Our Service
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SVY was invited to the RCSD Holiday Party, and volunteered at the event...
Eric and Sam escorted families around, helping with gift distribution and raffling. The gift cards donated on December 13th were part of the raffle, and families received free toys, blankets, cosmetics, bikes, and much more.
SVY Representatives
The Grand Prize Winner
First Place Winners
The Prizes
The audience
For the second year in a row, Silicon Valley Youth donated $5000 worth of Target gift cards to homeless students and their families in the Ravenswood City School District...
SVY presented the gift cards at the December School Board meeting. The gift cards would be raffled out at the upcoming RCSD holiday party, in order to help homeless families through the holidays..
The gifts
Handing out gift cards
SVY with the class
Talking about SVY
Silicon Valley Youth presented a $10,000 check to the Ravenswood City School District board during the November board meeting...
SVY donated $10,000 to the Ravenswood Middle School instrumental music program. The money will go towards repairing instruments and supporting the RMS music teacher. SVY was also commended by the RCSD board for their dedication to service. Many SVY teachers and officers attended the event!
SVY Representatives
The Grand Prize Winner
First Place Winners
The Prizes
The audience
SVY sponsored the Sylvandale Middle School Anti-Bullying Contest, donating over $3500 in prizes, and participated in the judging process...
From an initial pool, 21 submissions were selected to undergo a second round of judging by SVY volunteers, and after much review and deliberation, 10 projects were selected as part of the top 10 and awarded Beats Solo 3 headphones, and a grand prize winner was awarded an iPad Mini. More information and the winning submission can be found on SMS's website.
The gifts
Handing out gift cards
SVY with the class
Talking about SVY
Talking about SVY
Silicon Valley Youth donated $3000+ to sponsor this year's writing contest...
We supplied 10 first place gifts, 10 second place gifts, 10 third place gifts, as well as a grand prize iPad mini. 10 SVY representative attended the awards ceremony, held during a school assembly, and presented the awards to winning students.
SVY Representatives
The Grand Prize Winner
First Place Winners
The Prizes
The audience
Handing out awards
Silicon Valley Youth donated $1000 worth of prizes to award students in the Ravenswood Middle School after-school Algebra 1 class...
Each student received a gift card for completing the course, and an iPad Mini was raffled out to a lucky winner.
The gifts
Handing out gift cards
SVY with the class
Talking about SVY
Silicon Valley Youth donated $5000 worth of Target gift cards to homeless students and their families in the Ravenswood City School District...
We purchased 100 $50 gift cards, in an effort to help homeless families through the holidays. We were made aware by Ms. Morales-Ellis of the growing homeless population in East Palo Alto, and decided put this semester's donation towards these families.
Silicon Valley Youth donated $6000 to sponsor the second annual RCSD AVID Writing Contest...
Through a series of meetings with Mr. Garriss and Ms. Morales-Ellis, SVY made plans with RCSD to sponsor the district-wide writing contest witht the purchase of 18 first place prizes, 18 second place prizes, 18 third place prizes, as well as a grand prize iPad Mini. SVY teachers and officers attended the awards ceremony, held during a school board meeting, and presented the prizes to some 55 winners of the writing contest.
Sorting awards
The prizes
SVY team
Handing out prizes
Silicon Valley Youth donated $900 to sponsor the AVID Writing Contest for RCSD students this semester...
Sixteen middle school students of the "A Moment in Time" AVID Writing Contest were commended by Dr. Hernandez, the superintendent, Board of Trustees, and Silicon Valley Youth, in East Palo Alto.
The team
Presenting awards
Winning Memoirs
Ben and Bryan with the Winners
Silicon Valley Youth donated a $9000 kiln to Ravenswood City School District to help open a ceramics class...
After meeting with Ben and Bryan, Dr. Hernandez-Goff, the superintendent of the Ravenswood City School District, told them that the students and art teachers in the district had been wanting a kiln for over two years. With this kiln, the school could open a ceramics class, which would be a great step to opening up arts education for students at RCSD. Benjamin successfully negotiated the purchase price of the kiln and its accessories from $10,424 down to $8702.45. Silicon Valley Youth delivered a check of $9000 to Ravenswood City School District to purchase the kiln and accessories!
Bryan and Ben recruited two volunteer string teachers to teach at Ravenswood middle schools, allowing RCSD to finally open up a strings program...
Historically, students who attended Menlo-Atherton High School from East Palo Alto and East Menlo Park were never able to join their high school orchestra because they did not have sufficient experience in string instruments. Ravenswood School District had aquired the violins necessary for an after school music program, but they did not have the funds to support a string teacher.
After a long search by Benjamin for organizations willing to help, on July 22, Sono Strings said they might be able to provide teachers.
Immediately after Dr. Hernandez-Goff came back to work, Bryan and Benjamin met her and Ms. Lorena Morales-Ellis again at the district office. Benjamin then set up a meeting between Ravenswood School District and Sono Strings for the very next day. The meeting was successful. Not only did Sono Strings agree to provide two volunteers, but they also agreed to maintain the string instruments for free, hold benefactor concerts, train the students to put on a holiday concert, and provide extra support. Ravenswood City School District will now be able to offer a string class to its students.
The meeting between RCSD and Sono Strings
A violin
