Cox Communications’ Charities Community Grants annually help Northeast Ohio organizations provide STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math) and youth enrichment programming.

Recently announced recipients include Old Brook High School’s Parma campus.

​

“This year, we chose to award Cox Charities grants to two schools and a library -- places where kids and their families gather to celebrate achievements and explore the possibilities of a brighter tomorrow,” Cox Communications Market Vice President Robert Brill said in a press release.

The Manton Avenue Project, a nonprofit that seeks to empower youths through theater, will receive a $10,000 technology upgrade courtesy of Cox Communications. The Olneyville organization was one of three nonprofits to receive a Tech Boost grant in Cox's Northeast region. “The Manton Avenue Project has been a pillar of innovation for Providence…

On tables and workbenches around the newly named Cox Innovation Lab at the Boys & Girls Club of Meriden lay computers, robotics kits, lego kits, 3D printers, models, books and other items.

They’re already in use by children who attend the club’s afterschool programming, like six-year-old Thiago Tirado and his sisters, Liatmy, 10, and Alison, who is nine. The three of them beamed when discussing what they’re currently working on, and what they hope to learn about in the coming months.