BEF funds Beaverton’s Choice projects for April 2023
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BEF funds Beaverton’s Choice projects for April 2023
Tuesday, May 30th, 2023
Thanks to our generous donors Beaverton Education Foundation has awarded $109,052, funding 57 classroom projects so far for the 2022-23 academic year.
Help Hiteon’s Garden Grow
Hiteon Elementary School
Students Served: 15 in EGC
Recipients: Stephanie Marshall & Heather Pfeiffer
Award: $3,888
Funding provided in part by the BEF Building STEAM 4 All initiative
Hiteon Elementary students will grow closer as a community and learn hands-on life skills, thanks to our community’s support to restore and add to the school’s garden. Each year students from the Emotional Growth Class (EGC) plant seeds to learn about plant cycles, weather, insects and working together – staff even take time in the summer to weed and water the plants.
Inspire Young artists + engineers with Makerspace materials!
Jacob Wismer Elementary School
Students Served: 80
Recipients: Andrea Varadi, Saumi Bonds & Shawn Vuksich
Award: $1,802
Funding provided in part by the BEF Building STEAM 4 All initiative
Young learners at Jacob Wismer Elementary have consumable Makerspace materials needed to fuel creativity and imagination. Makerspace areas support fine motor development and encourage hands-on problem solving as students interact with the design and engineering process.
Music Moves Us – Create Musicians at Kinnaman!
Kinnaman Elementary School
Students Served: 494
Recipients: Carmen Roberti, Stefanie Janin & Carolynn Langston
Award: $2,000
Funding provided in part by BEF Band Together
Kinnaman Elementary’s young musicians are making sweet music thanks to support for their recent Beaverton’s Choice project. Funds went toward repairing existing instruments and purchasing new ones including: ukuleles, glockenspiels, flexatones, kokorikos, wind chimes, hand drums and so much more!
Code Unplugged!
BASE & ACMA
Students Served: 1,571
Recipient: Dawn Morgan
Award: $5,350
Funding provided in part by the BEF Building STEAM 4 All initiative
Students at ACMA & BASE have increased access to see their code in action, thanks to support for new Sphero Bolt robots. These robots give students diverse ways to engage in science, technology, exploration and inquiry through projects including coding light shows to music and programming robots to navigate a maze.
Communi-tea Cafe
Jacob Wismer Elementary School
Students Served: 593
Recipient: Pamela Jacobsen
Award: $866
Thanks to our community’s support, Jacob Wismer Elementary students will enjoy each other’s company in their school’s new Communi-tea Café. The Cafe offers a space to enrich language skills, grow self-confidence and facilitate imaginative play, while in a calm, creative environment.
Sphero Robot Upgrade!
Bonny Slope Elementary School
Students Served: 685
Recipients: Jeff Lewis & Michele Simantel
Award: $2,653
Funding provided in part by the BEF Building STEAM 4 All initiative
Bonny Slope Elementary students are expanding their ability to think critically, while building coding skills with updated Bolt robots. The upgraded robots function smoothly, have a longer battery life and have a broader application in different areas of learning, helping students to see how their code can directly influence and program a robot to perform a task.
Help our Falcon Science Students Soar
Five Oaks Middle School
Students Served: 130
Recipients: Kristine Rice & Michael Price
Award: $2,080
Funding provided in part by the BEF Building STEAM 4 All initiative
Five Oaks 8th grade science students will become experts on a current species and their ancestor’s adaptations with a trip to the zoo, complete with an interactive and unparalleled contextual platform to share their scientific understandings with their peers and view diverse species with a scientifically critical eye.
