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Houston Independent School District

The Houston Independent School District is the largest school district in Texas and the eighth-largest in the United States. It serves over 194,000 students at 276 campuses, from which 75% come from low-income families.

Back to School Event

For several years, alliantgroup has been committed to donating school supplies and learning materials for students in need. We have partnered with the following HISD schools for back-to-school events:

  • Parker Elementary – Donated over 200 backpacks filled with school supplies
  • Stevens Elementary – Donated over 700 STEAM kits for at home learning during COVID-19
  • Gregory Lincoln Education Center – Donated over 200 backpacks filled with school supplies, uniforms, shoes and partnered with HEB to donate hygiene products
  • Bonner Elementary – Donated over 200 backpacks filled with school supplies and uniforms

STEM Field Trips

alliantgroup has sponsored several STEM field trips to Space Center Houston for underserved third & fifth grade classes each school year. Popular destinations include Space Center Houston and the Houston Museum of Natural Science.

HISD Foundation

Matt Noll | Chairman of the Board

The Houston ISD Foundation is dedicated to mobilizing the local community in support of innovative priorities to improve outcomes for all students in the district. In June 2021, they announced that our Chief Operating Officer, Matthew Noll was appointed its Chairman of the Board.

“We are thrilled to have Matthew as our Chairman. He has been an integral part of the HISD Foundation’s board of directors since 2019 and we look forward to his leadership and support in realizing our mission,” said Katherine W. Smith, HISD Foundation Executive Director.

Innovation Grant

The Houston ISD Foundation created the Innovation Grant are to recognize and support excellence in innovation by providing funds to enhance Houston ISD elementary, middle, and high school programs and curriculum. This is a competitive grants program designed to encourage teachers to develop innovative projects that lead to increased student success.

In March 2019, alliantgroup awarded a $10,000 grant to Bellaire High School for their “Water Works-A Community and Global Water Quality Project.”

  • With that money, the biology & aquatic science students were able to purchase proper equipment to conduct these water quality studies.
  • alliantgroup also sponsored a field trip for teachers & 300 students in October 2019 for to Bolivar Peninsula to gather samples for water quality studies.
  • alliantgroup engineers chaperoned the field trip to provide expert insight and guidance.

In March 2020, alliantgroup awarded a $7,000 grant to Booker T. Washington High School for their “Payload Design and Fabrication for Sounding Drone Project.”

STEM Summit

When you bring brilliant minds together, amazing things happen. alliantgroup had the pleasure of hosting a diverse panel of some of the most influential experts in STEM education. But why is STEM education so important to us at alliantgroup?

Our mission is to strengthen American businesses, and one of the ways we do that is to advocate for STEM education in order to fill the prevailing technical talent gap existing within our country’s businesses. Innovation is at the core of technical talent, and directly affects America’s growth.

“It’s a big issue, and when you have a group of experts like we had today, you really get lots of different perspectives on it” -Dhaval Jadav