2022 Wildcat Den Grant Recipients
Creative Classroom Learning Environment: Making Learning Visible
Whitehouse Junior High School
$9,285.83
These five adjustable tilt tables with markerboard surfaces will make learning visible for history students at Whitehouse Junior High School. Students will be able to collaborate in small groups or with the entire classroom when they project with iPads from the tilt tables onto installed BENQ screens. History will come alive!
Green is the New Brown
Brown Elementary
$8,044.03
Green is coming to Brown Elementary—a greenhouse that is! An entire classroom will be able to learn about science and agriculture in this greenhouse.
Learning OUTSIDE the Lines
Brown Elementary
$5,904.89
The Pre-K students at Brown Elementary are getting an upgrade to outdoor play and learning. Students will build with bricks and blocks, excavate with a dino dig kit, enjoy a water table and make mud pies in a new mud kitchen.
Let’s Give Our Students a Hand
Whitehouse High School
$15,050
This grant entails funding for the hardware, software, equipment, setup, training, and academic licenses required for a Fanuc six-axis robotic arm. The total cost for this industrial robotic arm is $60,000. The following are partners in funding this grant: The Genesis Group, Trane Technologies, WHS CTE Department, and Whitehouse ISD Education Foundation.
Math Matters!
Cain Elementary
$6,258.79
Math can be fun! With this new math lab at Cain Elementary, students will be able to reinforce what they learn while enjoying the time spent in the math lab.
Positive Vending Vibes
Whitehouse Junior High School
$4,670.69
WJHS will reinforce positive student behavior with vending machines filled with fun, non-food incentives. WJHS employees will receive a token each semester to reward students. Students may receive fun school supplies, lunch with the principal, or a VIP lunch with friends.
Starbrite Students
Brown Elementary
$2,266.38
Though this initial grant would facilitate a relationship between Starbrite and the life skills classroom at Brown. Students will visit the Starbrite Equestrian Center a few times during the school year. In addition, the instructors from Starbrite will visit students in the classroom. This is a pilot program for both Starbrite Equestrian Center and Whitehouse Life Skills at Brown Elementary. It is our hope that this will expand to include all life-skills classrooms across Whitehouse ISD in the future.
Summer STEAM Pop-Ups
District-Wide
$4,861.88
Learning will continue through the summer with STEAM Pop-ups around the community! Students will have the opportunity to attend seven STEAM lessons during summer break. Topics include ecosystems, moon phases, circuits, and more. The first 50 students who arrive will also receive a STEM take-home packet to do a project at home. This grant is funded by The Genesis Group.
Wildcat Arcade
Whitehouse High School
$3,000.75
WHS Computer Science students will create an arcade game. While the shell for the game will be ordered to easily assemble, students will work together to build the computer system to run the games. They’ll also write the coding for the games. This grant is funded by Drs. Lisa Kraus & Frank Cabell III.