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The Queen Creek Schools Education Foundation
partners with the community to promote excellence in education
and encourages responsible citizenship by financially supporting growth
and learning opportunities for teachers and students within
the Queen Creek School District

2010 Scholarship Applications Available for Download

2010 Scholarship Applications for:

QCSEF General Scholarships
Nathan Martens Memorial Scholarship

Are now available online for download.

Click Here For Information and Applications

Please note the Application Deadline is April 16, 2010 at 3pm.

100% Awareness Campaign

Thank you to these QCUSD Schools and their PTO's that participated in this year's 100% Awareness Campaign. The goal of this campaign is to increase awareness about the Foundation at our schools, and with our parents, students and teachers. Ultimately this awareness encourages more teachers to apply for grants, more students to apply for scholarships and allows us to generate more funds for scholarships and grants. For a first-year effort, the response was phenomenal!

Frances Brandon Pickett Elementary

Jack Barnes Elementary

Desert Mountain Elementary

Queen Creek Middle School

Newell Barney Middle School

Queen Creek High School

Further, the funds from the above schools and PTO's allowed us to receive a matching gift of $1,000 from Mid First Bank (David Melgoza, Banking Center Manager). Thank you Mid First!

The total funds raised from this campaign:

$2254.12

2009 Golf Outing - Success!

We would like to say THANK YOU to this year's Golf Outing Supporters:

SPONSORS:

AAA Insurance

A & P Construction

Borgata at San Tan

Cholla Pavement

Dixon Golf

Desert Wells Family Medicine (Dr. Daryn McClure)

Elsieo and Deb Ruiz

Interstate Batteries

MidFirst Bank

Parsons

Rummel Consturuction

San Tan Mountains Pride Association

Saving Grace Lutheran Church

Sundt Construction

RAFFLE DONATIONS RECEIVED FROM:

AAA Insurance

Fieldhouse Sports Bar

Dixon Golf

Gecko Grill

Joe's Golf Shop

Las Colinas

Last Chance Salon

Melody Brown with Tastefully Simple

Native new Yorker

New York Pizza Dept

Russ' True Value

Safeway

Serenity Tan and Massage

Staples

Texas Roadhouse

Unlce Bear's

Van's Golf Shop

Student Scholarship Winners - 2009

The Queen Creek Schools Education Foundation has awarded four scholarships this year totaling $9,000 at Senior Day.

A $1,500 scholarship was awarded to Kylie Johnson. She graduated with a 4.46 GPA was ranked 4^th in the class. She plans on attending Barrett, the honors College at Arizona State University.

A $1,500 scholarship was awarded to Lexis Hanson who finished with a 4.15 GPA ranked 13 out of 360 and plans on furthering her education by attending Arizona State University.

The $3,000 QCSEF scholarship was awarded to Megan Traichal. Megan finished first in her class with a GPA of 4.65 and plans on attending University of Arizona in the Honors College as a Linguuistics major.

The 4^th annual Nathan Martens scholarship goes to Jacob Goddard. This scholarship was established to honor Nathan Martens, who was a graduate of Queen Creek high school, played sports while in school and was a US Navy Corpsman who gave his life for his country in Iraq in 2005. Jacob was on the wrestling team for four years and was team captain, four years on the football team and served as captain. He also served on student council for four years and was the Student Body President and also volunteered his time as a youth wrestling coach for 5 years. Jacob plans on furthering his education and wrestling career by attending Mesa State College in Grand Junction, Colorado.

Fundraisers

We have sponsored a variety of fundraisers to raise funds for the foundation.

Click Here to visit our News & Events Page and see some recent fundraising events!

Teacher Grant Winners - Spring 2009

Each of the following teachers was awarded $300 for the Spring Semester.

Kathy Olmstead, from Queen Creek Middle School, will help her students by buying books that will allow them to work on their own autobiography. The students will be able to compile information for their autobiography, put the information on the computer and then print out their own autobiography book.

Tom Bidlack: Kathy Olmstead, 8^th grade Language-Arts Teacher;

Principal Julie Niven and Tom Lindsey, Director of Curriculum.

Linda Okonowski, from Queen Creek Elementary school will use her grant money for “Book Cooks.” Students will be introduced to different literature. They will do graphing, rhyming, punctuation, songs, and learning to follow directions and work together with the purpose of doing a recipe to cook with a theme that goes with a book and a lesson.

Mrs. Okonowski said; “It will give the students a variety of ways to learn the curriculum. They also will learn different objectives in each lesson. Each lesson will have reading, writing, math, thinking, following directions, social studies, science, and learning to work together, which is an important life skill.”

Kimberly Rutherford, also from Queen Creek Elementary, received her grant money for her students to learn “the life cycle of the chick.” During this project,...