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MCEE in the news
MCEE celebrates women's History MOnthOn March 26, MCEE in partnership with the FongSong Life Foundation celebrated Women's History Month by donating 250 copies of the Yvonne Lin's book "The A-Z of Wonder Women". Yvonne was able to join us at our four Title 1 schools, Weller, Randall, Rose, and Burnett as she talked about what's it like to be an award winning product designer and consultant and author. She read her book to the 3rd grade students and the FongSong foundation was able to donate 250 copies of her book to each student. MCEE along with the schools want to thank Yvonne for her time, and the FongSong foundation for their generosity.
6th Annual STEAM showcase a huge successOn Saturday, March 9, we held our 6th Annual STEAM showcase. We had 240+ students participating, representing every one of the schools in MUSD, and representation in every grade level, from Kindergarten to 12th grade. It was held at the San Jose City College, Milpitas Extension, and we had over 600+ people join us to see the hard work that our students produced. There over 100 projects that included robotics, programming, experiments, games illustrating STEAM concepts, and art integrated/inspired technology. We also had distinguished guests that included Assemblyman Kansen Chu, Mayor Rich Tran, MUSD Board President Chris Norwood, and MUSD Board VP Hon Lien, Superintendent Cheryl Jordan, Assistant Superintendent Norma Rodriguez, Assistant Superintendent Jonathan Brunson, and Former Sunnyvale Mayor Otto Lee.
We also want to give a BIG THANKS to the STEAM showcase committee: Karen Muska, Brenda Lebeck, Kimi Schmidt, Chin Song, Yolie Garcia, Robert Jung. Also, we want to thank Michael Mooney and his staff at the San Jose City College, Milpitas Extension for all their support in making this event happen. MCEE REaches its $100K Milestone!
The Milpitas Community Educational Endowment has reached its initial goal for raising $100,000 for the endowment this month. This positions the organization to start distributing roughly 5% ($5,000) of its value annually back to the Milpitas Unified School District. The distribution will roughly at the start of each school year in September. The goal was reached roughly 6 months ahead of its own schedule and It also allows MCEE to start planning its programs and goals for the next 5 years, through June 2024. We are super proud and thankful for all our supporters from the last 9+ years! If you want to help get us a head start on our next funding goal, please make a donation online, using the button below. THANK YOU!
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This year, MCEE will host donation drives for three school organizations: MHS Theatre, Rancho International Trip, and the MHS Xtreme Robotics Club. We feel these three organizations are trying to provide extraordinary experiences to our Milpitas students and we would like to help. We will provide a receipt that may be used for tax purposes. As always, please confer with your tax professional on the applicability of your donations. Click on each of their logos to read their stories and donate.
Looking for volunteersAs we grow, we are in need of dedicated volunteers with some specific skills:
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Upcoming events
MCEE is on now on twitter!
We finally have joined Twitter! Be sure to follow us @Milpitas_Ed for reminders and new announcements! Join us for our MAGIC showcase Presentation on May 30, 2019 @ SJCC-Milpitas
Join us on Thursday, May 30 @ 7pm at SJCC-Milpitas in Lecture 1 to celebrate and see what our girls in the More Active Girls In Computing (MAGIC) program have been up to. This program pairs up middle school and HS students with a woman professional in industry to mentor and guide the girls as they explore the world of STEAM. Please RSVP at: www.tinyurl.com/mceemagic
mcee sponsors robotika summer camp
MCEE is excited to sponsor the Robotika Summer Camp in collaboration with MHS Xtreme Robotics Club.
Robotika Summer Camp is an exciting hands-on experience for elementary and middle schoolers to learn and try robotics and STEM, hosted by Milpitas Xtreme Robotics! In it, students will be learning C++, building their own small robots, and competing with these robots at the end of the 6 weeks. There will also be projects for students to try so that they can apply their new knowledge in fun yet challenging ways. Robotika Summer Camp runs on every Friday (8 AM - noon) from June 21 to July 26, and snacks/lunches will be served! For more information, contact us at info@mceefoundation.org or Chloe Wang MCEE sponors summer sat prep courseMCEE continues its tradition and partnership with Excel Test by sponsoring a summer SAT Prep course at MHS. The course starts June 24 and runs through July 22, 2019. For more information or details, you can check the MHS PTSA webpage (trojanparent.weebly.com). To enroll, check out here. If you have further questions, please contact us at info@mceefoundation.org.
mcee launches its summer resources Page
Our Summer Opportunities Fair, which incorporates our High School Job Fair is set for Saturday, April 13, 2019. This year, we will have exhibitors from the South Bay, highlighting various summer opportunities for kids: enrichment opportunities, summer camps, volunteer opportunities, summer jobs and internships, and many more ideas for your kids in the summer. For the latest information you can check out the Summer Opportunities Fair webpage.
For exhibitors and employers, online applications can be completed below or downloaded and emailed back to us at: info@mceefoundation.org NEw indirect wayS to raise funds for MCEE
Use goodsearch to donate a penny per search to the Milpitas Community Educational Endowment.
Need to get some online shopping done? Check out our newest indirect fundraiser: FlipGive... Just make a purchase from the hundreds of stores and a percentage is donated back to MCEE. It is easy and you can help us raise funds as you do your shopping.
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