The Elk Grove Regional Scholarship Foundation will hold their annual Spotlight Elk Grove fundraising event from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Thursday, September 11 at the S.E.S. Hall (10428 East Stockton Blvd., Elk Grove).   

Spotlight Elk Grove is the premier fundraising event for the Elk Grove Community Foundation, a non-profit that provides scholarships for EGUSD seniors.

Spotlight Elk Grove blends a "Taste of...." type event with a service industry tradeshow.  More than 60 vendors will be featured at the event.  Guests receive a hors d'oeuvres plate, a bag for promotional items and a program for the evening with a map of the business locations in the event.  This year's theme is "Opening Night Premiere."

For more information about Spotlight Elk Grove, click here.  To purchase tickets for this event, click here.  Be sure to stop by EGUSD's table! 

Elk Grove Unified was at the City of Elk Grove's annual Multicultural Festival in Elk Grove Park. EGUSD distributed healthy snacks and participated in fun preschool games with children while at the festival. The festival featured a variety of ethnic foods, music, an art show, entertainment, fashion shows and activities for kids.

EGUSD also had representation at Feria de Educacion, an education fair designed to help Latino families navigate the California education system from K-12 through community college and the university level. The fair was held at California State University, Sacramento. 

United States astronauts aboard the International Space Station will be beamed live into Elliott Ranch Elementary School on the morning of Wednesday, August 27, 2014, for a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) downlink. Elliott Ranch Elementary is one of two elementary schools in the nation to have been selected for the NASA downlink thus far this year.

Twelve students will have the opportunity to pose questions to the astronauts while the entire school will watch them demonstrate science, technology, engineering and mathematics concepts in ways that are impossible on Earth.

This exciting event is just one of several components that the school has implemented with the support of their parent community to increase their focus on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) this year. The school has been building up to this event with a 3,2,1 Liftoff approach:

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The astronauts will be using a 3D printer for the first time in microgravity.  This summer the Elliott Ranch community successfully raised over $2,500 to purchase the first 3D printer at an Elk Grove Unified elementary school.  The printer will give the students the opportunity to learn from the very technology being used in the space station.  

Students got a sneak peek into life in space today when former astronaut Stephen Robinson spoke to students about his experiences, inspiring young people towards future careers in STEM!

Liftoff!

Students, staff and dignitaries will gather in the multipurpose room this Wednesday for the live feed from the International Space Station.

Stay tuned for more exciting STEM news this year from Elliott Ranch Elementary!

Jones is being honored for his work in EGUSD and his own non-profit organization, Courageous Connection, which addresses foster youth needs. For the past seven years, Jones has been instrumental in creating and facilitating the foster youth advisory classes at several EGUSD high schools. These classes are designed to provide information and support to students in foster care. He began his focus on foster youth as a teacher at Laguna Creek High School, recruiting staff and administration to facilitate an advisory class for foster youth to support their academic needs. Jones has also enlisted the help of the community to begin Courageous Connection and support other foster youth needs, such as prom dresses and tickets, as well as bus stickers. Click here for more information about Courageous Connection.

Florin High School opened in fall 1989. Although Elk Grove Unified's third comprehensive high school is not located within the town of Florin, the school board chose the name in honor of the area's history. The arrangement of the school's buildings was patterned after the University of Virginia where its first principal and chief planner, Bill Huyett, attended. The partnership of east and west, as represented in the architecture, was a good symbol for the school's diverse population and its students of many ethnic origins and languages. Click here to view Florin High School's website.

The pre-game celebration kicks off at 5:30 p.m. with faculty, staff and class recognition, as well as free cupcakes from Cupcake Craving. Event attendees will be able to take pictures with Florin's panther mascots - "Flo" and "Rin," stop by a face painting station, purchase Florin High School gear and snap a few pictures at the selfie station.

Admission into the game is free for Florin High School students with ASB cards and EGUSD employees. Please direct all questions to Tiffany Vaughn at tvaughn@egusd.net or (916) 689-8600, x6077.