Past Awardees
Previous Grants funded by the Milford Schools Foundation
Milford Schools Foundation is proud to have sponsored the Outdoor Club
"Thank you Milford Schools Foundation Board of Directors for approving our grant request two years ago.
Our request was used to purchase climbing equipment for the Outdoor Club. We have been holding open climbing sessions every other Monday since the Fall. We have had as many as 8 students at one time (actually a little crazy with the small space and only having six routes) and are recently seeing students reach the top on routes that they could not accomplish in the Fall. Over the course of our sessions we have had over 30 students contacts."
Joe Cambron
Physical Education Teacher
Milford Outdoor Club sponsor
Milford Q sponsor
Milford Schools Foundation is a proud to have been a sponsor of Where Everybody Belongs
WEB is a middle school orientation and transition program that welcomes 6th/7th graders and makes them feel comfortable throughout the first year of their middle school experience.
Goal
To provide schools with a structure in which students make real connections with each other thus increasing school safety and reducing incidence of bullying. Through this program, students learn that people at school care about them and their success.
Creating Role Models
Built on the belief that students can help students succeed, the program trains mentors from the 8th grade class to be WEB Leaders. As positive role models, WEB Leaders are mentors and student leaders who guide the 6th/7th graders to discover what it takes to be successful during the transition to middle school and help facilitate 6th/7th grade success.
Better Schools for All
WEB is the middle school transition program that will promote positive mental health, increase student achievement, enhance character development efforts and create an anti-bullying environment at our school.
In the fall of October 2022 Milford Schools Foundation awarded money to support the MJHS Goggle Up! class with buses for field trips.
Since that time, approximately 12 classes including more than 300 students learned how to use telemetry equipment and had the opportunity to take the bus during the school day to participate in turtle tracking and data collection. Some of them also analyzed the data in a class project.
During that time, the interest was great enough to also offer at least 6 turtle tracking opportunities for family and friends in the evenings. A small group of students who were especially interested in the field research also volunteered for two extra activities to engage the community. On Saturday, Sept 30 Goggle Up! students showed our telemetry project to the guests of Valleyview, the nature preserve where our turtles are located. A couple of weeks later, they also shared their knowledge of Eastern box turtles with teachers from all over Ohio at the EPA’s Federation of Soil and Water Conservation Districts Educator Workshop.
The project that these funds supported was unique in that it taught science skills and created authentic opportunities for students to practice communication skills while gaining confidence and pride in their abilities. Thank you to the Milford Schools Foundation.
In 2023, because of your kind support we were able to help send six teams to the VEX Robotics World Championship.
64 students on 12 Milford Robotics competitive VEX teams had a very successful year in 2022-23. Milford Schools Foundation granted $6,000 to send 5 teams to the VEX Robotics World Championship in Dallas, TX. 3 awards were won at the VEX Robotics State Championship and one 8th grade team, 98992A, finished the year ranked #2 in the state of Ohio, #47 in the USA and #86 in the world! 93 middle school students attended Milford's VEX Robotics Summer Camp in 2022.
