Scrabble Anyone?

The Germantown Education Foundation awards grants for projects that would otherwise go unfunded. In 2019, The Pointe won a grant for $2,039 for the purchase of a giant wall-mount Scrabble board and 10 Official Scrabble Players Dictionaries. Students benefit from Scrabble in the following ways:

-Digital detox

-Thinking skills

-Problem solving

-Refining soft skills

-Attention deficits

-Time management

-Logic to plan ahead

-Math/Spatial concepts

-Rechanneling emotions

-Teamwork/Social Skills

-Meanings of words/Context

-Strategic thinking

-Developing an interest in reading, spelling, vocabulary, and derivatives

-Understanding/Tolerance for others

-Improving writing/sentence formation

-Evaluating the consequences of their actions

-Fostering positive & productive interactions with differing abilities/personality types