Cox awards organizations supporting STEM

FROM LEFT: Jay Allbaugh, senior vice president and general manager, Cox Communications; Joseph Pratt, executive director/CEO, Boys & Girls Clubs of Newport County; Lauren Day, director of Camp Grosvenor and Youth, Boys & Girls Clubs of Newport County; and Rhode Island Treasurer Seth Magaziner, are seen at a recent event celebrating the awarding of approximately $130,000 in Cox Charities Community Grants to organizations with afterschool and summer programs focusing on STEM subjects. The Boys and Girls Clubs of Newport County received $11,192 to support its robotics program. / COURTESY COX COMMUNICATIONS
FROM LEFT: Jay Allbaugh, senior vice president and general manager, Cox Communications; Joseph Pratt, executive director/CEO, Boys & Girls Clubs of Newport County; Lauren Day, director of Camp Grosvenor and Youth, Boys & Girls Clubs of Newport County; and Rhode Island Treasurer Seth Magaziner, are seen at a recent event celebrating the awarding of approximately $130,000 in Cox Charities Community Grants to organizations with afterschool and summer programs focusing on STEM subjects. The Boys and Girls Clubs of Newport County received $11,192 to support its robotics program. / COURTESY COX COMMUNICATIONS

WEST WARWICK – Cox Communications has awarded approximately $130,000 in Cox Charities Community Grants to seven organizations with afterschool and summer programs focusing on STEM subjects – science, technology, engineering and math.

This is the 13th year that the company has awarded the grants.

“As a communications company we recognize that preparing our children for a future in technology is vital to their success,” Jay Allbaugh, senior vice president and region manager, Cox Communications, said in a statement. “We are proud to support organizations that provide our youth with access to STEM-based enrichment programs.”

Recipients were selected by elected officials, community partners and business leaders for the quality of their after-school and summer learning STEM programs, according to information from Cox.

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Cox Charities Northeast, a charitable giving initiative of Cox Communications, is fully funded by business partners and Cox employees.

Cox Charities Community Grant recipients are:

  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Newport County: $11,192 to support the clubs’ robotics program helping students build, test and evaluate products based on robotics technology utilizing Lego products.
  • The Center for Dynamic Learning in Providence: $11,939 to engage youth from Central Falls in unique learning opportunities through hands-on exploration in the fields of science, technology, engineering, arts, mathematics and manufacturing.
  • City Year Providence: $12,000 to provide 270 students at five Providence middle schools STEM enrichment activities including Ocean Explorers Club; Ready, SET (SET stands for science, engineering and technology) Explore Club and intensive math tutoring.
  • North Providence Marine Trades After School Program: $12,000 to partner students with technology educators and engineers to select boat plans, learn to read blueprints, develop action plans and a timeline to build boats.
  • Ocean Community YMCA: Arcadia Branch will receive $12,000 to offer students in the Summer Enrichment Program activities and exposure to cutting-edge careers available in the science, technology, engineering and mathematical fields.
  • YWCA Rhode Island: $12,000 to build self-esteem, perseverance and leadership skills through learning and applying basic skills in STEM-based skilled trade programs to girls in Providence.
  • The College Crusade of Rhode Island in Providence: $11,880 to provide STEM programming to students in topics such as Building a Bridge, Balls and Traps and Baking a Cake, which utilize the basic principles of math, science and engineering.

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