TRU Makerspace Grant (MS) Application 2022-23

Instructions

Thank you for your interest in the 2022-23 TRU Makerspace Grant.

Please carefully read the instructions below before preparing your application.

The application deadline for this round of grants is October 1, 2022 at 6:00 pm. Recipients will receive notification by Mid October, 2022.

Any questions about the application or process should be directed to Diane Janes, CELT Coordinator, at djanes@tru.ca

Proposals are invited from University Instructors, tenure-track, and tenured faculty who are interested in enhancing and building the classroom experience by adopting or experimenting with instructional approaches that challenge, support, and encourage students using technologies and modalities supported by the TRU Makerspace. This proposal must be scoped and designed to work with the pedagogical and logistical framework of the makerspace, including not interfering with access to the space by other users and centering hands-on learning, user choice, and autonomy. In addition, faculty can use this grant as a ‘proof of concept’ for other applications for curriculum changes both within and outside of the makerspace, and for future funding.

The support provided by this grant is focused on supporting students as partners in roles such as co-designers, co-researchers, student project managers, or as research assistants. All grant awardees will work with the Makerspace Librarian to help identify and manage the scope and outcomes of the project, work with CELT Coordinators to ensure strong pedagogical connections in their work and join the TRU Makerspace Community of Practice (CoP) as an active and engaged Makerspace mentor.

Streams

Grant applicants are asked to present a rationale for how their project connects to each of these streams in their application:

Experiential pedagogy
Student Interest/User Driven*
Curricular innovation

*Allows learners to focus their course activity/assignments on an area, technology, or modality of personal interest supported/approved by the instructor and the content focus

Objectives

Increase the creation, adaptation, adoption, and integration of high-quality innovation in pedagogy, using the TRU Makerspace, in TRU campus-based courses.
Grow capacity at the TRU Makerspace to support and sustain pedagogical innovation.
Engage with the TRU community to increase awareness of teaching and learning innovation using Maker modalities and pedagogies.
Become a member of the Makerspace Community of Practice to ensure strong curricular integration into your classroom activity or activities based around the Makerspace

Funding

Successful applicants may receive up to $2,000. We anticipate offering 3 awards each year.

Deadline: October 1, 2022

Results: Awards will be announced by Mid June. Projects begin on November 1 and end June 30 of the following year.

Final reports are due after the project has ended.

All grant funds must be used (and receipts submitted) no later than March 1, 2023.

Duration: 7 months (with interim report at 3 months and final at 7 months); Projects needing time beyond 1 year can apply for an extension for the project (on a case-by-case approval basis), in writing to CELT, at least 6 weeks before the end of the project (June 30, 2023); however, funds should be spent in the one-year timeframe for which the grant was awarded.

Please read full details on Eligibility, Expenses and Application information before submitting the application. All process/criteria is found on the CELT webpage site: https://www.tru.ca/celt/awards-and-fellowships.html