2023-2024 Innovation Grants NOW OPEN!

Grants due Friday, November 10, 2023 by 11:59PM.

Intermediate Unit 1 is pleased to offer schools the opportunity to apply for Innovation Mini Grants. The IU1 Innovation Mini-Grants program provides K-12 educators in southwestern Pennsylvania, northern West Virginia, and Belmont county, Ohio the opportunity to implement creative programs or projects designed to encourage excitement for learning in STEM/STEAM. Funded by the Claude Worthington Benedum, Equitrans Midstream and EQT Foundations, the grants are open to schools in:

• Intermediate Unit 1: Fayette, Greene, and Washington Counties

• West Virginia: Brooke, Ohio, Marshall, Hancock, Wetzel, Barbour, Doddridge, Gilmer, Harrison, Lewis, Marion, Monongalia, Preston, Randolph, Taylor, Tucker, and Upshur Counties

• Ohio: Belmont County

This year there are two options to apply for a grant the Innovation Grant and the Stand Out Innovator Grant, see below to see which you can apply for: 

• Innovation Grant: any school in the above mentioned counties can apply for a grant of up to $5,000.00. See grant details below. 

• Stand Out Innovator Grant:  The goal of this expansion to the Innovation Grants is to replicate successful projects in other schools throughout our region. Schools must have received and successfully completed an Innovation Grant in the past. Schools will select another school, be it local within their own county or from another state/county that is in the counties/states listed above, to replicate a previously completed project from their school with another school in a mentor/mentee style program. If a school is not able to select a school but is interested IU1 will assist in matching an interested school. Each school will receive $5,000 to complete the program.

Moonshot Grants: Moonshot Grants will support big, bold ideas in teaching and learning, ideas that address the challenges and the opportunities currently facing young people, educators, and caregivers.

Learn more about the grants and apply at https://remakelearning.org/grants/ 

Epic Games has committed $100 million to support game developers, enterprise professionals, media and entertainment creators, students, educators, and tool developers doing amazing things with Unreal Engine or enhancing open-source capabilities for the 3D graphics community. Show them your projects and you could earn a financial grant to help fuel your success! Earn funding for Unreal Engine research, curriculum, and student projects. They also provide grants for schools implementing Unreal Engine into classrooms and programs.

Learn more and apply at: https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/megagrants