After writing a grant that resulted in a nearly $6 million award from the California Career Pathways Trust, we got to work to assist with project management, data collection and analysis, and reporting and compliance. See the impact a grant like this can have in the hands of passionate educators by watching this short video of one student’s story.

Our role:

• Grant writing
• Project management
• Data collection and analysis
• Reporting and compliance

Results:

Bayha Group wrote grants that resulted in $5,882,229 (California Career Pathways Trust grant); $987,000 (California Apprenticeship Initiative New Innovation Grant) for Downey Unified School District

The funding allowed a total of 31 high school juniors (from zero the previous year) to complete a six-week paid summer on-the-job experience in 2016 and another 35 students in 2017.

DUSD was also able to launch innovative and fun student activities as a result of the grant, including:

• Tours of Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Niantic, University of Southern California (USC)
• One- and two-week UCLA Nanoscience Summer Institutes
• FIRST and VEX Robotics competitions
• Fast & Furious Science event
• Dare 2B Digital event with Innovation Challenge
• Science of the Marvel Cinematic Universe event
• Opportunities to program the NAO robot and present to a panel of expert scientists.