2023 Grant Recipients
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Bret Harte Elementary School - Math Stackers: Hands On Math!
Edison Elementary School - Picture Perfect: Edison Arts Wheel
Edison Elementary School - Native American Historical Fiction Set
Emerson Elementary School - Literacy Enrichment for GATE Students
George Washington Elementary School - Inclusion STEM Building
Joaquin Miller Elementary School - Science of Reading, Intervention K-2
Joaquin Miller Elementary School - Building Foundational Skills with Evidence-Based Reading in Mind
Joaquin Miller Elementary School - Supporting Early Readers in 1st Grade
Providencia Elementary School - Expanding All Providencia Elementary School DEI Classroom Libraries
Providencia Elementary School - DEI and Science Assembly Series
Robert Louis Stevenson Elementary School - One Book One School
Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School - Using Technology to Maximize the Benefits of Inclusion
Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School - Engaging Hands-on Math Tool Kits for Upper Elementary
Thomas Jefferson Elementary School - Cutting Edge Technology to Extend Inclusion
Dolores Huerta Middle School - Science into the 21st Century with PocketLabs Sensors
John Muir Middle School - John Muir Middle School String Instruments
Luther Burbank Middle School - IMA Instrument & Methods Books
Burbank Community Day School - BCDS Visual Arts Student Workshops
John Burroughs High School - Film & Television Production DSLR’s and Supporting Equipment
1. Bret Harte Elementary School
Making Math Fun
30 magnetic white boards (class set) with Expo markers and erasers. The students can build numbers, learn math facts, and write equations to help them understand number sense. They will use the magnetic white boards with "Math Stacker" manipulatives. "Math Stackers" are magnets that build math thinking in a fun, hands on way. They will use the expo markers and erasers to write the equations after building them with the Math Stackers. The students will also use these magnetic whiteboards to practice name writing as well as letter and word work.
2. Bret Harte Elementary School
Math Stackers: Hands On Math
Math Stackers are manipulatives in the form of magnetic tiles and soft, foam blocks. These manipluatives allow students to physically interact with numbers by size and work with fundamentals of adding and subtracting numbers to make equivalent numbers, to visualize how numbers are added together, to add and subtract different numbers to get the same solution.
3. Bret Harte Elementary School
Clay Consultant
Every student in every classroom will have at least one opportunity to take a project from clay through glazing and firing stages as taught by a Clay Consultant who has been trained in the entire cycle of the clay to firing process. The Clay Consultant will also teach students clay molding techniques and oversee the kiln firing schedule, train teachers on safe use of the kiln, and oversee the supplies required for these projects.
4. Edison Elementary School
Picture Perfect: Edison Arts Wheel
Our Fine Arts Wheel Program originated in the fall of 2017 and stemmed from the need to fill in the artistic gaps in the educational structure of the Edison Elementary curriculum. We created the Fine Arts Wheel, with resident artist instruction-based workshops, in hopes of establishing a formal arts framework that allowed students access to a quality arts educational program, tapping into the imaginative and innovative aspect of learning. In 2017, our school purchased 16 cameras to use in the photography rotation of the Arts Wheel. Students worked in pairs to learn and execute photography skills. Over the past six years, the need for each student to operate their own camera has become apparent.
5. Edison Elementary School
Native American Historical Fiction Set
Deepening students' understanding of the complex societies that existed in America before Europeans arrived, through a study of the novel, Peacemaker, by Joseph Bruchac. Our "Social Studies Alive!" curriculum provides informational texts to assist in teaching only a broad survey of Native American Cultural Regions. With the addition of a historical-fiction text to the curriculum, students will be able make deeper connections, as they dive into a more personal story of Iroquois villagers, prior to European colonization.
6. Emerson Elementary School
Classroom Easel
I am a new Kindergarten teacher to Burbank Unified and my classroom needs an easel! Currently I do not have a white board in the classroom that is low enough and big enough for the students to use. Having this easel will allow me to complete things like circle maps and thinking maps at a lower level so all the students can see it.
7. Emerson Elementary School
Literacy Enrichment for GATE Students
This project will help support GATE learners and other high-achieving students. The novels selected are high interest, diverse, and challenge students to think critically about the world at large.
8. Emerson Elementary School
RTI Materials
Our young elementary students are in need of hands-on materials to help them with phonics, decoding, phonemic awareness, and vocabulary development.
9. Emerson Elementary School
TK Learn and Play
We now have a diverse housekeeping area with babies of all ethnicities, play food/cooking supplies that represent different cultures, dress up clothes that are gender neutral, a varied library, and puzzles/art supplies that represent all types of families. What's lacking though is our outdoor space. We have a small area with a climbing apparatus and black top for large motor play. There is no shade shelter or quiet zone for calm play. I'd love to create an outdoor space for children to learn and play that can be zoned for active, large motor play and development as well as a quiet, calm corner for sensory and fine motor development. Now that the district is opening TK to younger 4 year olds, we'll need an area that the littles can safely be rough and silly, but also have places to relax and create.
10. Washington Elementary School
Inclusion STEM Building
This year, I am collaborating with the second-grade Language Enriched Autism Program (LEAP) Teacher to dedicate times in the school day when students in the self-contained classroom are able to spend time with their second-grade peers inside of my classroom. I am planning activities where students who are challenged by social skills can feel successful building structures with or near same-aged peers. Students on my roster are also enjoying these activities and expanding their understanding of physics concepts, such as; motion, gravity, force, and magnetism. Students will eventually conduct short presentations to explain their project and process. Funds will allow me to purchase materials, so students are able to creatively build large structures within small groups and/or small scale builds in parallel to peers depending upon social skills and stamina. I seek to gather a variety of building materials, so students remain interested and inquisitive every time that materials are offered.
11. Miller Elementary School
Science of Reading: Intervention K-2
Tier 3 Students are those who are considered struggling in a specific academic area. During the regular school day, RTI teachers use small groups to provide targeted, explicit instruction to take tier 3 students in K-2 to the next level and teach them to be confident, fluent readers with a focus on phonics, phonemic awareness, and language building. With the use of phonics manipulatives such as "Teaching Tubs," our large population of English Language Learners will access the phonics element of reading, and also the vocabulary and comprehension component of reading. The science of reading method necessitates that children learn decoding and encoding of words through orthographic mapping, taught through Write and Wipe Word Mapping Boards and using hands-on letter manipulatives like magnet letters and letter tiles. These are excellent tools for children to visualize a word and break it into manageable parts. All the tools requested by this grant will be used directly with those students who are at greatest risk for not reading and have already fallen significantly behind their peers.
12. Joaquin Miller Elementary School
Building Foundational Skills with Evidence Based Reading in Mind
The hands-on magnet grapheme and phoneme magnet set will be a game changer as my students will be able to use these tools to manipulate sounds with ease. Over the past couple years, I have printed, laminated, cut out letter tiles and have stuck Velcro dots to create 12 sets of letter mats to be shared in small groups and partner activities. Twelve sets of letter mats that include traditional alphabet sounds, digraphs, trigraphs, vowel teams, r-controlled vowels, inflectional endings, floss endings and etc. equate to approximately 1,500 tiles and Velcro dots. Though it was a labor of love, these unfortunately are not as durable as I had hoped as they get used by 6-7 year olds each day. Additionally, the teacher’s manual and curriculum I have bought are just that– guides. However, the Top Ten Tools from Tools 4 Reading Teacher Courses would give me the why and the how. It would give me the tools and the language to better understand where my students are at cognitively in their language acquisition and understanding.
13. Joaquin Miller Elementary School
Supporting Early Readers in 1st Grade
The first graders at Miller do not currently have access to a rich source of true decodable texts to develop their literacy skills. We would like to start building up a decodable text library. The ultimate goal would be to have 6-12 books per classroom (there are five 1st grade classrooms) that feature each of the different phonics skills taught in first grade. This would allow for small group instruction with these decodable texts for all students. FlyLeaf offers decodable texts that meet this need, with four different series covering all of the phonics skills from emergent reading through end-of-first-grade phonics skills. Given the cost of these decodables, the initial project would be a single classroom set that could be shared across the gradelevel. If additional funding were to become available, we would expand this to reach our ultimate goal of 5 class sets.
14. Providencia Elementary School
Expanding All Providencia Elementary Schoool DEI Classroom Libraries
This proposed grant aims to expand every general education and special education classroom library at Providencia Elementary School. This grant would allow us to buy the remaining D.E.I. books listed on the BUSD D.E.I. toolkit for every teacher at Providencia Elementary School.
15. Providencia Elementary School
DEI & Science Assembly Series
The assembly Series will provide all Providencia Elementary students with educational, hands-on experiences and exploration opportunities focusing on the science of sound and "Newton's Laws of Motion" through exciting experiments from "Mad Science" in addition to exploration and appreciation for the world's diverse cultural traditions of Brazil, Peru, and Japan’s cultures through music, dance, theatre, and storytelling from performances through The Music Center. The project will provide all students equitable access to knowledge and experiences in understanding people from diverse cultures through song, dance, and music. Additionally, this program will provide our students with hands-on experiences in science, a reality they would otherwise not experience. This program will result in our students growing in understanding and appreciation for people from diverse backgrounds and aspiring to study science in college and pursue a career in the sciences.
16. Robert Louis Stevenson Elementary School
One Book One School
The Stevenson Elementary community would like to participate in One School, One Book. With One School, One Book, you select a book and each student in your school receives a copy to read at home as a family. At school, students celebrate and explore the novel with their classmates. This essential strategy reinforces reading instruction, increases parental involvement, bridges the home-school connection, and builds a true community of readers.
17. Roosevelt Elementary School
Using Technology to Maximize the Benefits of Inclusion
The challenge that I would like to address with this grant is how to help students with more significant mobility, vision, developmental, and fine motor participate meaningfully in their inclusion classes. Every year, we have a number of students who aren’t able to perform well and show what they know without specialized equipment and programs. I have discovered a remarkable software program called Clicker. It’s a complete writing, and reading solution that provides every student with just the right level of support and challenge. It’s a comprehensive tool for literacy. I have also found adaptive equipment that would help my students use technology independently. There is a mouse called Big Track that has oversized parts that enable students with limited mobility to be successful. I would also like to purchase keyboards with larger, brightly colored keys. The alternative is having an adult work the mouse and type and that is not helping my students be independent and feel pride in their abilities.
18. Roosevelt Elementary School
Engaging Hands-on Math Tool Kits For Upper Elementary
The individual tool kits will provide students with a hands-on exploratory experience in mathematics. They will serve 6 classes, 2 grade levels (grades 4 and 5), and 3 teachers.
19. Jefferson Elementary School
Cutting Edge Technology to Extend Inclusion
In my previous district I had a View Sonic in my classroom and got to see the benefit firsthand! All the students loved it because it gave them a chance to interact with their learning while learning technology. I would love to bring one into my classroom here in Burbank. In my current classroom we have an old projector where I have to run to the back of my classroom to click each time I want to use it. It would really benefit the students if I could remain in front of the classroom while teaching them compared to running back and forth loosing their attention. I would use the board daily in all aspects of learning as most my students require visuals to help them learn. It would also help improve behaviors because the students could physically touch the screen to click on movement breaks they've learned, it will show them timers, and give them opportunities to interact with the technology.
20. Walt Disney Elementary School
Disney Elementary Access, Equity, Arts & Social Emotional Learning
Our hope is to leverage Prop 28 funding with BAEF funds to provide SEL and teambuilding training for teachers, as well as 6 weeks of dance and 35 weeks of music instruction for every Disney student. Teachers will also be encouraged to participating in training in visual and theatre arts provided by BUSD, and cultural arts institutions, such as The Getty, Skirball, Center Theatre, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Funding for substitutes and/or extra hourly will support their participation in these programs.
21. Dolores Huerta Middle School
Bringing Middle Schools Science into the 21st Century with PocketLabs Sensors
Teachers will be trained to use sensors from thePocket Lab Classroom STEM Bundle to allow students to collect data from labs and engineering design challenges wirelessly in real time. The sensors will be used to record data that is part of current labs/investigations, but for which we do not currently have measuring devices. It will also be used to enhance project based learning activities and experiments by allowing students to collect data on things like velocity, barometric pressure, light intensity, carbon dioxide, particulate matter, ozone, humidity, magnetic fields, acceleration and position among others.
22. Muir Middle School
String Instruments
Our string inventory is woefully out of date, with students playing on instruments that are lacking the proper materials and equipment needed to properly play. Many of these instruments have not been serviced since the 1990's. Only a small handful of our violins and violas have shoulder rests, which makes it almost impossible for our beginners to develop good technique. In addition, our string players are playing with bows that desperately need to be replaced, as they have been well used over the past two decades. We as a program are required to provide instruments to our students, and we want to make sure that we can provide them with equipment that is playable. With this grant, we hope to provide every violinist and viola with a proper shoulder rest and a good quality student model bow. In addition, we are hoping to also provide all of our bass students with a proper bow, so they too can experience success playing their instruments.
23. Muir Middle School
Counseling Center
This semester, our teacher work room is being converted to a counseling center that will house the offices for our 4 counselors. The space will also have a meeting room and a "hang out" area for students. The project will include purchasing comfortable furniture, welcoming decor, games, supplies, and tools to promote wellness for our students.
24. Muir Middle School
Stringed Instrument Instructor
The Instrumental Music Program at John Muir Middle School would like to retain the services of the extraordinary, Gherman Markosian, who will assist in teaching the strings students in our band. We have 210 students in our band program, and we had to turn students away. I want to take every single student. I am willing to take on 70+ students if it will help develop a love of music in our youth. My dream is for each student to develop proper technique and etiquette. I want the students to learn to read music and to enjoy playing with their peers. With Gherman assisting, I can work with more students. Gherman and I can refine more skills, and we can educate our students in the best way possible, giving as many students access to a robust curriculum as possible.
25. Muir Middle School
Ms. Campbell's Diversity Library
There is nothing more powerful in greeting empathy than understanding someone through their stories. I want to purchase books for my classroom library to help students understand the perspectives of others through reading diverse stories.
26. Muir Middle School
Ms. Steven's Diversity Library
There is nothing more powerful in greeting empathy than understanding someone through their stories. I want to purchase books for my classroom library to help students understand the perspectives of others through reading diverse stories.
27. Muir Middle School
Reading is FUNdamental
I want to order books for my classroom library. These are books this year's students have requested and recommended, as well as some books from lists to help diversify libraries. The library is robust and used every day by all my students.
28. Luther Burbank Middle School
Auditorium Sound System
The Luther Middle School is the central gathering space for all students, faculty, staff, and families. Our sound system is an important element of every assembly and student performance. Our current sound system is aged and frequently malfunctions disrupting assemblies and student performances. If funded we will be able to replace our current sound mixing board, 1⁄2 of the mics that need replacing, and ancillary equipment that is required to connect the mixer to other elements of the sound system. Like 2 other middle schools in Burbank, we offer our students access to high quality performing arts instruction an prepare them for Arts, Media, & Entertainment pathways programs in high schools. Because our enrollment declined, we lost our full time visual arts teacher this school year. 100% of Luther’s allotted Prop 28 funds will be needed to cover the salary and statutory benefits to restore the Visual Arts teacher position. This means there will not be additional funding for equipment upgrades, materials, supplies, professional development, artist in residencies, or music coaches. Our programs will continue to fundraise for these important elements of a quality arts education while other school programs are able to redirect fundraising towards other important needs.
29. Luther Burbank Middle School
DEIA & STEAM Library Refresh
Luther Burbank Middle School's DEIA & STEAM Library Refresh project aims to provide our students with new tools and resources needed to succeed and master new skills. This summer, we sorted and went through our entire collection and weeded out titles that needed updated copies and/or were obsolete. Even though weeding created a large gap on our bookshelves, this was needed to remove titles that are no longer relevant or had misinformation. We noticed there was also a discrepancy in the amount of BIPOC and LGBTQ+ biographies and narratives in our nonfiction section, which is essential for student research and representation. We would like to fill our library with books about individuals like Tu Youyou and her contribution medical science, Simon Biles and her experience as an athlete, and Sandra Cisneros and her contributions to Chicanx youth literature. We also hope to include titles that inspire students to create and showcase their talents in the library, such as How-to's, cookbooks, and books about science experiments. We intend to select titles that are timeless and will continue to inspire students and generations to come.
30. Luther Burbank Middle School
IMA Instruments and Methods Books
We have developed a long term, prioritized plan to begin bridging gaps in the overall Luther Instrumental Music program. We are requesting funds towards the purchase items listed within the plan's top three priorities: 2 violas and viola cleaning kits, 3 violins and cleaning kits, and 90 methods books.
31. Luther Burbank Middle School
LBMS Math Development Library
The math department would like to create a math library of books that teachers could use to enhance our program as well as books that students will have access to which promote diversity in mathematics and math related concepts. We plan to use the books in lessons as well as have students check out the books for reading during class. Several of the books will be used to explore the history of math in order to excite students about the future of math.
32. Luther Burbank Middle School
Luther's Outdoor Classroom
Luther's Outdoor Classroom and Meditation Space. All teachers will have access to the outdoor classroom whereby they can bring their classes to complete assignments. Counselors may use the space for student wellness and mindful practices. Culinary classes will tend to the edible portion of the garden.
33. Burbank Community Day School
Visual Arts Student Workshops
Monthly visual arts workshops for students from Educator and Artist Alvaro Asturias, learning about different cultures and traditions from around the world
34. Burbank High School
Baritone Saxophone
The instrumental music program at Burbank High is in desperate need of a baritone saxophone. We have three broken baritones that are so broken and so old that they are no longer fixable. One, in particular, is not playable anymore, and we have multiple students who have a passion for this instrument. It is heartbreaking to watch a student who practices and loves the low tones of the bari sax not be able to get the sounds out of an instrument they have worked so hard to learn. Additionally, the bari sax is essential to our music- to jazz band, to marching band, to full program concerts. Without it, the songs are not the same. Music is a collaboration on so many levels and working instruments are essential to positive student outcomes in our program.
35. Burbank High School
Color Guard
The Color Guard at Burbank High School is a co-curricular course and a performance ensemble that utilizes drill design, choreography, equipment, and body movement to interpret music and perform with the marching band. It teaches the art of dance through sport. The Color Guard at Burbank High School is in desperate need of equipment to perform. We are also hoping for help with choreography in the second semester. The Color Guard community is a close group who love what they do, and they need new flags, safer poles that will spin correctly, and a choreographer that understands the sport.
36. Burbank High School
BHS Drama Program Lighting Upgrade
Upgrade two Drama Classroom incandescent lights to newer, cost effective LED lights.
37. Burbank High School
Stand For Music
Stand for Music and give our students the gift of new music stands! Musicians cannot play without music stands, and our students are in desperate need of new ones. Currently, we have so many broken stands that broken stands are standard. In the beginning of the season, we painted and tightened every unit, but year after year, they have been painted over and tightened too many times to be effective anymore. These stands have lasted as long as anyone can remember. We tried to track down the last time we purchased stands, and the only information we have is that about ten years ago, someone bought and donated 10-15 new ones. Considering their constant use and daily wear and tear, these stands have been an incredible investment, and they have held up well. We are seeking to replace them with more of the same, so they will last so long that decades later, no one will remember when we got these incredible, new stands. In addition to the stands, we need a few more stand lights and lightbulbs. Finally, our Marching Band is also struggling to keep up with the times and is in need of a rolling backdrop. They are standard in competitions today. Our students are feeling like BHS looks second rate when they see the other teams wheeling out their stunning, themed backdrops, and we have nothing to share. We want to show off our hard work, dedication, and creativity with a backdrop frame of our own, complete with our first themed vinyl banner! Our students will stand taller and march more proudly with the proper props. We want to show the other schools and our students that Burbank Unified Takes a Stand for Music!
38. Burroughs High School
AP African American Studies
Burbank Unified is one of 800 school piloting the new AP African American Studies course. I am applying for this grant to gather resources when starting a new course. I want to use the money for art projects and supplies related to the class (next week we are painting mask based on research the students have done on ancient and medieval African empires, from Egypt to the Kongo). I also want organize a field trip to the Los Angeles Museum of African American history. I would also like to use the funds to have some food encounters with the kids, such as traditional African cuisines and foods that exist in America that were brought here by Africans such as gumbo, jambalaya, feijoada (black beans and meat), even the concept of barbequing with different wood to add flavor to meat was an African tradition (I do not plan on having a live BBQ at a school site). I would also like to purchase books for the class.
39. Burroughs High School
Brighten Burroughs Strings
Brighten our musicians future and give our students access to string instruments and stand lights. Students are currently only to play string ensembles in one of Burbank's two high schools. Supporting this program means creating an equitable environment for all students in BUSD and providing opportunities for growth at the individual level. Students are already using borrowed instruments from neighboring middle schools and this would give students at a high school level a chance to continue their musical education on string instruments rather than changing to another wind instrument. Musicians also cannot play in the dark during concert performances and currently direct stage lighting is needed to provide students opportunities to play during our concerts.
40. Burroughs High School
Campus Beautification
Purchase of art supplies will allow our JBHS students to create and display artwork on our campus which will reflect our school community and strengthen positive school identity. This grant will allow the purchase of art supplies such as canvases and paint to create community art projects to display to our entire school. We will be working with admin, various departments, and clubs to represent diversity, equity, and inclusion in the artwork displayed.
41. Burroughs High School
College Peer Mentor Classroom
The college Peer mentor program operates out of a typical classroom often set up for education rather than one-on-one meetings. Our proposal entails purchasing multiple chairs and tables so that throughout the process of meeting with mentees, Mentors can be stationed at larger tables, allowing for better connections between mentee and mentor. These mentoring setups will also allow us to one day set up extra computers to use during mentoring sessions instead of the uncomfortable use of personal computers by mentees that often lose power (resulting in mentors being unable to complete their meetings on allotted days).
42. Burroughs High School
Culinary Lab Refresh
The culinary kitchen lab has not seen an upgrade of major equipment in 20+ years. The exception of a new reach-in refrigerator was purchased 3 years ago. The current ranges are at end-of life and not all work the same; students face issues lighting burners, not all burners put out the correct BTU (heat), ovens have not been calibrated to determine they are at the correct temperature. This grant would allow the purchase some of the needed 6 new ranges.
43. Burroughs High School
Film & Television Production DSLR's and Supporting Equipment
This is an expansion on a project that I applied for last year, "JBHS Digital Media DSLRs." Last year I applied for a $5,000 grant and was awarded $2,500. I was able to partially finish the project, but this year I want to finish and expand on it. Currently I have 7 identical DSLR cameras that my Film/TV Production I students use in five different class periods. I still need to purchase two additional cameras so that all production teams have equitable access to equipment in order to complete their practical assessments and video projects. Last year I hoped to purchase tripods, but was unable to, so this year I am also hoping to use grant funding to purchase five additional tripods so that every production teams as equitable access to the same support equipment. I hope to expand on this project to have a larger impact by including equipment to support my advanced TV Production II & III class and students. Currently the 23 students in my advanced TV Production II & III class have to share two advanced DSLR cameras and microphone kits. They use these cameras and kits to produce content for our award-winning daily live news show, Good Morning John Burroughs. I want to purchase an additional camera and microphone kit so that more students can have equitable access to the equipment. This project will continue to enhance the Film & Television Production career technical education pathway at JBHS.
44. Burroughs High School
Mirrorless Cameras
Purchase of Mirrorless Cameras. As an Arts Media and Entertainment teacher I feel that keeping the students introduced to the latest technology will keep them competitive when it comes to finding a job directly out of high school. I believe that having mirrorless cameras in my class will benefit students now and years to come as we continue to see changes in technology Having the latest equipment will help students gain more knowledge about the photography field. These cameras can also be used by Yearbook photographers and help them grow in their skills in the photography for the school yearbook publication.
45. Burroughs High School
Visual Arts Student Workshops
A well-equipped theatrical scene shop/stagetech class is a tremendous asset to any school theatre/arts program. Equipment should be suitable to the tasks envisioned and in good working order, and a viable training program is essential for students to attain skills needed for a career backstage. My goal as the new teacher for Stagecraft at JBHS is to have a well stocked tool kit with both industry standard materials along with safety equipment for 15 students during ALL shows and programs. This will not only provide an organized system for our students that are pulling equipment constantly, but ensuring that safety is a top priority.
46. Burroughs High School
Supporting Our Singers
The John Burroughs Vocal Music Association seeks funding to support our project, which focuses on enhancing the safety and functionality of our student choir practices and performances. We aim to acquire 3 new choir riser supports. The choir risers are used during the traditional school day during and for all choir classes. The specific equipment requested are 3 portable choir riser understructures which support the decks on which the student performers stand. The John Burroughs show choir has been in desperate need of new risers for many years. The current riser structures cannot guarantee our student’s safety. Recently, the choir purchased new riser decks. However, we lack the funds to purchase the deck supports on which the decks would sit. The specific riser structures requested have no loose parts nor tools required for assembly, which allows for less margin of error in assembly and greater student safety. The requested riser structure is designed to facilitate safe access to wiring and road case storage, thereby reducing the risk of injury for individuals responsible for setting up the risers, including tech crew students.