1992-1993 Los Angeles Educational Partnership (LAEP) $500 to connect his 4th and 5th grade class to the Internet. Al purchased a modem, a 100 ft phone cord and used his AOL account to connect his class to the Internet.

1994-1995 Josephine Bay Paul and C. Michael Paul Foundation, Inc. $3,000 to purchase a new computer and a scanner to create the school newspaper that his class put together (students from other classes submitted articles and drawings to this school paper).

1999-2000 Technology Literacy Challenge Fund (TLCF)'s Learning Space: Right in Class project over $10,000 in equipment and software plus several days of training in using technology seamlessly in the classroom.

1999-2000 Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's Teacher Leadership Project (TLP) grant over $10,000 in equipment plus 10 days of training (also in the area of using technology to improve student achievement), hotel, travel, and sub reimbursement.

2000-2001 Toshiba America Foundation $4,800 to start Chimacum's Water Quality Project!

2000-2001 EDS $1,500 to further Chimacum's Water Quality Project!

2000-2001 Friends of Chimacum Foundation $250 as seed money to purchase a digital camcorder.

2001-2002 Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's Model Schools Grant $136,000 for school improvement efforts at the middle school!

2001-2002 WA Initiative $1,800 scholarship to pay for part of National Board Certification fees

2001-2002 National Science Foundation paid for Pattern Exploration Institute training, flight to Florida, hotel and meals apprx $2,000.

2002-2003 Salute to Educator's Stepping into the Future grants $150 to purchase a Tom Snyder Decisions, Decisions program.

2002-2003 Washington Educators Association (WEA's) Innovative Educator Grant $1,500 for the Water Quality Project!

2003-2004 Got to run the Student TECH CORPS program for Chimacum Schools at the middle school and received a $1,500 grant to cover the program's costs and free training!

2003-2004 WA Initiative $600 scholarship to pay for National Board Certification retake fees.

2003-2004 OSPI's Learn and Serve America Washington grant $14,112 to add major improvements to the Water Quality Project including making it a true service learning project!

2004-2005 OSPI's Learn and Serve America Washington grant $14,028 for the Water Quality Project!

2004-2005 Got to run the Student TECH CORPS program for Chimacum Schools at the middle school for one more year again ($1,500 value) free of charge!

2005-2006 OSPI's Learn and Serve America Washington grant $12,208 for the Water Quality Project!

2006-2007 OSPI's Learn and Serve America Mini-grant $4,000 to continue and sustain the Water Quality Project!

2006-2007 Best Buy's Teach Award $2500 grant! Out of 1,300 teachers that got the $2,500 grant, I was one of the 250 schools chosen to apply for a $15,000 grant, so I did!

2006-2007 Target's Field Trip grant for $1,000! This grant will pay for part of our 6th grade water quality field trips as well as a 7th grade earth science field trip this Spring! My proposal was one of 800 chosen from over 16,000 applicants! See my 06-07 grant loot!

2006-2007 Best Buy's School Award $15,000 grant!! Out of the 250 schools chosen to apply, I was one of the 50 who won! And now we are eligible

to apply for a $250,000 district grant! We applied for the district grant but it was given to the San Diego school district. You win some, you lose some. At least we tried.

2007-2008 HP's Technology for Teaching Grant! Mr. Gonzalez, Mr. Thomsen, Mr. DiPrete, Mr. Olafson, and Ms. Langston teamed up to write a proposal for a 6, 7, 8 Math and Science project. The team of five received equipment and will get training totalling more than $31,000!

2007-2008 OSPI's Learn and Serve America Mini-grant year two funds were increased from $4,000 to $7,046! There was more money for service learning so Chimacum students get access to more field trips and more equipment to study our creek's water quality and the Hood Canal.

2007-2008 - One of six schools chosen to receive the 2007 Hooked on Hydroponics Award (the M-1 package worth $900) from the National Gardening Association!

2008-2009 - OSPI's Learn and Serve America Mini-grant year three funds were increased, again, from $4,000 to $9,000!

2009-2010 - Learn and Serve America Sustainable Design Grant for our Water Quality Project. $5,620!

2010-2011 - Learn and Serve America Sustainable Design Grant for our Water Quality Project. $10,000!

2010-2011 - Chimacum School District to use Solo 6 as part of our Water Quality Project. $2,000!

2010-2011 - WA STEM Entrepeneurial Award for $10,300 to work on using Social Networking to learn with my Math/Science PLC (Ms. Langston, Mrs. Berreth, Mr. DiPrete, Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. Schmitt, Mr. Miller and Mrs. Ploof)!

2011-2012 - Friends of Chimacum Schools Education Foundation for $595 to replace a broken Water Quality Vernier LabQuest!

92-93 $500
94-95 $3,000
99-00 $10,000
99-00 $10,000
00-01 $4,800
00-01 $1,500
00-01 $250
01-02 $1,800
01-02 $2,000
02-03 $150
02-03 $1,500
03-04 $1,500
03-04 $14,112
03-04 $600
04-05 $14,028
04-05 $1,500
05-06 $12,208
06-07 $4,000
06-07 $2,500
06-07 $1,000
06-07 $15,000
07-08 $31,000
07-08 $7,046
07-08 $900
08-09 $9,000
09-10 $5,620
10-11 $10,000
10-11 $2,000
10-11 $10,300
11-12 $595

Total $179,109 (and that's 13 straight years of being awarded grants!)

Add Gates Grant $136,000 that Al started and worked on...

Grant History Total $315,109