Category: Accomplishments

Robotics

Students Power Up Robots for Competition

The Alameda Robotics Center is holding its inaugural Alameda Robotics Center tournament on Saturday, May 7, 2016 from 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM in the Wood Middle School Makerspace, located at 420 Grand St.

About 50 students from Wood Middle, Lum Elementary, Ruby Bridges Elementary, Nea, and Encinal Jr. High School will be participating in the competition in which teams compete to see whose robots can complete a series of tasks for the most points.  

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From “Bummed Out” to Sports Star

spotlight-bb-feb16Daniel transferred to his new middle school in the beginning of 6th grade. After a few weeks, the AEF Middle School Sports coach, who is also a P.E. teacher at the school, noticed he was hanging by himself and had little enthusiasm. Daniel told the coach he was having a hard time making friends and was feeling  “bummed out”. The coach suggested sports as a way for him to get involved.

The coach realized he had no experience with any sports,

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Wood Volleyball Team Raises Money for Breast Cancer Awareness

Our Middle School Sports program provides students with a safe, healthy after-school activity that supports sportsmanship, teamwork, goal setting, self-confidence and school spirit.  But you never know what else can happen when you put a group of determined middle schoolers together.

The Wood Middle School volleyball players decided they wanted to support breast cancer awareness.  Throughout the month of October the girls donned pink hair bows and the boys pink socks and laces.

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Supporting Student Success: September 2015

Supporting Student Success: September 2015

Dear Friend,

Welcome Back!! The beginning of the academic year is always exciting. Walking your child to kindergarten on the first day of school or wishing your senior good luck on his or her last AUSD year is exciting and memorable.

We at the Alameda Education Foundation wish the best for all our Alameda students. Our mission to support student success will continue throughout the school year. There are AEF programs that can assist students from kindergarten through 12th grade.

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Bill’s Word:  2013-2014 Accomplishments

Bill’s Word: 2013-2014 Accomplishments

Dear Friend,

Thank you for making impact on thousands of student lives during the last school year through your support of the Alameda Education Foundation (AEF).

You certainly helped Ron.* Ron is an English Language Learner at one of our Alameda high schools. Ron would be the first in his family to attend college. Although he is very bright and capable, he and his mother (who does not speak English) were unaware of the value of a college degree.

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Helping Students Find Their Sine

Funds from the Equipped 4 Success school supply drive are used to purchase graphing calculators for Alameda public high schools.

Geometry can be challenging enough in itself. But imagine having to make calculations using a giant grid of trigonometry calculations and then using these calculations to multiply or divide to solve for a missing side length. Whew! It is surely as tedious as it sounds and it puts the emphasis on not making a math mistake rather than learning necessary geometry standards.

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Powering Up Students for Learning!

At the Sept. 11, 2012 Board of Education meeting, Alameda Education Foundation (AEF) president Bill Sonneman presented grants to Alameda High School and Encinal High School to support technology needs in the schools’ academic intervention programs.

The funds were generated by Power Up 4 Learning, a collaboration between AEF and Alameda Municipal Power (AMP), that enables AMP customers to designate an amount to be added to their monthly power bill. AMP collects these donations and provides them to AEF to support technology needs at Alameda public schools.

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Bill’s Word:  Thank you for Supporting Student Success!

Bill’s Word: Thank you for Supporting Student Success!

Dear Friend,

I’m writing to share with you the impact the Alameda Education Foundation has made on student success thanks to your support.  Personally, I have witnessed teachers crying when receiving a $500 Adopt A Classroom with students cheering their teachers and watched the most exciting middle school basketball game ever when Lincoln and Wood competed for the A girls championship at the Boys & Girls Club. But the impact goes beyond that. 

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