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DeKALB The high school’s robotics team is almost done building its robot after receiving more than $6,000 in grants.

DeKalb High School’s “Crowbotics” team, which launched last year, will compete in its first competition April 1 and 2, where their robot will have to go through different challenges, execute different defense moves and push a boulder through a model castle.

Monsanto Fund and the Argosy Foundation both awarded the DeKalb team with funding that will help them compete in 2016 and into 2017.

As a newcomer to the robotics game, DeKalb received the Argosy Foundation 2016 FIRST Robotics Competition Rookie Grant. 18, 2016 – 12:21 am

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What’s your social enterprise idea?

British Council Bangladesh, in partnership with ChangeMaker (a national non-profit organisation) launched social entrepreneurship boot camp under the theme of “Innovate, Incubate and Grow (IIG): A Social Enterprise Support Programme” for the first time in Bangladesh on February 11, 2016 at CCDB Hope Centre in Savar, Dhaka.

In conjunction with the call to submit social enterprise ideas, 24 shortlisted participants with 9 innovative social enterprise ideas participated in the programme.

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The middle school received a grant to fund supplies and implementing STEM courses design and modeling and automation and robotics.

aHaving Facebook this close to the community and school district has brought national recognition to our area as well the opportunity to apply for funding of special projects such as these by local community organizations and school districts,a said Donovan Hill of Bondurant-Farrar.

The Altoona and Pleasant Hill libraries received a collaborated grant for the implementation of the monthly STEM programs to serve the Southeast Polk school district.

Bondurant Development received a grant to help fund the Porch Swings and Fireflies project at Gateway Park.

Class Act Productions was awarded a grant to help purchase an updated lighting system.

Iowa Public Television received a grant that will fund a literacy program at Willowbrook Elementary and Mitchellville Elementary that is designed to engage kids and families through technology and educational media.

Childserve received a grant to purchase six iPads with protective cases to be used in the therapeutic treatment of children with various developmental and neurological disabilities.

Other groups receiving grants are the Community Youth Concepts program, the Pursuit of Innovation and Train to Inspire.

aIt is important no matter what Facebook wants to be a good steward in Altoona,a Wilder said.

It is an initiative designed specifically for minority youths, and will allow underserved community college students to create solutions to pressing societal problems using digitization skills acquired through Cisco curriculum while receiving career and college preparation training to succeed educationally. It will include a culturally responsive version of ASU Startup School designed to support students designing projects around their ideas to solve community problems.

The second component of the partnership will train high school teachers in 20 high schools to embed principles of engineering, human-centered design service learning, and social entrepreneurship within their curriculum to empower the next generation of high school students as social entrepreneurs. Over the period of three years, the partnership will support and expand upon existing local efforts such as:

SEED SPOT NEXT, an entrepreneurship training program for high school students run by the Phoenix social entrepreneurship non-profit SEED SPOT; and
Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) High, a national award winning program at ASU’s Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering that engages high school student teams to design, build, and deploy innovative engineering solutions for charities, schools and other non-profits. Both high school and community college students will have a chance to compete in multiple pitch events every year where they can win up to $5,000 in seed funds to launch their ventures and careers.