Thanks to our generous donors including: AHS Go Warriors! Opportunity Fund, the Anne Kelly Ofstun Tubby Fund, BEF Building STEAM 4 All Program, First Tech Federal Credit Union, Intel Corp., and the Mike Osborne Memorial Award Fund we have awarded $19,630, funding 15 classroom projects this summer for the upcoming 2021-22 academic year.
Mirrors & Windows: Help Sato Build Inclusive Classroom Libraries!
Sato Elementary School
Students Served: 750
Recipient: Tammy Fry
Award: $2,015
Funding provided through the BEF New Project Match
Money raised allowed for the purchase of diverse books for 32 classrooms, ensuring libraries are as diverse as the children who use them. Books written by #ownvoice authors challenge readers to learn, explore and celebrate one another and are crucial to creating an inclusive classroom community and strong thinking and reading skills.
Nancy Ryles Early Readers
Nancy Ryles Elementary School
Students Served: 200
Recipient: Erin Osborne
Award: $1,500
Funding provided through the Anne Kelly Ofstun Tubby Fund
During Distance Learning book bundles provided our earliest readers with a variety of books needed to build a strong reading foundation and were a big hit with kindergarteners and first graders. Thanks to funds raised through this project, Nancy Ryles can purchase enough books to continue book bundles as permanent function of the library.
Tumwater Middle School Takes the Stage
Tumwater Middle School
Students Served: 300
Recipient: Mikaela Gladstone
Award: $3,500
Funding provided through the BEF New Project Match
Tumwater Middle School Theatre is open to all students who wish to participate, regardless of ability. Funding from this project breaks down the financial barriers that often stand in the way of students wanting to participate in extracurricular activities.
Creating the “Westview Den” – a Wellness Room for the Wildcats
Westview High School
Students Served: 240
Recipients: Mitzy King & Tina Myers
Award: $1,205
Funding provided through the BEF New Project Match
Funds raised through this project helped Westview High School create the ‘Westview Den’, a calming space to help teach students how to self-regulate their emotions in healthy ways and re-engage in their learning, ultimately missing less school due to mental health issues.
Cultivating Curiosity and Creativity
Vose Elementary School
Students Served: 30
Recipient: Flor Medina
Award: $1,500
Funding provided through The Mike Osborne Memorial Award Fund
Dual language learners will grow their curiosity and creativity with art projects and exciting new educational toys to enjoy during recess time and for indoor brain breaks. Additionally, each student will have a low-maintenance plant to care for to alleviate stress and use for math, writing and science.
The Van Gogh Experience
Aloha High School
Students Served: 13
Recipient: Elena Chiovaro
Award: $517
Funding provided through the Go Warriors! AHS Opportunity Fund
Aloha High School AP art students will explore their own minds and inquiries in the process of creating work for their AP portfolio as they visit the Beyond Van Gogh multimedia experience, taking the viewer on a journey through over 300 iconic artworks including instantly-recognizable classics “The Starry Night”, “Sunflowers”, and “Cafe Terrace at Night”, freed from their frames.
4th grade Rocket Readers
Rock Creek Elementary School
Students Served: 91
Recipients: Grace Dilworth, Tricia Peerenboom and Avi Huelskamp
Award: $2,305
Funding provided through the BEF New Project Match
Rock Creek’s 4th grade teachers will help students fall in love with reading thanks to funds raised to purchase books for their beginning level readers that include a cover, design, characters and story that engage a 10-year-old’s mind.
Take the Whitford Times to the Next Level
Whitford Middle School
Students Served: 60
Recipient: Travis Rooke Ley
Award: $1,500
Funding provided through the BEF New Project Match
The Whitford Times, an 8th grade student-driven newspaper, will grow their journalistic knowledge and take their publication to the next level with daily print editions of The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and The Oregonian in class each day. These copies will serve as references, mentor texts, annotations and research.
Monthly Math Magic
Hiteon Elementary School
Students Served: 120
Recipient: Helen Chandler
Award: $1,000
Funding provided through the Building STEAM 4 All Program
Hiteon’s 5th graders will benefit from daily calendar math resources filled with patterns and complex problems. The activities and games give students ongoing practice with key skills and build a solid understanding and love of math.
Help Amplify Our Voices!
Cedar Park Middle School
Students Served: 120
Recipient: Heidi VandenHooff
Award: $100
A Karaoke Machine and multiple microphones will help masked students get excited to speak and share their ideas and ensure educators will be heard loud and clear at Cedar Park Middle School.
The World Needs to Hear YOUR Voice
Sunset High School
Students Served: 210
Recipient: Rebecca Larson
Award: $395
Sunset High School students will read stories with personalized manner that mirrors their own life and see first-hand that “The world needs to hear your voice”. Students will then take their own stories beyond senior literature class and into the bigger world during a unit that focuses on the New York Times “Personal Narrative Writing Contest”.