Tahoe Truckee Excellence in Education Foundation

To Go Books -To purchase leveled books for students to take home for daily reading practice.

To purchase hand-held solar calculators that augment math and science curriculum across all grade-levels.

Grant request is to provide spiral bound copies of the Donnie Dirt play to other school sites in the TTUSD. Having professionally bound scripts will provide a longer shelf life. The Donnie Dirt play meets the standards for Visual and Performing Arts for students kindergarten through sixth grade.

This weather station is designed to work in conjunction with the Glenshire Elementary and North Tahoe High School weather stations with Excellence in Education has already funded. We would like to give seed money for this project with a plan to seek additional funds from outside groups such as Alpine Winter Foundation, area TV stations, Sierra Snow Lab, or CalTrans. Weather info from this critical area could provide for an array of sources to enhance road condition info.

Nature Trail

The Donner Trail River restoration project is an on going effort to restore the riparian habitat to its natural state. The soil behind Donner Trail School was contaminated by a diesel spill then ?cleaned.? As a result of this, the soil became sterile and unable to support any native vegetation. Students, kindergarten through fifth grade, will continue the effort to restore native habitat and study the health of the Yuba River?s riparian environment. The curriculum is standards-based.

Winter Survival Skills Equipment for Donner Trail Program. Transceivers, sleds for hauling equipment/rescue demostration, shovels, probes ect. Will benifit all students in the TTUSD who will attend the program.