The Imaging Lab, a computer graphics and video production facility, began with one computer in a paper closet and has grown into a curriculum and facility that have been extolled nationally in magazines, books, and on television. The Lab has raised over a half-million dollars from gifts, grants, and the sale of student products. I followed this introduction with the other sections listed above, and I got the grant. Describing your program in terms that resonate with the reader's experience keeps that person in tune with what's going on in your classroom. To personalize the request, you should always include real-life stories.
Every teacher has tales from the classroom that can make a proposal come alive.
It is the stories that make your needs real for a reader. JR watched her die. The father was sent to prison and the youngster became, as one might imagine, a serious problem child. He reacted to the death by becoming unmanageable. One day as he passed the Imaging Lab, JR was attracted by the animations playing on the screens.