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Windsor Education Foundation (WEF) has awarded a total of $15,989 in grants to fund 14 projects proposed by teachers in Windsor Public Schools, including a $1,000 science grant from The Christine Gasparino Memorial Fund.  All Windsor Public Schools certified staff members were eligible to apply for the grants.  Read about the grants. Since 2007, WEF has awarded $147,000 to local,…

WEF is seeking a Communications Intern who is currently attending Windsor High School (WHS) or has recently graduated from WHS and is attending an accredited college/university. The Intern will contribute a minimum of 100 hours managing communications for WEF, including website and social media updates, newsletter preparation, mailings and correspondence. The Intern will interact closely…

Windsor Education Foundation event to raise funds and fans for Windsor’s Public Schools Windsor Education Foundation, a grant-making organization for Windsor’s public school educators, invites the public to Decadent Date Night on February 9 at 7:30PM at Vito’s by the Water in Windsor. The event includes wine or beer, indulgent desserts, and liqueur tastings, plus…

Clover Street School’s Ms. Michalic reports that Math Bags are part of the effort to increase Math scores in her classroom: “Throughout the implementation of the Math Bags in school and at home, I noticed that the Math Bags positively impacted my student’s STAR Math scores and increased their SBAC Math Assessment from previous years.”…

Windsor High School is building up the Electrathon program.  The 2017 grant from WEF funded a second vehicle with a composite body.  This enables students the opportunity to work with lightweight materials like carbon fiber, nomex honeycomb, and Kevlar. Electrathon America is a low-cost Electric Vehicle design competition.  The organization was formed in the late…

WEF is excited to support teachers throughout the Windsor Public School District by funding the Breakout EDU Experience.  This is a riddle-based set of lessons where students must work together in teams or as an entire classroom to solve clues and puzzles that guide them to find the correct combination for the locks on a…

Team Paragon Robotics now has a Digital Positioning Readout mounted on machining.  The FIRST Robotics season begins each January, and students are being trained during the fall in preparation for the upcoming build season.  Trained students will use this technology for hands-on learning of precision manufacturing in the process of building their robot for competition. …