Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank presented 89 mini-grants to Cape and Island teachers from 43 area schools at the bank’s annual Educational Mini-Grants ceremony held January 13 at Cape Cod Community College last week.
Bank president and CEO, and Cape Cod Five Foundation chairman, Dorothy A. Savarese said their projects represent “new and innovative ideas — ideas that demonstrate the creativity, energy, and commitment of our teachers both to their students and their profession.”
Ms. Savarese also showcased a recently launched web site, capecodfivefoundationminigrants.org, that allows teachers to access shared information and ideas about mini-grant projects. Teachers use the grants to offer unique educational programs that would otherwise not be available to their students, according to a press release.
Island teachers who received funding this year, and their projects, include Edgartown School teachers Carrie Pollard and Robin Moriarty, who will create a monthly student newspaper. Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School teacher Dawne Nelson will offer an educational program called “Robotics Kits for All!” in which students will work in an engineering team environment to build and program Lego robots.
Five Oak Bluffs School teachers will use a grant to improve reading comprehension. Teachers from West Tisbury School won four mini-grants to fund projects that include the construction and programming of robots, studying chickens raised in an incubator, improving literacy, and studying the water cycle.