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NILES -- The Trumbull County Educational Service Center secured a $55,400 grant that will be used to establish a new STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) program during the second semester of the 2020-21 school year.
The funding was made available through the Ohio Collaborative for Educating Remotely and Transforming Schools to support schools in their efforts to improve remote learning.
TCESC's Curriculum and Instruction Department will launch the STEM program in January and run it through the second semester of the 2020-21 school year.
The program will complement TCESC's STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, math) Powered Learning, explained assistant Superintendent Dr. Robert Marino Jr., who oversees curriculum and instruction.
TCESC is building curriculum for STEM that can be used in any instructional model: remotely, face-to-face or a hybrid.
"We are thrilled to be able to bring our work and passion for creativity, innovation and collaboration to even more students," said Dana Butto, TCESC supervisor of Curriculum and Instruction, Mathematics and STEAM Powered Learning.
Both programs are open to students who attend public schools across Trumbull County that work in partnership with the TCESC. Students in grades 4 to 8 participate in STEAM. The new STEM program will be open to students in grades 5 to 8.
The OCER grant assists schools' efforts in improving remote learning practices and outcomes through project-focused work that, ultimately, informs long-term solutions and transforms education. According to the Ohio Department of Education website.
Public and community schools, districts, consortia or networks and educational service centers qualified to apply for the funding.
TCESC applied for the grant in early November and received word of approval in early December.