BEF funds Beaverton’s Choice projects for May 2022

BEF funds Beaverton’s Choice projects for May 2022

Friday, May 27th, 2022

Thanks to our generous donors Beaverton Education Foundation has awarded $112,337, funding 75 classroom projects for the 2021-22 academic year.

The Mighty Molony Builders

Beaver Acres Elementary School
Students Served: 22
Recipient: Amy Molony
Award: $283

Amy Molony’s kindergartners will have even more tools to solve classroom challenges thanks to your generosity. Funds raised through Beaver Acres’ recent Beaverton’s Choice project will secure naturally-engaging items that help students find their voice, build and create. Students will be able to organically integrate construction into play scenarios that advance math skills as well as increase their ability to read body language, tell a story and appreciate others’ talents. 

Growing Interest and Representation with Books!

Nancy Ryles Elementary School
Students Served: 120
Recipients: Victoria Adair, Crystal Gittings and Bridget Peterson
Award: $1,500

Funding provided by the Mike Osborne Memorial Award Endowment Fund

Nancy Ryles fifth graders can expand their book collection with engaging, high-interest texts across reading levels with funds raised from their successful Beaverton’s Choice project and the Mike Osborne Memorial Award Endowment Fund. New books will provide representation of diverse characters and experiences that reflect their own classrooms, while also supporting Fantasy and Realistic Book club units. Book clubs are an opportunity for students to participate in collaborative discussions with their peers, grow their own ideas and create community around stories.

Beaver Acres Authors

Beaver Acres Elementary School
Students Served: 125
Recipients: Evan Churchill, Shannon Hanson, Sandra Hoppenrath, Randi Little and Angela Steindorf
Award: $700

After weeks of hard work, and thanks to our community’s generous support, Beaver Acres’ fifth graders will have their writing published in a book with enough copies for each student, plus extra for the school library. Student authors have been so inspired by the publishing goal they have worked tirelessly to plan, create and polish their stories for a broader audience, bringing greater purpose and authenticity to their work.

Help AHS Multicultural Soccer Program make their GOAL!

Aloha High School
Students Served: 60
Recipient: Enrique Abad Guzman 
Award: $1,350

Funding provided in part by the Aloha High School Booster Club 

Aloha High School students will strengthen social and community values and build self-esteem with funds raised through Beaverton’s Choice to participate in our region’s most successful and significant Multicultural Soccer League. League participation gives students increased opportunities to develop pride in accomplishments earned through hard work.

Middle School Social Studies Comes Alive Through Art

Aloha Huber Park K-8 
Students Served: 65
Recipient: Kaydi Taylor
Award: $1,000

Funding provided by the BEF Building STEAM 4 All Initiative

Social studies students at Aloha Huber Park K-8 can continue creating art projects inspired by their studies, thanks to our generous community. Using funds raised through Kaydi Taylor’s Beaverton’s Choice project, students have the supplies needed to create their projects, often using the classroom’s Cricut Design machine. Classes will finish the year studying Latin American history and the rise of Early Humans, complete with complimentary art that brings the subjects they are studying to life. 

Restoring Our Green Space

Beaverton Academy of Science and Engineering
Students Served: 500
Recipient: Katy Reid
Award: $3,010

Funding provided by the BEF Building STEAM 4 All Initiative

Your support of the BASE community garden gives students an abundance of opportunities to flourish and develop the three powerful traits of our school mascot, the Phoenix – responsibility, persistence and collaboration. Funds raised will replace garden beds, re-open the garden to interested 6-12th grade crews, create a new drip irrigation system and small greenhouse for 6-9th grade Health classes to start seeds in early spring, when learning about nutrition. Another portion will be used by our neighbors in the Community Transition Program. Finally, funds will support a long-term project for AP Environmental Science students in grades 10-12 to research and plan how to redesign the space.

Connecting Outdoors

Jacob Wismer Elementary 
Students Served: 500
Recipient: Merideth Brundidge
Award: $2,075

Funding provided by the BEF Building STEAM 4 All Initiative

Jacob Wismer students can connect with nature, while they learn outside thanks to our generous community. Funds raised from Merideth Brundidge’s recent Beaverton’s Choice project provide the supplies necessary for her fifth graders to design and create outdoor classrooms that can be used by the whole school. 

What will the Falcons Create Next?

Five Oaks Middle School
Students Served: 850
Recipient: Suzanne Peerenboom
Award: $1,086

Funding provided by the BEF Building STEAM 4 All Initiative

Five Oaks seventh grade science students can create life-like 3D models of molecules thanks to our generous community’s support of their Beaverton’s Choice project. Money raised purchased 3D printers and the supplies needed to help students design and build projects showing how atoms bond to create molecules. Additional printers and supplies will help create keychains to recognize student-of-the-month recipients.

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.