Natick School Receives $8K In Grant Funds For STEM Studies

NATICK, MA — Natick's Kennedy Middle School will have some new tech to learn with this coming fall along with funding for STEM activities, thanks to $8,000 in grant funding from Cognex. The district applied for the grants in the company's Community Donations Program earlier in the year and announced they received the funding on Tuesday.

Cognex Corporation is a Natick-based manufacturing company that donates funding to schools in the community to initiate, support, or enhance innovative teaching and learning. Natick was given two grants, one for $5,000 for a 3D printer. The printer will be used in the 6th-grade Life Science classes at Kennedy. The funding would also go toward several course that will be taught alongside the new printer.

Another $3,000 grant will be dedicated to the Kennedy Middle School math teams. In the school, 20 to 30 students in grades 5 through 8 participate in the math team from September through April. The donation from Cognex goes to bus transportation to each competition, Intermediate Math League of Eastern Massachusetts dues, snacks for team members, t-shirts for team members, hosting the other schools once a year, and an end of the year celebration.

Students will kickoff the 2019-2020 school year with new tech and ready to learn.