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Save Outdoor Ed

Outdoor Education supports student success

For program to survive, community help needed

As you may know, funding for Outdoor Education was eliminated beginning with the 2010-2011 school year due to the district's need to cut more than $22 million from its budget. Many students, parents and staff do not want to lose this valuable portion of our K-12 curriculum. The most likely way to preserve Outdoor Education is to generate private funding which would be run through the school district to operate the program serving Five Star District students.

While we’ve developed a plan for how donated funds will be used, we recognize that using this approach to fund Outdoor Education also creates a certain amount of uncertainty in what the final program will look like depending on the amount of funding raised. For the 2010-2011 school year, our goal is to raise enough money to provide a program for all sixth-grade students that will bring them outdoors to experience the environment first-hand and provide a level of challenge that will require commitment and teamwork to accomplish the activities. For more details, please see our funding plan.

Help with a vote

Our fundraising efforts have been focused on identifying potential sources of funding – immediate funding and long-term funding. Our best shot at a potentially large portion of funding is the Pepsi Refresh Project. Our proposal was accepted and you can help by casting an online vote throughout the month of September for the Outdoor Education project and the $250,000 award.

There are three ways to vote each day:

  1. Click here to vote online.
  2. Text 101867 to 73774
  3. Vote from Facebook:
    • Login to your Facebook account in one window and open the following page http://www.refresheverything.com/adams12outdooreducation in another window
    • Scroll to the bottom right of the Pepsi Refresh page and find "Vote from Facebook". Then click on "Install the Application".
    • Now on your Facebook page click the "Allow this Application" button
    • You'll find the voting application now on the left side of your Facebook homepage
    • Click on the Pepsi Refresh voting button. From now on this will be available without all the previous steps.
    • Type in Revive Outdoor Education for the program name
    • VOTE and confirm

***VOTE ONCE EVERYDAY using all three means to vote. For voting online, you can use all of your email accounts to VOTE DAILY. It also means you can have all of your family, friends and neighbors take part in VOTING DAILY for Outdoor Education!***

Help with a donation

For ongoing funding to carry Outdoor Education and its benefits for students into the future, we’re planning for private, community donations. You can help us begin establishing a fund that will carry us into the future. To make a donation today – large or small – simply click the button below.