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BECU (Boeing Employees Credit Union) teams with the College Success Foundation to award a minimum of 64 scholarships each year for high school seniors or those undergraduates at a 2/4 year or technical college or university.
This year, we're proud to announce a new partnership with the College Success Foundation, a nonprofit that makes higher education opportunities more accessible to students who are low-income, disenfranchised, BIPOC and the first in their families to attend college.
Award Details
Each awarded scholarship is $2,500 and renewable for two years ($5,000 total). With the help of our business partners, member donations, and fundraising activities, we award a minimum of 64 scholarships each year.
2023 Application Dates
Online applications are available as of Dec. 1, 2022, and close at 11:59 pm PST on Jan. 31, 2023.
Eligibility
To be eligible for this award, you must:
Be a member of BECU and primary accountholder at the time of the application submission. (The account must be separate from a parent or guardian's account).
Be a graduating high school senior or undergraduate student currently enrolled in a two-year, four-year or technical college or university (students of graduate programs are not eligible).
Have a cumulative GPA of 2.5 or greater.
BECU also teams with the the Washington State Opportunity Scholarship program for students pursuing STEM occupations.
From the SDOT Blog about a new bike/scooter program from the City of Seattle:
Bike or scoot your way to transit and earn rewards along the way, with new pilot program!
Summary:
We’ve launched a new pilot program to encourage people to bike and scoot their way to transit, and we want you to try it out!
Ride any bike share or scooter share service to select transit hubs and save up to $8 on your trip.
You can earn discounted trips, free mobile transit tickets, and Transit GO Rewards points to use for future trips. Start riding and earning today!
The pilot program runs through March 31, 2023, or while funding remains available.
Our partners include King County Metro, Sound Transit, Bytemark, Ford Smart Mobility, and a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy.
Let's get baking!
The King Arthur Bake for Good program has either a live instructor come OR a Zoom instructor for a 50-minute lesson on baking bread, pizza dough or rolls. It is free but it seems like it's filling up fast.
We send flour and supplies for the baking kits about two weeks before the date of the demonstration. You assemble the baking kits and students take them home the day of the demonstration. We encourage students to bake their bread over the weekend. Start to finish, this recipe takes about 3.5 hours, which can be hard to fit in after school.
Building community through baking is one of our core values at King Arthur Baking Company. The BFG bread recipe makes two loaves or a few dozen rolls. Your students will share one loaf or half of their rolls with a family member, neighbor, or friend as an act of kindness.
From the Burke Museum of Natural History, they have "Burke Boxes" to borrow for all kinds of lessons on Native cultures, exploration of the West, dinosaurs, rocks and minerals, bats, evolution, and many more. Your child's teacher can reserve a box for a lesson in your classroom. They look like the lessons can be tailored to cover multiple grades but they also have a Backpack program for younger learners.
It is not a free program but they do have scholarships/cost assistance. It seems like it would be easier and cheaper than a field trip to the Burke.
The speaker list is up for the Board meeting tomorrow; not as packed as I thought with just four people on the waitlist. The majority of the speakers are speaking on high school boundaries (with several wanting to talk about Ballard High). There are only three of us speaking about the Green Dot resolution asking the City to not grant the zoning departures that Green Dot has requested. It's me, long-time watchdog, Chris Jackins, and the head of the Washington State Charter Schools Association, Patrick D'Amelio. (I knew Mr. D'Amelio when he headed the Alliance for Education and Big Brothers and Big Sisters; he's a stand-up guy.)
Why You Should Care Mr. Crabill has found quite the acolyte in Director Chandra Hampson. In the course of discussions over SOFG, she says his name over and over, "A.J .says we...." Now that's not too surprising given the direction the district is heading and that it is Mr. Crabill's work with the Council of Great City Schools is how we got here. But it appears that Mr. Crabill is working very closely with Hampson and we know she wields some amount of power over the majority of the Board. Mr. Crabill is going to continue to work with the Board as SOFG is instituted in SPS. In fact, his role may become more public as it did at one SPS Board meeting in the spring where he was on the phone during the meeting and suggested the Board stop the meeting to "self-reflect." I also noticed that in a district in South Carolina, when things weren't going to plan, he blamed the Board for not following SOFG to the letter. Look for that to happen here if Board members w
This may only be a partial list of reasons; please, add anything else in the comments. The deadline to file to run for the Board is May 19th. Entire Board Majority NOT vetting the Superintendent in any way, shape or form. Even the Seattle Times thought that was wrong. It was just absolute hubris and it was wrong. For the second time in just over a year , board members voted to negotiate a superintendent contract during a special meeting with no opportunity for public comment. This time, they showed an even deeper disregard for their responsibilities as public servants: Aborting a national search for a new superintendent and denying Interim Superintendent Brent Jones a chance to show students, parents and taxpayers that, indeed, he is the best person for the job. Government bodies can’t fast-forward through transparent processes just because they think they know the right answer. One other odd thing about the hiring of Brent Jones - most permanent SPS superintendent contracts ar
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