SUPERIOR, CO: The sixth-grade team at Eldorado K-8, led by art teachers Sue Grubich and Jayme Martin, applied for and was awarded a grant through the Alliance Project.  This project is funded by the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District and gives up to $20,000, over two school years to work with SCFD participating organizations. 

“All of us at Eldorado K-8 look forward to the expanded opportunities this grant will bring to our students,” said Eldorado K-8 Principal Robyn Hamasaki. “Thank you to the teachers who helped make this happen.”

In order to help connect Colorado Content Standards to everyday life, the grant funds opportunities for students to visit community organizations as well as to work with professionals who are brought into the classroom.

Following are just a few of the activities on the list so far that the fifth and sixth graders at Eldorado K-8 will engage in as a result of the Alliance Grant:

• Central City Opera will present En Mis Palabras in a bilingual assembly.
• The Denver Center for Performing Arts will present an Interactive Periodic Table of Elements show.
• Students will visit The Mizel Museum to see Masks in World Culture and an artist from the museum will give a demonstration of Glass Fusion at the school.
• The Colorado Mountain Club will teach students about Map and Compass Skills, the Physics of Rock Climbing, and Deforestation.
• Students will visit the Colorado Railroad Museum to learn about moon phases and seasons.

Other organizations that the students will interact with include The Colorado Ballet, The Wildlife Experience and The Arvada Center.

The Alliance Project grant is awarded to one school in Boulder County, and only seven schools state-wide. Eldorado K-8 is proud to have received this grant representing Boulder County for the 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 school years.

About the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District
Since 1989, Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD) has distributed funds from a 1/10 of 1% sales and use tax to cultural facilities throughout the seven-county Denver, Colorado metropolitan area. The funds support cultural facilities whose primary purpose is to enlighten and entertain the public through the production, presentation, exhibition, advancement and preservation of art, music, theatre, dance, zoology, botany, natural history and cultural history.  http://scfd.org/