Enhancing education for students in the Hood River County School District
Through our 57 scholarship funds, the Education Foundation has awarded more than $2,500,000 in scholarships to more than 1000 students. The Foundation has also raised and distributed more than $500,000 through its Impact Teaching Programs.
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Thank you for your continued support of the arts in our schools. You have let me be creative with the kids and my program is flourishing because of it.
Thank you so much for this scholarship! I look forward to becoming an elementary educator at Western Oregon University. I hope to return to Hood River and give back to my community.
Our family wanted to create a scholarship that recognizes community service and volunteerism, but we didn’t know where to start. Thanks to the Education Foundation, we’re now supporting amazing students every year as they strive to improve the world around them.
Program Highlights
Acidity of Beverages Lab
"Students titrate common beverages to determine the concentration of weak acids and construct titration curves. The lab emphasizes experimental precision and graph interpretation while reinforcing concepts in stoichiometry, solution chemistry, and acid-base reactions. … This is a great addition to our menu of hands on and problem solving/inquiry labs for our Chemistry Lab."
Hood River Valley High School
Columbia Gorge Sternwheeler Field Trip
The Field Trip Grant provided us with the opportunity to extend our learning from the classroom to the Columbia River. Taking a ride on the Columbia Gorge Sternwheeler was an ideal educational adventure for our 8th grade learners and staff. This experience allowed our students the opportunity to connect their learning targets directly to the native history of our region.
Wy'East Middle School
Overview of Speciation and Evolution of Hominids Using Skull Models
"We were able to expand our human evolution teaching by having physical models of hominid skulls that students could touch, measure and compare. So much better than only seeing them online or in a textbook! Thank you HRCEF!"
Hood River Valley High School
