votes to be named the winner of…

eInstruction, a global education software and technology company, today announced the three grand-prize winners of its sixth annual Flip Your Classroom – eInstruction Classroom Makeover Contest. The winners,…

The National Science Foundation has awarded Prince George’s Community College a $5 million National Advanced Technological Education Center continuation grant for its National CyberWatch - Cybersecurity Education Solutions…

The University of North Alabama College of Nursing and Allied Health has just received a grant of $2.1 million from the U.S. Department of Health Resources and Services…

Dr. Elizabeth Samet, Professor of English at the United States Military Academy at West Point, is the 2012 recipient of the $50,000 Hiett Prize in the Humanities from…

The Buick Achievers Scholarship Program, funded by the General Motors Foundation, today announced scholarships totaling approximately $4.2 million to 1,100 recipients during the NBC News Education Nation Summit…

Moon Soe, 25, and Virginia Wilson, 58, have each been awarded a $2,500 scholarship as the 2012-2013 recipients of the Mary Cone Barrie Scholarship Award. The scholarship is…

The U.S. Department of Education announced the award of more than $9.8 million in grants to 16 states to operate 25 Parent Training and Information (PTI) Centers for…

Harold (Terry) McGraw III, chairman, president and chief executive officer of The McGraw-Hill Companies today announced the winners of the 2012 Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education.…

Toyota USA Foundation today announced $1.3 million in new grants to support innovative K-12 math, science, engineering and environmental science education programs, with a focus on programs that…

The New York Life Foundation announced today a three-year, $300,000 grant to support Inwood House’s educational services that help approximately 300 pregnant and parenting youth and their children…

The Nissan Foundation awarded $655,000 in grants this past week to 26 nonprofit organizations from across the country during a special luncheon commemorating the institution's 20th anniversary, the…

The St. Mary’s College of Maryland physics department has been the recipient of several grants from the Office of Naval Research (ONR), each helping to build the small…

The New York Life Foundation has awarded the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) a two-year, $500,000 grant to support programs in Boston, Chicago, New York City and Westchester…

CCS Presentation Systems, an Arizona audio and visual equipment company, has presented seven teachers statewide with teaching technology tools for the 2012-13 school year through the company’s fourth…

A career math teacher, Charlene Hebert entered a nationwide drawing to win a $40K wireless computer lab. She had tried before and failed, but this time was different.

A Tucson, Arizona small business was awarded a grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to create an educational app for middle school science…

The OneWest Foundation, the philanthropic arm of OneWest Bank, awarded $200,000 to support the education nonprofit MIND Research Institute’s Orange County Math Initiative, a community partnership designed to…

The Council of Chief State School Officers announced today that Rebecca Mieliwocki, a 7th grade English teacher in California is the 62nd National Teacher of the Year. Mieliwocki…

Better World Books and the National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL) today announced that library programs in Columbus, Ohio; Providence, R.I., and Salinas, Calif., have won the annual…

Samsung announced today the five grand prize winners in its nationwide Solve for Tomorrow contest, a competition to raise enthusiasm for science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education…

LEGO Education North America and the Education Blueprints Association today announced the fourteen recipients of the Smart Schools Grant. Funded by LEGO Education and administered by the Education…

The Turning Foundation, in partnership with SamsungT-Mobile, BrainPop and Turning Technologies announced the grant recipients of the Winter 2012 Classroom Improvement Grants. The 10 grant awards will directly…

Keep America Beautiful, Inc. announced the winners of “Recycle-Bowl,” the first nationwide recycling competition for elementary, middle, and high school students. Schools in 47 states competed, reaching more…

The Corporation for National and Community Service and the U.S. Department of Education honored the nation's leading colleges and universities, students, and faculty members, and staff for their…

Kmart announced the names of 2011 Latina Smart Fund scholarship recipients. The Latina Smart Fund was created in 2011 as a means to make higher education more accessible…

Esri has awarded five grants to select university and college faculty members to create exemplary higher education course materials and implementations of ArcGIS Online. Grantees receive $10,000 each,…

McGraw-Hill Education and the Kellogg Institute at the National Center for Developmental Education announced the recipients of the first-ever McGraw-Hill/Kellogg Developmental Educator Scholarships, which are designed to honor…

DYMO/Mimio announced that two K-12 educators in Mississippi and Texas have been awarded the "Bridging the Gap" grant. This grant from interactive teaching technology provider DYMO/Mimio provides the…

Sixteen student teams from 11 states have been named winners in the second round of the fifth annual Lexus Eco Challenge, an educational program and contest that inspires…

The nation's top achievers in Advanced Placement science and mathematics courses were recognized as winners of the 2011 Siemens Awards for Advanced Placement. The annual awards honor America's…

Microsoft Corp. announced the winners of the inaugural year of the Imagine Cup Grants program, a three-year, $3 million competitive grant program for student technology and social entrepreneurs.

Teradata, an analytic data solutions company, has named three individual associates, one team, and one office as 2011 Teradata Cares Celebration of Caring recipients for exemplary dedication to…

DemandTec, Inc., the collaborative analytics cloud for retailers and consumer products companies, announced that Kunal Sangani and Elliot Tan from Fayetteville-Manlius High School in Fayetteville, NY have won…

Kellogg's and Action for Healthy Kids announced winners of nearly 100 Share Your Breakfast grants to schools across the country. Awarded for the 2011-2012 school year, the grants…

The Online Learning Innovator Awards were presented by the International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) at the organization’s annual Virtual School Symposium (VSS), a three-day conference that…

Terry Dougherty, a third grade teacher at Roland Rogers Elementary School in Galloway Township, New Jersey has won the Great American Teach-Off earning a $10,000 classroom grant. Hundreds…

Salt Lake Community College Electronic Library and Information Environment (ELIE) has received a technology innovation in education award from the Center for Digital Education. The College developed ELIE…