Your Next Text Message May Fund School Projects

Here's an announcement from Dawn Whalen, PTSA Communications Chair:

Teachers and parents give students the building blocks they need to learn and grow, but sometimes they can use a little outside help. As school budgets nationwide continue to shrink, The Clorox Company’s Power A Bright Future grant program steps in to help fund new or ongoing programs that allow children to play, create and explore.

After a competitive national nomination period, Livermore’s two comprehensive high schools have been selected as nominees. Grants are strictly based on votes. The program with the highest votes gets the grand-prize grant of $50,000. The top vote-getters in the three categories (Play, Create, and Explore) will be awarded a $25,000 grant each. The Clorox judging panel will select one lucky school to win the $25,000 judge’s choice grant.

It’s time for our community to show its support by casting votes now through Dec. 9. Each school is in a separate category which allows the community to support both schools daily with your votes.

Vote for each school using both methods every day between now and Dec. 9:

1) Text your vote for each school daily:

• Granada — Create category: text clorox2766 to 44144
• Livermore — Explore category: text clorox5374 to 44144

2) Vote online for each school daily:

• Granada: http://www.powerabrightfuture.com/gallery/detail/?nid=1461
• Livermore: http://www.powerabrightfuture.com/gallery/detail/?nid=937

View the above links for details on each grant. Here is a summary:

Help Granada High complete the transformation of a classroom into a Broadcast Studio. Students will improve reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills while they develop news stories, interview staff, students and community members, and make commercials about clubs and electives. By broadcasting our news reports online, the whole community will get an exclusive peak into our fantastic school.

As of Nov. 4, the highest number of votes in this category is 10,522.

Help Livermore High’s Green Engineering Academy survive! The grant would be used to construct an outdoor solar and wind lab, where students design, install, and maintain renewable energy systems; creation of new courses and labs for engineering physics, architecture, and civil engineering; and hire tutors for our after school program for at risk students. All of these measures would enhance student learning and help keep our program going strong.

As of Nov. 4, the highest number of votes in this category is 19,586.