Lesson 08 · Activity 03

Synthesize & Verify

A clean table looks trustworthy — that’s the danger. Here you’ll check an AI-compiled grant table against its sources, catch the cells that are wrong, stale, or unsupported, and add the one opportunity it missed.

Work through it

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Read what each source page says.
Compare the AI table to the sources.
Mark each row’s cells as OK or flagged.
Add the missing opportunity (Grant D) as a new row from its source.
Compare to the model answer.

What the source pages actually say

Grant A (Federal STEM): deadline Aug 14, 2026 · up to $1.5M · eligibility: K-12 districts only Grant B (State Dept. of Ed): rolling deadline · up to $400K · eligibility: 2-year colleges Grant C (Private Foundation): deadline Jan 9, 2026 (now passed) · up to $50K · eligibility: any nonprofit Grant D (Regional Consortium): deadline Oct 1, 2026 · up to $250K · eligibility: community colleges

The AI-compiled table

Grant	Deadline	Amount	Eligibility
A	Aug 14, 2026	$1.5M	K-12 and community colleges
B	Rolling	$400K	2-year colleges
C	Open	$50K	Any nonprofit

Your verification

For each row, note what you checked and whether it holds. Saved on this device.

Row	What you checked	Holds? (yes/no)
Grant A
Grant B
Grant C

Add the missing row — Grant D (deadline · amount · eligibility), plus the provenance you’d keep

Saved automatically on this device.

Reveal model answer

Row	Finding
Grant A	FLAG — eligibility overstated: the source says "K-12 districts only," not "K-12 and community colleges." (Deadline and amount are correct.)
Grant B	OK — deadline, amount, and eligibility all match the source.
Grant C	FLAG — deadline is stale: the source says Jan 9, 2026, which has passed; "Open" is wrong. (Amount is correct.)

Grant D (the missing row): deadline Oct 1, 2026 · up to $250K · eligibility community colleges — and keep its source link. The AI’s table simply omitted it; synthesis means catching gaps, not just errors.

Takeaway: two of three rows had a cell that would mislead a real decision — an eligibility you don’t qualify under, and a deadline that already passed — and a fourth opportunity was missing entirely. Checking each cell against its source (and watching for gaps) is what caught them.