MILFORD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION

2026 Scholarship Recipients

$56,000 in Scholarships Awarded

Addyson Althammer Regina "Super Woman" Gottschall Scholarship
Elias Grabenbauer Imbus Family Scholarship
Jane Thomas Humphrey Family & Jim Quatman Memorial Scholarship  Emmett Derrig (missing)  Humphrey Family Scholarship
Ferni Llerena Fley Family Scholarship
Brianna Flaig Hess Family Scholarship
Grace Hamm Jean Ackermann Memorial Scholarship
Olivia Zaya Boyd E Smith & Jim Quatman Memorial Scholarship
Brady Eastep Hess Family Scholarship
Polly Carter Hess Family in Honor of Opal Young Scholarship
Gideon List Doug Jauch Memorial Scholarship

Milford Schools Foundation supported The Elementary Schools with MusicPlayOnline

Milford Schools Foundation was able to sponsor Music Play Online for the Milford Elementary Schools. Having access to MusicPlay Online thanks to the grant provided by The Milford Schools Foundation was incredibly helpful this past school year! The elementary music teachers in the district were able to utilize this content in a wide variety of ways. MusicPlay Online provides lesson plans, songs for music class and performances, games for students, and tools to help students with reading music, composing music, practicing instruments, and more! It has proven to be an excellent companion to our music curriculum.

While I don't have specific anecdotes about how it was utilized in the other buildings, I can share a few examples of how we used it at Seipelt Elementary. At Seipelt, we used performance songs from MusicPlay Online for our Veterans Day performance and as part of our second grade musical, Awesome Animals. When our fourth grade students were practicing recorder and note reading skills, we used the game Recorder Baseball where students moved around the room to different bases after correctly performing written music on the screen on their recorders. Students in grades 3-5 loved to play 4-Corners games that tested their listening skills to identify instruments and rhythms. My younger students loved playing MusicPlay Online games to review music concepts such as high/low, loud/soft, and fast/slow opposites.

MusicPlay Online has been growing quite a bit, and they offer more and more content over time. The music teachers and students at all of the Milford Elementary buildings have loved having access to this program, and we plan to apply for another year this fall! If you need anything more, please let me know!