Tahoe Truckee Excellence in Education Foundation

To purchase supplemental Hampton Brown Avenues English Language Development materials that help provide a systematic and sequential curricular program to carefully educate and assess academic progress.

Purchase of LCP Video Projector (used in computer lab for class presentations, 2 digital cameras (to be used by all teachers on a check out basis) and 5 Alpha Smarts and Connectors. (to increase current number. Currently site has 60 Alpha Smarts for 350 students.)

This teacher has spearheaded an effort to not only landscape an extensive area around the portable classrooms but to also incorporate science in form of gardening, cooperative learning, mathmatics and language arts activities.

Forth graders at Sierra Mountain Middle School which provides an opportunity for participation in plays, games, cooking, gold panning, trading goods, and making leather goods.

Funding for four Power Station exercise equipment platforms as the existing lifting equipment has gotten to the point of being non-repairable. Students in all the physical education classes and athletic teams totaling 400-600 students yearly use this equipment.

Techowrks program for grades 4 and 5. Program addresses Technology Awareness, Keyboarding, Word Processeng, Internet Telecommunications, Intro to Programming Data Bases and Electronic Presentations.