The 2018 Rogers Educational Innovation Fund selection committee has named Dwight Sharpe, an eighth-grade mathematics teacher at Woodrow Wilson Middle School in Middletown, Conn., the recipient of this inaugural award.
The Rogers Educational Innovation Fund, designated by Neag School of Education Professor Emeritus Vincent Rogers, provides a $5,000 award available annually in support of innovative projects carried out by Connecticut teachers at the elementary or middle-school levels. This gift is intended to support and expand the innovative, collaborative work of Connecticut’s classroom teachers and the Neag School of Education.
Sharpe will receive $5,000 in support of his proposed project, titled “Accessing and Engaging in Mathematics Through Robotics and Computer Programming.” The goal of the project, which was selected from among more than 40 submissions, “is to explore and determine how robotics and computer programming can be embedded into middle school instruction to improve student engagement and achievement.”
Sharpe will be formally recognized at the 2018 Neag School Alumni Awards Celebration, taking place on the Storrs campus next month.
Read more about the Rogers Fund at rogersfund.uconn.edu.
For more information, contact: Maria Martineau at MMartineau@foundation.uconn.edu