These are profiles of some of our grant winners from this year. The Ed. Fund again wishes them a hearty congratulations for formulating projects to enhance the education of West County students. For a complete list of grant winners, please click here.
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| Grant Title: DeJean ESCAPE Club School: LoVonya DeJean Middle School DeJean Middle School's ESCAPE Club encourages its members to be good citizens around campus and in their communities. As a reward for their hard work, they take trips to a variety of exciting and fun locations all over Northern California.  DeJean Middle School students enjoying the view at Monterey Bay Aquarium. |
| Grant Title: First Grade Futbol School: Mira Vista Elementary Coach Interrante, a parent at Mira Vista and former semi-professional Italian footballer, imparts his knowledge of the sport to three classes of excited first-graders 2-3 times a week. While focusing on the fundamentals, he is also preparing them for a schoolwide soccer tournament in May, which will be supported by local soccer players.  First-graders ready to practice ball-handling drills with Coach Interrante. |
| Grant Title: Get Your Newsletter! School: Ellerhorst Elementary Ellerhorst Elementary 6th-grade students wrote a grant to apply for $500 to start a school newsletter called the Junior Rattler Times. Everyone in Mr. G's classroom has a role to play in this newsletter and the product looks amazing. Visit the Junior Rattler Times' website for more details and give these students feedback and encouragement for their hard work.  Editor displaying press passes students use to get the job done. These sixth graders are pros! |
| Grant Titles: Learn and Grow/The Sunshine Classroom School: LoVonya DeJean Middle School Yulia Solovieva, a teacher at DeJean Middle School, is overseeing a project to revitalize the school gardens. She's using the gardens to teach English to her ELD students and charging them with the task of developing a portion of the school library into a resource students can use to learn more about gardening. The whole school is involved in this project as the woodworking class build birdhouses and will next work on making picnic tables and benches for all visitors to enjoy.  Students take pride in their school by working hard to develop the garden. Here is a section of the garden Ms. Solovieva is using to teach her students about water conservation. |
| Grant Title: Harding InvestiGATE School: Harding Elementary Harding Elementary parents volunteer their time to provide enrichment lessons focused on science and engineering, math and literacy. The Ed. Fund provided funds for the science and engineering and literacy cycles. Each cycle culiminates in a schoolwide fair designed to help GATE students teach their classmates about what they've learned.  Harding Elementary students preparing dry ice to capture CO2 in a balloon. |
| Grant Title: Murphy Blockheads School: Murphy Elementary The Murphy Blockheads meet on a weekly basis to learn more about science, technology, math and engineering through working with LEGO pieces. The team competes regularly in in the FIRST LEGO League Competition.  Students demonstrate their robot on an official FIRST Lego League table. |
| Grant Title: Riverside Running Club School: Riverside Elementary Riverside Elementary started a Running Club to promote healthy lifestyles on and off campus. Students participate in weekly running events with their peers. The Ed. Fund visited on the day of the Turkey Trot, held the week of Thanksgiving.  Students receive charms for hitting running milestones. In honor of Thanksgiving, students were given turkey charms for their participation in the Turkey Trot. |
Although The Ed. Fund's Mini-Grant and School-Wide Grant program is completed for this school year, we are continually updating our site with other grant opportunities so please check our site regularly for our most current listing.
Please visit our grants page this summer for the 2011-2012 application for mini- and schoolwide grants.