A Honolulu STEM coordinator and coach at Voyager Public Charter School has received a $2,000 grant from Voya Financial, a provider of retirement plans and educators.<\/p>\n
Wrayna Fairchild has received the grant as part of Voya\u2019s 2021 Unsung Heroes awards competition. Fairchild\u2019s science, technology, engineering and mathematics lab is one of 50 winners across the country and will be considered for one of three top awards that comes with an additional $5,000, $10,000 or $25,000 prize.<\/p>\n
Voya\u2019s Unsung Heroes program has awarded grants to K-12 educators to \u201chonor their innovative teaching methods, creative educational projects, and their ability to positively influence the children they teach.\u201d It has awarded more than $5.8 million nationwide.<\/p>\n
Fairchild\u2019s \u201cExtreme Makeover: STEM Edition\u201d turned the school\u2019s outdated learning space into a \u201ctop-notch\u201d STEM lab that \u201cencourages collaboration and gives students the space they need to design innovative solutions to real-world problems.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis year, educators like Wrayna Fairchild have had to be particularly innovative to find new and creative ways to reach students to help keep them engaged during challenging times,\u201d said Angela Harrell, Voya\u2019s chief diversity and corporate responsibility officer and president, Voya Foundation, in a statement. \u201cWe are proud to support educators across the country as they go above and beyond to ensure they are connecting with their students with innovative approached to learning.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Congratulations to our LIS alumna Wrayna Fairchild, who has recently received a $2K Voya Unsung Heroes grant for her converted STEM lab that \u201cencourages collaboration and gives students the space they need to design innovative solutions to real-world problems.\u201d We’re so proud of you! From the Honolulu Star-Advertiser: A Honolulu STEM coordinator and coach at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,4,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-congratulations","category-newsroom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7054,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7052\/revisions\/7054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}