Healthy Start Grant After receiving a planning grant, Alvarado Elementary
received a $400,000 operational grant! This grant will allow
us to provide on-site health and dental care as well as
expand out afterschool program.
Road Ahead
Grant
The Road Ahead Grant was awarded by the National Foundation
for the Improvement of Education and funded by Microsoft
corporation. This $30,000 grant provides funding for the
creation of a Science and Technology Discovery Center and an
afterschool Computer Academy. We are in the first year of
the two year grant and have made great strides towards
realizing our objectives.
1510 Technology Grant Collaborating with Cabello Elementary, Pioneer
Elementary, and Alvarado Middle school, we received a
$100,000 technology grant to put computers into the
classroom and use technology to assist our Multilingual
community.
Hewlett Packard In 1994, with the support of our parents, Hewlett
Packard awarded us a grant of 4 HP scanners and 4 HP Laser
Printers. These peripherals have been integrated into our
Road Ahead Grant program. The Hewlett Packard proposal was
the initiating grant of our Science and Technology Discovery
Center.
Lawerence Hall of Science Through a generous grant from Lawerence Hall of Science
in Berkely, Alvarado was able to kick off the grand opening
of our Science and Technology Discovery Center with a Bubble
Festival. This two day event integrated science learning
with lots of FUN!