SECTION VII: FUNDING PRIORITIES (TOTAL POINTS 10) – OVERALL, HOW WELL DOES THE PROPOSAL SUPPORT THE FOLLOWING FOUR FUNDING PRIORITY AREAS:
Funding Priority Area
Pts. Possible
Pts. Awarded
Reviewer Notes
Benefits to the Early Learning Field: Priority will be given to projects that demonstrate the capacity to inform the early learning field on how to increase STEM success for children, families, and communities.
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Innovation Approach: Priority will be given to projects that develop innovative ways to solve an identified problem in the community or organization.
3
Use of Relevant Data to Identify Biggest Opportunity to Address STEM: Priority will be given to projects that utilize existing data from your organization and community to highlight STEM challenges. This might be anything from STEM Identity workforce program data to Washington Kindergarten Inventory of Developing Skills (WaKIDS).
2
Support of Underrepresented and Underserved Communities: Priority will be given to projects that identified and highlight how the organization will work with young children of the population who currently are underrepresented and underserved in the STEM workforce.
Zeno is dedicated to building a sustainable math culture by partnering with schools and community organizations to create an engaging math environment where kids, teachers and parents work together to help all kids succeed in math. Zeno serves partners in Western Washington, primarily those in Seattle and Puget Sound. The organization began in 2003, when parents in the Lake Washington School District were compelled to share the success of a math program their children enjoyed. Those parents convinced their PTA to sponsor a similar math program in two underprivileged Seattle schools and Zeno was born. Since then, Zeno has worked with over 50 schools and community organizations, to teach others how to instill a love for math and to inspire a sense of empowerment in using math, especially for kids underexposed to the possibilities of their own math power. What does that look like? It's a parent or caregiver learning how to showcase and play with math in the home; it's a teacher providing after-school activities that are so unexpectedly fun that math becomes an extracurricular treat. It's working together with our community to build brighter academic futures for kids and help them discover they are Math Powered.
