The Educate/Innovate Initiative has been developed through a partnership with the Vermont Lottery and the Vermont Agency of Education. The program seeks to identify schools that can integrate the use of technology into the curriculum to create or further an innovative program that supports the Education Quality Standards.  

There are multiple goals within the program:

• to further the digital learning capacity of schools in Vermont
• to provide technology to a school that can support a new or existing innovative education program 
• to improve the general public's awareness about the role the Lottery plays in supporting education 

The Vermont Agency of Education coordinates the writing and posting of the proposal requirements, and selecting the award will consist of technology for a 'makerspace' to be used in the implementation of a proposed or ongoing program. An award presentation and video to tell the story of their winning project.