{"id":4328,"date":"2025-03-25T19:40:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T01:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mctmmathbits.org\/?p=4328"},"modified":"2025-04-03T09:34:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T15:34:58","slug":"foundation-update-april-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mctmmathbits.org\/?p=4328","title":{"rendered":"Foundation Update: April 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>From the MCTM Foundation<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to our Spring Conference Support Applicants \u2014The MCTM Foundation will be supporting 28 students, 3 teams, and 2 individuals.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Shelly Munoz is this year&#8217;s recipient of the Ross Taylor Grant.\u00a0 Shelly works for the Brainerd Public Schools<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you like to donate, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mctm.org\/\">https:\/\/www.mctm.org\/<\/a>\u00a0 \u2026. There is a DONATE key in the upper right corner.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Are you a Middle School Teacher looking for financial support for completing coursework in mathematics? \u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><b>Check out the Arnie Cutler Grant on: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mctm.org\/grants-scholarships\">https:\/\/www.mctm.org\/grants-scholarships<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Deadline: March 31st<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>Needed &#8211; Committee Members<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are you looking for a way to get professionally involved? The MCTM <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Foundation will be looking for at least two new committee members starting in the Fall of 2025. If this is of interest to you, the job description and a short application are available on our web page, toward the bottom of the page.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you have extra mathematics resources to donate?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do you have extra mathematics resources that you like to donate to the MCTM Foundation Book Sale at the Spring Conference?\u00a0 Any textbooks will be added to the Free table in the exhibit hall at the Spring Conference.\u00a0 Please send an email to <\/span><a href=\"mailto:Foundation@mctm.org\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Foundation@mctm.org<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> if you have things to share or just bring them to the Spring Conference. Mathematics Textbooks are put on the free table as we are not for resale.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The MCTM Foundation Booth\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">at the Spring Conference <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">will feature:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0A Book Sale<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Quilt Raffle (Created by Amy Wix)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lighthouse Wood Intarsia Wall Hanging Raffle\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Math Baskets<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Quilt Raffle (<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Quilted by Susan Westegaard)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mctmmathbits.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-27-at-8.24.02%E2%80%AFPM.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4305 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mctmmathbits.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-27-at-8.24.02%E2%80%AFPM.png?resize=910%2C456\" alt=\"\" width=\"910\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mctmmathbits.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-27-at-8.24.02%E2%80%AFPM.png?resize=1024%2C513&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mctmmathbits.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-27-at-8.24.02%E2%80%AFPM.png?resize=300%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mctmmathbits.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-27-at-8.24.02%E2%80%AFPM.png?resize=768%2C385&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mctmmathbits.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-27-at-8.24.02%E2%80%AFPM.png?w=1214&amp;ssl=1 1214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 910px) 100vw, 910px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the MCTM Foundation Congratulations to our Spring Conference Support Applicants \u2014The MCTM Foundation will be supporting 28 students, 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-4328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","tag-mctm-foundation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5riSd-17O","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mctmmathbits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mctmmathbits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mctmmathbits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mctmmathbits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mctmmathbits.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4328"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mctmmathbits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4347,"href":"https:\/\/www.mctmmathbits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4328\/revisions\/4347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mctmmathbits.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mctmmathbits.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mctmmathbits.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}