Dogwood Elementary
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Dogwood Elementary ⋆
This summer, we were thrilled to raise over $3,000 to support Dogwood Elementary School in installing document cameras and projectors in several classrooms—technology they have always wanted but never had the extra budget for. On September 3, 2024, we had the privilege of visiting Dogwood Elementary to personally deliver the projectors, and on November 19, we returned to deliver the document cameras. During our visits, we met with the school’s assistant principals, tech leads, and community liaisons, whose enthusiasm and dedication to their students were truly inspiring. We are excited about the positive impact these resources will have on the students' learning experience and look forward to continuing our partnership with Dogwood!
Below is a statement from Mr. Sigle, Dogwood Elementary's community liason (1st from the right) and Mr. Spiros, Dogwood's tech lead (2nd from the left), who we have been corresponding with over the last few months:
Dogwood is a Title 1 elementary school in Reston, VA. At Dogwood, over 95% of our families qualify for the federal government’s free and reduced price lunch program. We have wonderful students, teachers, administrators, and parents/guardians. What we do not always have is enough money to provide all of the items we would like for our student learning environment. One example of that issue would be in the case of document cameras. We have some, but do not have a budget to provide one for every classroom, which we would very much like to do.
When RSF reached out to see how they might support us, we thought this quest for document cameras would be an excellent project for us to work on together. We so appreciate RSF’s support of Dogwood ES!