Mini-Grant Award List
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2022 - 2023
Project |
Awardees |
Award Amount |
Portfolio Modules Project The goal of this project is to create modules to assist all education majors complete the required components of their Capstone Portfolio. The purpose of the project is to create the modules to relay consistent information to share with education students regardless of their major or entry point into the program. |
Brittany Hagen Clayton Dodson Sarah Kallock Jeni Peterson Kayla Smith |
$2,500 Stipends |
CDA Certificate Project The purpose of the project is to grow the early childhood workforce with qualified educators. We want to create early childhood certificates that would lead towards completing the AA, BA, or BSED in Early Childhood education. The development of the certificates would have the possibility of growing enrollment in our early childhood programs at Mayville State University. |
Kelli Odden Sarah Kallock Ann Willeson |
$1250 Stipends |
MTSS Interventions Project The purpose of this case study is to develop and implement a set of student support interventions for students in the teacher education program or are struggling to meet the requirements for program admission. The goal is to lower the number of students who are not meeting admission criteria, fail courses, or denied student teaching placement. |
Pam Johnson Yvonne Cannon Sarah Kallock |
$1250 Stipends |
Total |
$5000 |
2021 - 2022
Project |
Awardees |
Award Amount |
Launching Media Club Providing students the equipment, training and opportunity to be creative and benefit the university while gaining valuable professional experience. |
Kati Nelson Beth Swenson Heather Hoyt |
$1924 Equipment |
Legos & Trucks Managers are often tasked with improving efficiency and productivity while at the same time providing a high level of quality. Utilizing Legos and remote controlled trucks in the classroom, students have learned how best to implement some of these management controls while simulating the "real world" in a classroom setting.
|
Rob Johnston |
$650 Equipment |
A Higher Perspective: How to Incorporate Drones into Your Courses In the last ten years, drones have become widely available and affordable, offering spectacular views, photographs, videos for even the most inexperienced pilot. However, the versatility of drone use in the classroom is still a frontier of opportunities, from courses in physics and biology, to history, sports management, communication and beyond. This presentation will briefly discuss using drones across disciplines, where the sky is quite literally the limit in possibilities. |
Thomas Craig Jeff Hovde |
$726 Equipment |
Creating Consistency: Leveraging Lesson Planning for the Classroom Setting This session is dedicated to introducing participants to our newly developed lesson plan modules. Participants will be exposed to elements of effective lesson planning that can be applied in all subject areas and across synchronous and asynchronous Pre-School - Post Secondary classroom settings. |
Brittany Hagen Clayton Dodson |
$1000 Stipends |
Assessing Cellphone-based Colorimetry as an Instructional Tool Colorimetry is a scientific technique that measures the degree of color in different chemical solutions. Using cellphones to perform this measurement could be a unique and engaging way to teach fundamental science concepts at the elementary, middle, high school and university levels. |
Tom Gonnella |
$700 Equipment |
Total |
$5000 |
2020-2021
Project |
Awardees |
Award Amount |
3D Printer purchase, set up and training |
Jeni Peterson Kelly Kornkven Matt Dalrymple Pam Johnson |
$750 |
Creation of interactive quizzes and activities with Articulate Storyline. Purchase of two Team licenses. |
Joseph Mehus |
$1300 |
Staff Onboarding process and training |
Ashley Kulland Megan Vig Misti Wuori |
$2000 |
Resource for education division – vetted videos for use by teacher educators |
Brittany Hagen Cindy Gregg |
$2000 |
Assess video analysis as an instructional tool for on-campus and remote students. |
Tom Gonnella |
$1000 |
Total |
$7050 |
2019-2020
Project |
Awardees |
Award Amount |
Dedicated controller and accessories for drone |
Thomas Craig |
$560 |
24 pairs of Google Cardboard VR sets |
Thomas Craig |
$300 |
Book Study on Specifications Grading |
Kelly Kornkven Lona Smith Lynn DiLivio Chris Gonnella |
$720 |
Expand and Update YouTube Channel |
Erin Kunz |
$1000 |
Equipment to develop and offer a hybrid course |
Aubrey Madler |
$850 |
Hardware and software to update the music program |
Greta Paschke Cody Hunter |
$3500 |
Total |
6930 |
2018 - 2019
Project |
Awardees |
Award Amount |
Portable document camera for recording lectures. |
Jeff Hovde |
$250 |
Training for Unmanned Aerial Systems |
Aaron Kingsbury |
$500 |
To fund NACADA academic advising webinars on a regular basis to MSU faculty and staff. |
Teri Wright |
$750 |
Transfer Student Information Module |
Kayla Smith |
$1,000 |
Funds to create a YouTube channel that addresses MLA/APA documentation issues. |
Erin Lord Kunz |
$1,000 |
Video Conferencing Classroom equipment |
Rhonda Nelson Gene Levitt Donna Gutschmidt Dustin Olson Robert Johnston Ted Stoa Bob Tangsrud |
$2,050 |
Comprehensive onboarding course for new faculty teaching online at MSU. |
Tami Such Collette Christoffers Lindsay Bontjes Monica Ptacek |
$4,000 |
total |
$9550 |