Project Description Country: USA Location: Payson Total Budget: $3,750 Areas of Focus: Peacebuilding and conflict prevention, Basic education and literacy, Community economic development Activity Type: Education: General Summary: Provide Touchscreen Chromebooks to first grade class to enhance learning of letters and numbers while increasing dexterity. The Payson School district has learned through the pandemic that the use of touchscreen chromebooks by beginning primary students enhances their ability to learn their letters and numbers at a quicker speed and directly impacts the student's ability to increase their limited dexterity in using a keyboard which improves the student's ability to learn no matter what the circumstances with limited resources in small communities like Payson. Last year Rotary helped the program get started at the kindergarten level and would like to continue the same program at the first grade level. According to School Superintendent these chromebooks are critical to developing these lifelong skills at an early age in a community with limited resources like Payson and for families that normally do not have access to such equipment for faster learning. This program will enhance the learning objectives of young students and will follow them through their entire coursework over the next twelve years in the Payson school district. Project Contact Person District: 5495 Rotary Club of: Rim Country-Payson Primary Contact: Valerie Lubken Email: randee4@hotmail.com Project Status Completed This project is "Completed". This means the project has been implemented and the report was accepted by the district leadership. The project will stay listed on this website as a testimony of the achievements of the project partners. Project listed for the 2021-22 Rotary Year.

Proposed Financing Existing Contributions Towards This Project Date Cash DDF Total Rim Country-Payson (5495) 25-May-21 $1,250 $2,500 $3,750 Total $1,250 $2,500 $3,750

Project Supporting Documents Alphabetical with icons By date with icons Alphabetical list format By date list format [27-May-21] Club MOU [7-Mar-22] Final report [28-Feb-22] Rotary district grant paid inv [28-Feb-22] Rotary district grant paid inv

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History Log Entries 25-May-21 by Valerie Lubken System Entry: Creation of project page. 26-May-21 by Rebecca Wilks Initial project review: (1) please submit your club's MOU (2) please add your president-elect to the email/signature list in the administration section. 27-May-21 by Rebecca Wilks I've entered your president-elect in the signature list. Please let me know if the name and/or email is incorrect. 28-May-21 by Rebecca Wilks System Entry: Project sent for club signatures. 28-May-21 by Rebecca Wilks System Entry: Project signed by Rebecca Wilks. 28-May-21 by Rebecca Wilks System Entry: Project signed by Rebecca Wilks. 31-May-21 by Valerie Lubken System Entry: Project signed by Valerie Lubken. 31-May-21 by Hallie Jackman System Entry: Project signed by Hallie Jackman. 19-Jun-21 by Rebecca Wilks Congratulations. Your project has been approved. You will receive the funds by electronic transfer in about two weeks. 19-Jun-21 by Rebecca Wilks System Entry: Project approved by the District Approval Committee. 3-Aug-21 by Rebecca Wilks I'm so sorry for the inconvenience, but (though the "block" district grant has been approved) The Rotary Foundation has not yet released the funds. It's frustrating when things like this are out of our hands, but we hope to be sending money to the clubs very soon. Thanks for your patience. 29-Aug-21 by Rebecca Wilks District Grant funds are available. To avoid further delay, please email a scanned or photographed voided check (on the account you'd like to funds transferred to) to District Treasurer Rex Townsend, rext5495@gmail.com 9-Sep-21 by Rebecca Wilks System Entry: Check for DDF payment issued by Foundation Treasurer. 8-Mar-22 by Rebecca Wilks System Entry: Project has been implemented and final report uploaded. 8-Mar-22 by Rebecca Wilks System Entry: Final report approved by the District Approval Committee.