Posts by Paula Pierce

Windsor Education Foundation event to raise funds and fans for Windsor’s Public Schools Windsor Education Foundation, a grant-making organization for Windsor’s public school educators, invites the public to Decadent Date Night on February 9 at 7:30PM at Vito’s by the Water in Windsor. The event includes wine or beer, indulgent desserts, and liqueur tastings, plus…

Clover Street School’s Ms. Michalic reports that Math Bags are part of the effort to increase Math scores in her classroom: “Throughout the implementation of the Math Bags in school and at home, I noticed that the Math Bags positively impacted my student’s STAR Math scores and increased their SBAC Math Assessment from previous years.”…

Windsor High School is building up the Electrathon program.  The 2017 grant from WEF funded a second vehicle with a composite body.  This enables students the opportunity to work with lightweight materials like carbon fiber, nomex honeycomb, and Kevlar. Electrathon America is a low-cost Electric Vehicle design competition.  The organization was formed in the late…

WEF is excited to support teachers throughout the Windsor Public School District by funding the Breakout EDU Experience.  This is a riddle-based set of lessons where students must work together in teams or as an entire classroom to solve clues and puzzles that guide them to find the correct combination for the locks on a…

Team Paragon Robotics now has a Digital Positioning Readout mounted on machining.  The FIRST Robotics season begins each January, and students are being trained during the fall in preparation for the upcoming build season.  Trained students will use this technology for hands-on learning of precision manufacturing in the process of building their robot for competition. …

Thirty-eight (38) 12th Grade students from the AP U.S Government & Politics class have taken the lead to introduce the CT Kid Governor program to all students in 5th Grade throughout Windsor Public Schools.  The AP students presented an overview of the program as well as an overview of the three branches of government.  The…

We have added three accomplished community members to our Board of Directors.

Find yourself in the photo gallery and see how much we raised. Wine Bottle Bingo was an exciting night at Northwest Park! * 20 wine-theme prizes were won by our guests, plus everyone had a chance to bid on unique auction packages or score a $100 bottle of wine in our wine pull. * 100+…

WEF is excited to support teachers throughout the Windsor Public School District by funding the Breakout EDU Experience.  This is a riddle-based set of lessons where students must work together in teams or as an entire classroom to solve clues and puzzles that guide them to find the correct combination for the locks on a…

Windsor Education Foundation is excited to start a new tradition in fundraising. Mark your calendars for Wine Bottle Bingo on September 8, 2017 at 5:30 PM at Northwest Park in Windsor. What is Wine Bottle Bingo? Guests will come early to mingle, sip and nibble, then get in on five games of bingo with wine-themed…