Thanks to our generous donors Beaverton Education Foundation has awarded $97,988, funding 65 classroom projects for the 2021-22 academic year.
Warriors Go Beyond the Building
Aloha High School
Students Served: 1,700
Recipient: Dennis Joule
Award: $2,500
Funding provided by the Go Warriors! Aloha High School Opportunity Funds
Aloha High School students will have a welcoming spot, suitable for classroom and social activities, thanks to our community’s generous support of their Beaverton’s Choice project. The space will benefit the student and staff experience far into the future and will also play a pivotal role in student leadership, as a group of dedicated students spearhead the project.
Mustangs are Meant to Move
Chehalem Elementary School
Students Served: 400
Recipients: Lisa Lane, Anna Montemayor and Angee Silliman
Award: $1,030
Funding provided by the BEF PE + Play Initiative
Chehalem Elementary School students will have more opportunities to get hearts pumping and bodies moving with the funding of their recent recess-focused Beaverton’s Choice project. Our community’s generosity means students will have valuable brain breaks and the physical activity they have been craving.
Enhancing Recess Through Structured Activities
Beaver Acres Elementary School
Students Served: 700
Recipient: Andrew Ratzke
Award: $305
Funding provided by the BEF PE + Play Initiative
Beaver Acres Elementary students can build stronger social relationships and increase their successes thanks to our generous community. Funds raised through Beaver Acres’s Beaverton’s Choice project will help students re-learn social skills they were not able to practice while in distance learning using structured activities that students can engage in safely and confidently.
Bilingual Books for Newcomers
Aloha Huber Park K-8 School
Students Served: 32 students and parents
Recipient: Dr. Molly Anderson
Award: $670
Funding provided by the Mike Osborne Memorial Award Fund
Families in the Aloha-Huber Park K-8 Newcomers Program are strengthening English language skills with bilingual books, available in their native languages of Arabic, Pashto and Spanish + English. Texts were made possible thanks to community support through Beaverton’s Choice and the Mike Osborne Memorial Award Fund.
Tools for Technology
Vose Elementary School
Students Served: 30
Recipient: Abbey Morariu
Award: $506
All of Abbey Morariu’s 3rd grade students at Vose Elementary are thrilled they can easily listen to relevant and enriching educational videos and books thanks to their upgraded headphones, made possible through Beaverton’s Choice. Thanks to community support, all of Abbey’s students now have access to good quality technology materials.
Aloha Band Symphony Experience
Aloha High School
Students Served: 30
Recipient: Aliyah Jackson
Award: $1,710
Funding provided by the Go Warriors! Aloha High School Opportunity Funds
Aloha High School band students will attend an Oregon Symphony performance of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in preparation for their final concert of the year in June titled “A Night at the Movies”. This exciting and educational experience will help students shine in their final concert and was made possible through our generous community and the Go Warriors! Aloha High School Opportunity Funds.
Lights, Camera, Wildcats!
Westview High School
Students Served: 30
Recipient: Brandi Duke
Award: $1,020
Thanks to our community’s generosity, Brandi Duke’s Westview High School yearbook class has updated tools to help students learn valuable and relevant lessons. High-quality and professional tools increase student creativity, innovation, leadership and life skills and also direct focus on inclusiveness and diversity.
Bringing Baile Folklórico dance to Raleigh Hills
Raleigh Hills K-8 School
Students Served: 12
Recipient: Jennifer Alvarez
Award: $2,420
Students at Raleigh Hills K-8 have the opportunity to overcome increased barriers to student connection postpandemic thanks to our community’s support for a new after school club, Baile Folklórico. The cultural program focuses on the history and traditions of each dance, the meaning of the music and the significance of the clothing. It will also provide ethnically marginalized populations who often face misconceptions and lack of ethnic representation in education, an opportunity to feel empowered and included within our school community.
Science Solar Cars
Tumwater Middle School
Students Served: 414
Recipients: Susan Duncan and Brian Phelps
Award: $950
Funding provided by the BEF Building STEAM 4 All Initiative
Tumwater Middle School students and staff will end this year on a high note, completing a hands-on engineering project where they will build their very own solar cars! Thanks to our generous community, students will learn about the fascinating transfer of solar energy to kinetic/mechanical energy. They will sketch their ideas and reiterate their design many times to reach optimal speed. They will also experiment with different sized wheels, axels and gears in order to get their car to travel straight, fast and far.
Preparing for the Future: ISB’s Computer Science Club
International School of Beaverton
Students Served: 40
Recipients: Limor Geisler
Award: $1,430
Funding provided by the BEF Building STEAM 4 All Initiative
The International School of Beaverton (ISB) Computer Science Club has access to relevant programming resources, LeetCode + Replit for Education, and the funds necessary to create a chapter of the Computer Science Honor Society thanks to our generous community. Membership in the honor society allows members to graduate with national honor society recognition and be identified by colleges and other institutions for computer science proficiency.
Thanks to your generous contributions, the dollars raised are enabling enrichment programs in Beaverton schools that otherwise would not be possible. For current programs, and to begin your application, please visit Beaverton’s Choice, Beaverton Education Foundation’s online resource that brings community and classrooms together.