Austin Ed Fund is awarding $75,000 in Spring 2016 Innovation Grants to 15 teacher projects at campuses across AISD.

Innovation Grants are offered in two categories: up to $10,000 for campus/ department projects and up to $2,000 for individual classroom projects focused on literacy, science, technology, engineering, and math and the whole child. 

New projects funded in 2016 include a campus science, technology, engineering, arts and math media studio for students to write and produce their own programming, a student-generated and student-led Girls Conference and refurbishing a campus literacy library with modern, culturally relevant instructional resources.

Who: Austin Ed Fund will host an awards reception for the winners of the 2015 and 2016 Innovation Grants.

What: The grants are designed to recognize and reward innovative and creative instructional approaches that cannot typically be funded within campus budgets.

Where: Google Fiber Space, 201 Colorado St.

When: 5:30–7:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 8

For more information, please visit www.austinedfund.org.

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Austin Ed Fund supports excellence and innovation in the Austin Independent School District. Austin Ed Fund is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization governed by an independent board of directors made up of business, community and education leaders. 

Austin ISD is the largest school district in Central Texas, serving more than 83,000 students at 130 schools. Follow AISD on Twitter at @AustinISD or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/austinisd.