Engineering is Elementary
This grant introduced engineering and design into the 5th grade curriculum in order to generate enthusiasm for the field of learning.
Specialty Grants
The Hopkinton Education was founded in 1992 by Reverend Stephen Gray to give Hopkinton citizens and businesses a way to fund innovative educational opportunities for the town’s students. Its purpose was to supplement the school system budget. Proposition 2 ½ was put in effect in 1982. A decade later its effects were felt with much of the funds for innovation and idea incubation having been stripped from the school budget. Bill Hosmer, then superintendent of HPS as well as a founding board member of the Education Foundation, met with Dick Egan, CEO and founder of EMC, and asked for his support. Mr. Egan wrote a check for $10,000 and a 20-year relationship was forged. EMC continued to support the Ed Foundation through the years with donations as well as being the lead sponsor of our Winter Gala in 2006. In 2007, after discussion with EMC, the Ed Foundation began our Grant Naming program. EMC decided to consolidate the funds donated to the Hopkinton Public Schools primarily into one annual donation of $5,000 to the Ed Foundation, allowing the funds donated to be more impactful in the STEM arena of education. The EMC Grant for Math & Science was born. At the same time, the Board chose to recognize Stephen Gray as the founding member by naming a grant after him. This grant recognizes which grant the board deems the most innovative after our founder.
Dell/EMC Grant
Hopkins Students Get “SMARTer”
This grant funded a pilot study using interactive whiteboard technology (Smart Board) to enhance and support learning in the classroom.
SMARTer Health Classes
This grant funded a Smart Board for the Health Room at Elmwood School. The goal of the program was to reach every student in the building.
Stephen Gray Innovation Grant
Virtual Travel with Google Cardboard, 2016
This grant will enable the techno library teacher as well as classroom teachers at Hopkins and Elmwood to immerse their students in virtual field trips bringing abstract concepts to life as well as offering the students a deeper understanding of the world beyond our classrooms.
The Innovation Lab funded by the Hopkinton Education Foundation: Creating Inspiring Learning Spaces for HHS Students, 2015
This grant creates an inspiring student learning space that will serve as an incubator for a more innovative approach to classroom design through the Hopkinton school system.
Glass Fusion and Slumping, 2014
This cross curricular grant will impact all students at Hopkins School, providing them with a glass kiln which will help study glass fusion and slumping. Glass Fusion is a technology based, hands on learning experience that allows students to create unique glass sculptures.