grant recipients
As you read through our grant recipients, we hope you are inspired by the educators who continue to create pioneering programs for our students. We are grateful to the donors of our endowment who make this possible. The following is a comprehensive list of grants that make our students’ educational experiences unforgettable.
2026 Standard Grant Awards
Chromatic Journeys: Exploring Color Through Craft and Science
Award Amount:$632.16
Teacher Project Description:Funds to purchase craft and science items for students to explore color
Art Through the Lens of Nature
Award Amount: $3,510.36
Teacher Project Description: Fund a digital microscope, slides, and supplies to explore nature's patterns and inspire student art.
Multicultural Week at Owl Creek
Award Amount: $668.00
Teacher Project Description: Owl Creek's World Culture Week
Wonders of Wildlife: Landing and Launch
Award Amount: $5,785.00
Teacher Project Description: Students explore genetics, anatomy, and environmental impact through dissections, aquarium tour, and biologist-led learning experiences
Classroom Set of Ukuleles for SOAR Academy Music Encore
Award Amount: $1,152.90
Teacher Project Description:A classroom set of ukuleles for instruction in the music encore class.
Innovative Imaging for Future Veterinarians
Award Amount: $6,149.00
Teacher Project Description: Grant funds will purchase an ultrasound to provide hands-on veterinary experience, enhancing learning and skills.
Grab Your Pack: Observing the Great Outdoors
Award Amount: $2,979.75
Teacher Project Description: Students and the opportunity to use scientific tools contained in bags on observation walks..
FHS Bulldog SWAP and SHOP Thrift Boutique
Award Amount: $844.00
Teacher Project Description: The SWAP and SHOP Boutique will create a student-run thrift boutique promoting sustainablility and leadership.
Precision Playback: A new standard in replay and sports production
Award Amount: $4,774.12
Teacher Project Description:This project provides students real world industry experience beyond what we do in classroom.
COBRACultures: Honoring the Past. Celebrating the Present. Uniting the Future
Award Amount: $4,000.00
Teacher Project Description: Funds will purchase educational materials and student experiences to celebrate and honor diverse cultural heritage
Planting Seeds of Success: Sensory Tools Rooted in Readiness
Award Amount: $5,487.12
Teacher Project Description: With grant support, a restless child uses sensory tools to self-calm and reengage in learning.
Service Through Creativity: Craft Kits for our Community
Award Amount: $1,000.00
Teacher Project Description: Building community and fostering volunteerism through hands-on projects that support seniors, children, and families.
Jazz Connects Us: Confidence, Community, and Culture Through Jazz Performance
Award Amount: $4,300.00
Teacher Project Description: The custom jazz band stand fronts will honor cultural minorities, jazz history, and FPS values.
Equipping Young Explorers: Hands-On Tools for Survival Learning
Award Amount: $2,944.47
Teacher Project Description: Grant funds hands-on survival skills unit promoting critical thinking, collaboration, and real world problem solving.
New Music for FHS Band
Award Amount: $2,500.00
Teacher Project Description: Grant funds will be used to purchase new music for the FHS Band.
Creating a classroom learning community seemlessly through technology.
Award Amount: $1,426.74
Teacher Project Description: Paired with existing technology, the Surface Pro would help create a more dynamic learning community.
Building Balance: Sculpting Wellness and Conservation
Award Amount: $2,704.77
Teacher Project Description: Grant funds will purchase chomp saws for safe, sustainable sculpture projects promoting wellness and conservation.
Youth Healthcare Academy
Award Amount: $5,000.00
Teacher Project Description: Compensation for nursing staff to provide CPR/First Aid Training, and form cardiac rapid response teams.
Functional Cooking Material for Independence and Transition Instruction
Award Amount: $1,369.45
Teacher Project Description: Cooking materials will be purchased to support independent living skills.
Hydroponics Versus Soil: Student-Driven Agricultural Growth Research Study
Award Amount: $1,542.23
Teacher Project Description: Funds purchase hydroponic systems, soil supplies, data tools, collaborative research stations
Technology Integration in FHS Mathematics Classroom
Award Amount: $5,300.00
Teacher Project Description: Purchase of Newline boards to replace grant funded SmartBoards from 2010.
From Seed to STEM: The Wildcat Grow Lab
Award Amount: $4,979.54
Teacher Project Description: The project empowers student success through sustainable, collaborative, hands-on hydroponic STEM learning.
Seeing Inside Science: Human Body Models for Student Success
Award Amount: $4,277.48
Teacher Project Description: Students and their opportunity to use interactive human body models to enhance hands-on science instruction.
Beat by Beat: Bringing World Music Drumming to Butterfield Students
Award Amount: $4,519.26
Teacher Project Description: Drums and drumming resources will provide opportunites for engagment, community, and equity.
FHS Take & Make Community Service Library
Award Amount: $1,500.00
Teacher Project Description: A student without transportation completes service at home, meeting graduation requirements with dignity.
Emergency car repair
Award Amount: $3,229.37
Teacher Project Description: The goal of our grant is to help families with emergency car repairs.
Stoles & Song
Award Amount: $1,821.00
Teacher Project Description: Purchase Sight Reading Factory (curriculum used for sight reading and solfedge)
Ag Fabrication - Structures Learning Lab & Display
Award Amount: $3,000.00
Teacher Project Description: Construct an educational display for construction procedures, plumbing, electrical, and HVAC
Strengthening school culture at Ramay through behavior rewards and incentives.
Award Amount: $3,000.00
Teacher Project Description: Intentional field trips and incentives to reward positive behavior and strengthen school culture.
Enhancing Student Engagement and Accessibility Through Interactive Technology
Award Amount: $2,200.00
Teacher Project Description: Enhancing student success by providing interactive, collaborative, and highly organized learning platform.
Powering Young Innovators: Hands-On Electricity & Engineering Exploration
Award Amount: $1,250.00
Teacher Project Description: Grant funds hands-on circuitry unit promoting creativity, engineering thinking, and real-world STEM problem solving.
FHS Costume Initiative 2026
Award Amount: $2,901.99
Teacher Project Description: Costume storage organization and costume construction materials
Jim Blair Author Series at FPL's True Lit Festival
Award Amount: $2,901.99
Teacher Project Description: Author event, writing workshop, and/or poetry readings during FPL's True Lit Festival
Empowering Artists: Funding for Connotations Literary Magazine
Award Amount: $2,500.00
Teacher Project Description: These funds will be used to print approximately 150 copies of our literary magazine.
2026 Pendergraft Grant Awards
Together We Rise: A House System to promote school community.
Award Amount: $5,000
Teacher Project Description: The House System will create a strong, supportive school community where every student feels connected.
Cultivation with Automation
Award Amount: $10,000.00
Teacher Project Description: Fertigation systems in the FHS grenhouse will deepen students' programming knowledge and skills.
Bringing Cave Science to the Classroom: An Experiential Learning Opportunity
Award Amount: $15,000.00
Teacher Project Description: Funds will support immersive CaveSim experiences, providing equitable, hands-on cave science for middle school learners.
2025 Standard Grant Awards
New Music for FHS Band
Award Amount: $2,500.00
Teacher Project Description: Funds will be used to purchase new music for the FHS Band program.
Escape Room Experience
Award Amount: $2,490.00
Teacher Project Description: Escape room experience where students will learn how to solve and create challenging puzzles.
Bringing Learning to Life: A WWI Museum Experience
Award Amount: $200.00
Teacher Project Description: Field trip experience to the WWI Museum and Memorial in Kansas City
Cinderella's Way To The Ball!
Award Amount: $2,950.00
Teacher Project Description: Support in renting a performance ready, light up carriage for Cinderella to attend her ball!
SLS Student Run Coffee Cart
Award Amount: $160.05
Teacher Project Description: SLS Students will run a coffee cart for teachers with FCCLA students.
Child-Safe Cardboard Cutting Tools
Award Amount: $2,500.00
Teacher Project Description: We will purchase 10 ChompSaw Maker Sets, allowing students to safely cut cardboard for sculptures.
Active Exploders: Indoor Gross Motor Fun for Early Learners
Award Amount: $5,196.39
Teacher Project Description: Pre-K seeks funding for an indoor motor skills program to enhance development and school readiness.
John L Colbert Fine Arts Springs Musical
Award Amount: $2,000.00
Teacher Project Description: Grant funding will be used to purchase production materials, scripts, costumes, and licensing.
Lions Cornhole Games
Award Amount: $263.33
Teacher Project Description: The funds will be used to buy cornhole sets to enhance physical activity.
Ramay Clubs
Award Amount: $3,332.00
Teacher Project Description: Student-interest clubs foster belonging, cultural appreciation, and equity, improving behavior, attendance, and engagement.
Creation of ALLPS Journalism Program
Award Amount: $3,772.95
Teacher Project Description: This will provide equipment to launch a journalism program at my school.
SoNA Mentors- Music education outreach
Award Amount: $5,000.00
Teacher Project Description: Professional musicians provide valuable teaching assistance to public school music programs at no cost.
Jim Blair Author Series at FPL's True Lit Festival
Award Amount: $4,000.00
Teacher Project Description: Author visit for all interestedFHS teens
CodeBridge: Inclusive Robotics & Enrichment
Award Amount: $2,575.18
Teacher Project Description: Grant to offer meaningful access for all students to Robotics and Programming classes
Cultivating Culture and Community Through Collaborative Art Opportunities
Award Amount: $1,120.49
Teacher Project Description: These collaborative art opportunities will unite students and community members to foster creativity and culture.
Emergency car repair and maintenance program
Award Amount: $5,350.00
Teacher Project Description: Car repair and maintenance to assist families with transportation to jobs and school activities.
Clubs at JLC: Providing access, experiences, & opportunities for all students.
Award Amount: $4,400.00
Teacher Project Description: JLC Clubs: Providing access, experiences, opportunities for all students aligned with FPS Goals&Middle School Philosophy.
Using Competition Robotics to Learn AI
Award Amount: $6,849.58
Teacher Project Description: Students will explore and learn about AI technologies by establishing an AI robotics competition team.
Exploring Ecomonics with the Fayetteville Farmer's Market
Award Amount: $713.20
Teacher Project Description: Transportation and student purchase at Farmers Market
Functional Communication Board for Playground and Nurse's Office
Award Amount: $1,890.00
Teacher Project Description: Communication boards support individuals in initiating conversations with peers, navigating social situations, and expressing needs/wants.
STEAMING Ahead at Owl Creek
Award Amount: $1,958.20
Teacher Project Description: Students will work with Owl Creek alum and community members to learn more about STEAM.
Connecting with student culture and SEL through World Music Drumming
Award Amount: $9,808.69
Teacher Project Description: Drumming developes movement, rhythm, teamwork, self-expression and creativity.
Expanding Equitable Access to Physical Computing in Computer Science
Award Amount: $7,701.85
Teacher Project Description: Funding for physical computing kits to enhance learning in CS courses.
FHS Model United Nations 2025-26 Revitalization
Award Amount: $3,770.00
Teacher Project Description: Engage student interest in United Nations' activities. Take more students 9th-12th grade to MUN competitions
Rewarding Ramay Scholars with Movement and Wellness Incentives
Award Amount: $5,300.00
Teacher Project Description: Movement themed field trips and wellness items for positive behavior incentives.
Empowering Artists: Funding for Connotations Literary Magazine
Award Amount: $2,500.00
Teacher Project Description: These funds will be used to print approximately 150 copies of our literary magazine.
2025 Pendergraft Grant Awards
Woodland Jr. High Drumline
Award Amount: $15,934.46
Teacher Project Description: Drumline Equipment for Woodland Band in order to perform at school and community events.
Microscopes & Binoculars: Looking Through the Lenses of Science
Award Amount: $12,000.00
Teacher Project Description: Microscopes for Holt, JLC and McNair and binocular sets for checkout for K-12 science explorations
Rhythm & Motion: Equipping ALLPS for Music and Movement
Award Amount: $13,000.00
Teacher Project Description: Grant funds will purchase specialized equipment for a music studio
2024 Fall Grant Awards
Trout in the Classroom: Fisheries Biology and Conservation For All
Award Amount: $7,055.00
Teacher Project Description: Equipment to raise rainbow trout in classrooms or other school spaces in partnership with Arkansas Game and Fish and NWA Trout Unlimited chapter 541. This creates authentic opportunities to explore and take part in real world biology and conservation issues, as well as applications in partnership with reputable state or non profit organizations.
Green Screen Animation Kit and Camera
Award Amount: $4,496.52
Teacher Project Description: This project seeks to acquire a state-of-the-art green screen camera and production kit to empower students to create compelling visual content. By integrating this technology into our curriculum, we will inspire creativity, promote collaboration, and prepare students for advanced careers in the digital media world.
Fossil and Metamorphosis Exploration
Award Amount: $630.90
Teacher Project Description: The items requested will be for our STEM classroom observation station. This provides students with hands on, real life specimens to observe and explore. All grades levels come to STEM class as an encore class.
Unlocking Our Voices- A Tech Adventure in ESL Learning
Award Amount: $841.70
Teacher Project Description: Students in my ESL classes will use handheld recording devices during class speaking activities to provide a more authentic practice.
COBRA Clubs: Engaging Activities for all Middle School Students
Award Amount: $5,280.00
Teacher Project Description: Enhance the overall school experience for our students, promoting a sense of belonging, school engagement, and success at school through club options.
Bringing Ramay Robotics into the Future
Award Amount: $4,989.20
Teacher Project Description: Updating Ramay robotics equipment to match the current state of the industry.
Ramay Junior High Debate Program
Award Amount: $1,000.00
Teacher Project Description: Providing an opportunity to develop communication skills and confidence through participating in debate tournaments.
Expanding students' creativity, communication and problem solving skills through makerspace
Award Amount: $1,972.31
Teacher Project Description: Expanding makerspace choices to provide hands on learning that encourages students to build creativity, communication, and problem solving skills.
Black Girl Tribe
Award Amount: $1,080.00
Teacher Project Description: This grant aims to address the integration of socio-cultural literacy with language and identity in education through the innovative use of multimodal texts, fostering connections with past and present literacy practices, technology, and the arts. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of empathy and love in engaging Black girls' families and caregivers, promoting their sense of belonging and success in educational environments, and encouraging civic engagement on community issues.
"Connect & Play: A Playground Communication Hub"
Award Amount: $1,600.00
Teacher Project Description: A durable augmentative communication board will be installed on the playground, facilitating communication for students with verbal communication difficulties, such as English learners and deaf students. This will promote inclusivity and benefit the wider community beyond school hours.
Sustainable Agriculture for Middle School GT
Award Amount: $1,956.45
Teacher Project Description: This project will be used for our sustainable agriculture unit. It will fund worms, trays, and gloves for earthworm dissection, edible insects, worm gardens, and ant farms.
Drumming Up the Joy in Music Class
Award Amount: $4,040.00
Teacher Project Description: Twenty-five Tubano drums to increase student engagement.
Cultural Experiential Learning throughout the year, hosted by/for students!
Award Amount: $4,000.00
Teacher Project Description: Three (or more) series of cultural education activities will celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, Black History Month, and AAPI & Jewish Heritage Month to unify high schoolers through experiential connections to others' lives—past, present, and future.
FHS Model United Nations
Award Amount: $3,770.00
Teacher Project Description: Students compete in regional conferences by representing assigned countries to promote diplomatic solutions.
SoNA Mentors (Music Education and Outreach)
Award Amount: $5,100.00
Teacher Project Description: Professional musicians from our orchestra offer complimentary specialized teaching to public school music programs, enhancing students' instrumental technique, audition outcomes, and school performances through hands-on supplemental instruction scheduled around teachers' availability.
Cultivating Connections While Being Culturally Empowered
Award Amount: $3,000.00
Teacher Project Description: Students will create peer and community connections through various on-campus
opportunities and field trips.
Continuing a Culture of Positive Behavior at Ramay
Award Amount: $3,000.00
Teacher Project Description: Items to stock our 5 school stores,
funding for 2 field trips, and funding for 4 quarterly incentives which students are eligible for based on earned behavior points.
FHS Mock Trial: Gavel Drop
Award Amount: $5,100.00
Teacher Project Description: Registration, equipment, travel, and hotel fees for state and international Mock Trial competitions.