| Elementary | |||
| Columbia Elementary School | “STEM Power Tools: Building Brain and Muscle Power for K-5 Innovators” | Julie Vandiver | Funding will support a hands-on, foundational program designed to equip K-5th grade students with essential tools for STEM learning. |
| Columbia Elementary School | “Bilingual Books for ALL” | Eliza Aybar | Funds will be used to purchase a curated collection of Spanish-English bilingual books appropriate for kindergarten through 5th grade, including materials for our Structured Learning Classes (SLC). |
| Creekside Primary School | “Stem Bins and Coding” | LaRhonda Jones | Funds will be used to purchase Stem bins. Stem bins are an ideal hands-on option to help promote fine motor practice and creativeness with a hands-on approach. |
| Horizon Elementary School | “Scholastic News” | Summer Chance | Funds will be used to support the Scholastic News program, a weekly nonfiction print, and digital resource used in 4th grade to teach a multimedia curriculum, building content knowledge, vocabulary, and nonfiction reading skills. |
| Horizon Elementary School | “Buckets for Brains” | Viktoria Truesdail | Funds will be used to support Horizon’s bucket drumming club where students learn basic fundamentals of drumming as well as how to work in a team environment. |
| Madison Elementary School | “Transforming” Math in Second Grade | Brooke Sigler | Funds will be used to help “transform” their Second-Grade classrooms to increase student engagement in math and to facilitate teamwork. |
| Rainbow Elementary School | “Creating a Calming Classroom Haven” | Kesha Lovejoy | Funds will help transform a special education classroom into a sensory stimulation and regulation haven creating a more inclusive and supportive learning environment for all students. |
| Rainbow Elementary School | “Adaptable STEM Toys for Structured Learning Classrooms” | Megan Hockey | Funds will be used to help incorporate adaptable STEM toys which help to create inclusive learning experiences that empower every child to participate actively in experiments, building activities, and creative problem-solving tasks. |
| Middle | |||
| Discovery Middle School | “SLC Special Needs Playground” | Madeline Bailey | Grant funding will help build the on-campus installation and completion of a special needs playground for students in grades 6-8 with multiple disabilities / special needs. This playground will encompass an ADA-approved surface area, benches, shade, and several pieces of play equipment. |
| Journey Middle School | “Greenpower USA Inspiring Innovation” | Preanza Eggleston-Hayes | Funding will be used to continue the development of the Greenpower curriculum as well as to build collaboration skills and confidence in decision-making amongst their team members. |
| High | |||
| Bob Jones High School | “Graphic Novels for Student Literacy” | Leslie Hughes | The grant will be used to purchase graphic novels that help bridge the gap in reading comprehension for English Language Learners and struggling readers, fostering both language skills and a love for literature. |
| Bob Jones High School | “Air Force JROTC Raider PT Course” | Melissa Lacey | Funds will be used to purchase the equipment and materials to build a pull-up bar station for the Raider PT course at BJHS. |
| James Clemens High School | “Winter Guard Mat” | Katie Hazelton | The JCHS Winter Guard program competes multiple times in the Southeastern Color Guard Circuit during the spring semester. This grant will be used to purchase a new competition mat. |
| Community Organizations | |||
| Child Evangelism Fellowship of North Alabama | “Good News Club in Madison” | Jennifer Wade | Funding will be used to support The Good News Club which offers training in morals, character, leadership, and citizenship to students at Heritage Elementary. |
| Kids to Love | “KTECH Summer Camps” | Tiffany Golden Morris | This grant will help fund Camp KTECH which offers three week-long camps every Summer that teach 9th-12th grade students robotics, mechatronics, virtual reality, and other basic engineering principles in a fun and engaging way! |
| Make A Way Foundation | “Sensory Room Additions” | Stacey Givens | Funding will go to help equip sensory rooms with items that would meet the needs of many students with disabilities. |
| Rocket City Learning Collective | “Lending Library” | Ashlea Sukhwani | The funds will be used to purchase 5 k-12 literacy learning bags from Catapult Learning to be added to the lending library to help ensure that there is no financial barrier for local homeschool families to have access to reading materials essential in their curriculum. |
| Rotary Club of Madison Foundation | “North Alabama Rotary Youth Leadership: Building Tomorrow’s Leaders” | Sandy Patel | Funding will go to purchase a copy of Simon Sinek’s “Start with Why” in preparation for The Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) program. |
| The Caring Link | “Book Fairy Magic for Madison County Students” | Kate O’Neal | Funding will go to support the “BOOK FAIRY” program which help to ensure students who could not otherwise afford to shop or those who have shown model behavior and/or exemplary leadership can cash in gift certificates for their very own books. |
| Whirly Girl Ink, Inc | “Community Center Management” | Rachel Hall | Funding will go to support and ensure the community center is prepared to support robotics teams through the competitive transition period. |
| Liberty Learning Foundation | “Civic & Character Programs in Madison City Schools” | Tricia Bobo | Funding will go to support The Civic & Character programs which help to prepare students to become more engaged citizens, ensure their passage of the mandated High School Civics Exam, and allow schools to comply with Alabama’s statute which requires schools to implement a comprehensive character education program. |