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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.)
Update 2: an absolutely fabulous interactive map made by parent Beth Day (@thebethocracy on Twitter - she covers Board meetings and is fun to read). end of update Update 1: Mea culpa, I did indeed get Decatur and Thornton Creek mixed up. Thanks to all for the correction. end of update I suspect some who read this post will be irate. Why do this? Because the district seems very hellbent on this effort with no oversight skid marks from the Board. To clearly state - I do not believe that closing 20 schools is a good idea. I think they hit on 20 because they thought it might bring in the most savings. But the jury is still out on the savings because the district has not shown its work nor its data. I suspect closing schools and THEN leasing/renting them is the big plan but that means the district really has to keep the buildings up. But this district, with its happy talk about "well-resourced schools" is NOT acknowledging the pain and yes, gr...
From the ever-amusing Washington Policy Center : Vouchers are Pell Grants for students under 18. Vouchers are no different than Pell Grants or GI benefits, except the money goes to the families of students younger than age 18. Except they are. Pell Grants were created to help needy students and that's not really the goal of the voucher program. The Pell grant website does have a couple of great studies on why low-income students drop out before finishing their higher ed and what makes a difference.
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