The Schaumburg Boomers Stadium is located at:  1999 South Springinsguth Road, Schaumburg, IL 60193

The Boomers will be donating a portion of the ticket proceeds to the Foundation.  Also, they will be hosting a school supply drive that night to benefit the students of District 54.

When Signing up for this event please use the link:  www.boomerbaseball.com/district54 and type in the password:  T0WN$HIP or call the Boomers at 847.461.3695.

And don’t forget to bring your running shoes.  Everyone is invited to run the bases after the bame.

To register:  15thAnnualGolfRegForm2012

If you’d like to become a sponsor: Sponsor Form Golf 2012

Thanks to a $10,000 Super Grant from the Foundation, students of Hoover Math and Science Academy (HMSA) are learning with Legos.  The grant help fund a Lego Robotics program that connected the elementary school with Schaumburg High School and Motorola.

A number of Motorola engineers have visited HMSA to talk to students about engineering and how this could be a possible future career.  Schaumburg High School staff have worked with their computer programming students to get them ready to be robotics facilitators and to work with our students.  Three HMSA sixth grade students were matched up with one Schaumburg High School Student and they collaborated to build and program a Lego Robot.  In future visits, the Schaumburg High School students will lead the HMSA teams through a “Green City Robotics Challenge.”  The teams will continue to build and program their robots to compete in a maze like challenge where teams accumulate various points based on the challenges they look to take on.  71 sixth graders, 27 Schaumburg High School Students, and 6 Motorola engineers involved so far.

The culminating activity will be a tour of Motorola headquarters in late May, where students will see the engineers in action.  It has been a terrific collaborative experience so far.

HMSA has passed along it thanks to Foundation volunteers, donors and members for their continued support and for making a positive difference on students!

We’d also like to extend a special thank you to our supporters who added to the success of our restaurant benefit:

711 at Schaumburg & Plum Grove
Ace Cleaners
Big Sammy’s Hot Dogs
Caribou Coffee – Schaumburg
Deerfield’s Bakery
Exercise Coach – Schaumburg
Family Chiropractic
Patrick Hyundai
Rosario’s Pizza
Springhill Veternary
Super Cuts – EGV
Three Oaks Car Wash

Recipients were presented award certificates during the January 5th school board meeting. The unprecedented $10,000 Dennis P. Quinn Super Grant was awarded to a team of educators at Hoover Elementary School for their well-written proposal, “Robotics Collaboration with Schaumburg Saxons & Motorola Solutions all working together to push Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics forward”.

Other programs of focus included literacy, nutrition, health, fitness, environmental and home-school connections.  Funding of these grants is made possible by the Foundation’s signature events including Mardi Gras & Casino Night and our annual Golf Outing.

What:  Chicago Express vs. Trenton Titans
When:  Sunday, March 18 at 4:00pm
(doors open at 3:00pm)
Where:  5333 Prarie Stone Parkway
Hoffman Estates, IL 60192

Adults:  $17
Children 2-12:  $15
Hot Dog & Soda:  $6

To order your tickets fill out this form:  ChicagoExpressFlyer12-2012.
Or for more information please call 224-220-1317 or email tinfusino@chicagoexpresshockey.com.

Captain Jack Sparrow greeted guests at the D54 Foundation’s 11th annual Mardi Gras & Casino Night.

Guests enjoyed casino games, dinner and prizes which resulted in net proceeds of over $32,000 to be used for enrichment programs for the School District 54 community that are not covered by tax dollars or school budgets.  Our thanks to all who enabled the success of this event, including the sponsors, donors, guests and volunteers.

As part of the Create Excitement for Public Schools Initiative, we are partnering with Amazon, Groupon (which offers incredible deals and is an easy way to discover the city around you at a great price), Mabel’s Labels (a company that various labels to mark your children’s items) and Identity Direct (a company that offers character items from Nickelodeon, Disney, etc. that are personalized for your child). By doing nothing more than redirecting your online buying, you can help raise money for our schools:

1. Register by clicking on www.ce4psdeals.com. Once you register you will receive a daily email with the Groupon deal of the day and the links to Amazon, Mabel’s Labels and Identity Direct. Mabel’s Labels and Identity Direct are each offering great back to school specials right now – take a look. These companies will also offer premier deals specifically for District 54 schools and periodic specials (for example during Halloween and the winter holidays), so check your email every day.
2. If you already have a Groupon account, please note that it is important that you buy through this link rather than the one that you are currently receiving directly from Groupon. The deals are the same, but the Foundation only benefits if you click through the Foundation email.

The Foundation will receive a portion of the proceeds based on the amount of purchases by our supporters. We can increase this amount tremendously if you forward this email to everyone you know and ask them to register. They will automatically receive the Groupon for their area of the country and the Foundation will receive a percentage of their sales.

Thank you in advance for joining us in this quick and easy way to bring much needed funding to our schools through the Foundation. We promise to share the success of this program by posting periodic updates on our website regarding how much money has been raised and how we will use the funds.