These organizations supported STEM last Spring if you want to consider thank-you notes or supporting their local business.
ACTS OF KINDNESS |
ACTS OF SERVICE |
ACTS OF DONATION |
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| Name | Connection to STEM | Who Benefited? | What was done? |
| Kelly Murphy | Current Parent | We decided to foster a puppy. We did this to help a desperate family in need of a new home for their dog due to unfortunate circumstances, and to have 1 less dog being sent to a shelter, all of which are overwhelmed at the moment. | Our family owns a dog boarding business. We decided to foster a puppy in need of a new home. We will be working on his training and socialization, and then he will be given to the right family when he’s ready, free of charge. We’ve named him Kacey, in honor of Kendrick Castillo. |
| Pari Gaikwad | Current Student | Our Community | Pari is a 2nd-grade student of STEM School Highlands Ranch. She is hosting a talk show for non-profit organizations and fundraising events from all over the USA. She is providing media coverage for these events. Also she is interviewing guests to help spread their message! This is a great way for serving the community and helping each other. She is cleaning up the community where she lives to keep it clean. She has been writing letters to senior citizens to make them smile. She is learning about being kind and will continue doing that !! |
| Dave Snow | Current Staff | STEM | The STEM Math Team gathered to build community and enjoy time with one another. |
| Nicole Bostel | Current Staff | Bees and Butterflies | Planted a bee and butterfly garden to promote life and growth |
| Name | Connection to STEM | Who Benefitted? | Hours of Service | What Was Done? |
| Beth Boen | Current Parent | Homeless Shelters | 5 | We packaged homeless care packages to be delivered to various homeless shelters. |
| Nicole Bostel | Current Staff | STEM | 2 | I brought Daisy, the therapy dog into the school to work with some of our students who were having difficult days. Helping them to work through their worries, calm down and work on making better choices. |
| STEM Second Grade Team (Christine Logue, Tami Brook, Madison Slater, Erica Wilkerson) | Current Staff | Backpack Society | 5 | This year the 2nd-grade students will be making celebration and/or birthday cake kits. These kits will include everything needed to make a birthday or celebration cake. We will be donating them to the Backpack Society organization. The organization works with students and families to provide weekend meal boxes and weekly grocery pick-ups. They are a local organization. The classes made 96 kits. |
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ACTS OF DONATION |
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| Name | Connection to STEM | Organization donated to | Amount of Donation |
| Jenn Marlow | Current Parent | South Metro Fire Station and DCSO Police Substation | Jake and I donated breakfast burritos |
| Ronalea Alleman | Current Parent | Caley Ridge Assisted Livint | Nine STEM families made 123 homemade Mother’s Day and kindness cards for all the residents and staff at Caley Ridge Assisted Living facility in Centennial delivered on Mother’s Day. The contributing families were Patel, Dickerson, Reyna, Fu, Kodavanti, Sill, Smith and the Alleman families. |
| Name | Connection to STEM | Who Benefitted? | Hours of Service | What Was Done? |
| Name | Connection to STEM | Organization donated to | Amount of Donation |
| Anonymous | Current Parent | Denver Rescue Mission | $180 (in Jewish numerology, the number 18 stands for “chai” or life.) |
| Gretchen Feldkamp | Current Student | Go Team Therapy Dogs | $25 |
| Gretchen Feldkamp | Current Student | STEM PTO | $25 |
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ACTS OF DONATION |
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| Name | Connection to STEM | Who Benefitted? | What Was Done? |
| Karyn Weiffenbach | Current Parents | The Castillos | Coordinated with Seven Stones Cemetery for the Castillos to receive messages from our community |
| Janet Arnold | Current Parent | Children’s Hospital | Mailed off 365 hearts of gratitude to the workers at Children’s |
| Nicole Smith, Rudy Lukez, Roy Martinez, Thomas Wendling, Jeff Berg, Trevor Kilpatrick, Ramesh Thatavarthi | Board of Directors | STEM Community | Created a video to share with the STEM Community. |
| Douglas County Libraries | Community Partner | STEM Community | Created a video to share with the STEM Community |
| Douglas County Sheriff’s Office & South Metro Fire | Community Partner | STEM Seniors | Gathered together to create video messages for STEM Seniors. |
| Littleton Adventist Hospital | Community Partner | STEM Community | LAH staff shared photos of solidarity with signs that said #STEMStrong |
| Graham Thompson | Current Student | DCSO | I made a coffee cake and a thank you card and took it to the sheriff substation close to STEM |
| Susan Montgomery | Current Parent | STEM Community | We participated in STEM’s car procession today and my husband created a time lapse of it: https://youtu.be/omRFLxYoQ3A |
| Beth Boen | Current Parent | Two families – our neighbor who has cancer and another person who has a disability. | For our neighbor with cancer, we assisted in helping repair a fallen down fence. For the person we know with a disability whose caregiver is sick, we made hot meals, sides and desserts that they can easily heat up with no preparation. We delivered enough prepared food for for a week. |
| Anonymous | Current Parent | Elderly | We wrote letters to some elderly members of our family who are in a senior living home not allowing visitors at this time. |
| Anonymous | Current Parent | Teachers | We also planted flowers for our teachers and sent them homemade gifts for Teacher Appreciation Week |
| Anonymous | Current Parent | Neighbors | We distributed bundles of face masks to several of our neighbors most of whom fall in the senior category and higher risk; over 30 masks distributed. |
| Haylee Fustich | Current Student | South Platte | Our family painted stones. While leaving the stones outside on trails today we picked up garbage. |
| Christine Logue | Current Staff | Peakview Assisted Living and Memory Care | We painted 37 5×7 paintings for their residents to spread joy to those living there that cannot be visited by their family members at this time. |
| Hannah Reese | Current Staff | Various Individuals | I wrote thank you notes to the national and local experts and mental health professionals who have provided guidance to STEM over the past year. |
| Liz Dougan | Current Staff | STEM Families | Connected with impacted students/families. |
| Anna Magle-Haberek | Current Staff | An Individual | Gave away sourdough starter and bread baking lessons |
| Stephanie Hooley | Current Parent | DCSO | We are having Parry’s Pizza delivered to the DCSO HR Substation to say thanks. |
| Mike Pritchard | Current Staff | Former Staff | Called a former employee |
| Maria Moreno | Current Staff | Neighbors | help with their garden |
| Maura Ridder | Current Staff | Essential workers, friends, family, neighbors | Planting trees, posting signs thanking essential workers, creating meaningful collages and letters mailed to friends and family, sending unexpected gifts to people in need, lots of paying it forward at drive throughs (over a dozen.) |
| Coleen Sullivan | Current Parent & Staff | Our Garbage Man Alberto! | Jack and his brother love our garbage man, Alberto. Jack wanted to thank him for all of his hard work. |
| Coleen Sullivan | Current Parent & Staff | Amazon, UPS and FedEx delivery workers | We are receiving A LOT of deliveries lately and Jack thought it would be a good idea to leave thank you messages for delivery workers to see. |
| Hannah Nikolaev | Current Student | Nursing Homes, Hospitals & Neighbors | I am sewing masks that I can disinfect and donate to places that need them to prolong the life of N95 masks. We are in the process of hanging the masks on a tree in our neighborhood (sterilized + sealed in bags) allowing anyone who needs them to grab them. |
| Kelly Murphy | Current Parent | Adopt a Senior | Our family adopted a 2020 Graduate from Missouri. We will be sending him several gifts to brighten his day over the next few weeks. We specially chose a student who is mildly on the Autism spectrum. |
| Kelly Murphy | Current Parent | Our Neighbors | My children dropped off plates of doughnuts to our neighbors to brighten their day. |
| Asher DeCrescenzo | Current Student | My Family | Took part in the Run for the Fallen |
| Stephanie Mendrala | Current Staff | Neighbors | Delivered cards to my neighbors |
| Coleen Sullivan | Current Staff | Neighbors | Jack painted rocks with uplifting pictures and messages and left a rock on the doorstep of each house on our cul de sac. |
| Abbi Kaplan | Current Staff | Neighbors | Donate homemade cookies to neighborhood. |
| Tobi Anderson | Current Parent | HS Senior from KIPP Denver Collegiate HS | ‘Adopt’ a senior graduation gift |
| Tobi Anderson | Current Parent | STEM Community | Participate in car procession |
| Alexa Nichols | Current Staff | A friend | Took birthday cookies to a friend to help her celebrate her 13th in quarantine. |
| Name | Connection to STEM | Who Benefitted? | Hours of Service | What Was Done? |
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Karyn Weiffenbach
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Current Parent | STEM Community | 4 | Coordinated a car procession for the community to participate in on the one year mark |
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Nicole Bostel
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Current Staff | Village XChange Aurora | 4 | Delivered food to those in need |
| Michelle Gasser | Current Staff and Parent | Village XChange Aurora | 2 | Delivered food to those in need. |
| Tammy Horlacher | Current Parent | Heart and Hope center | .5 | We conducted a food drive in our neighborhood. |
| Jenny Johnson | Current Staff | Faith Lutheran Church (Castle Rock) | 12 | I helped purchase and pack groceries for a Drive Up Food Bank for 50+ families |
| Kalissa Braga | Current Parent | Douglas County Sheriff’s Office | 15 | Sewed over 40 face masks |
| Alexa Nichols | Current Staff | Help & Hope Center Food Bank | 1 | Donated dry/shelf sustainable food items for families in need. |
| Name | Connection to STEM | Organization donated to | Amount of Donation |
| Nicole Bostel | Current Staff | I5City Church | $120 |
| Liz Dougan | Current Staff | Cat Care Society | $100 |
| Liz Dougan | Current Staff | The Gathering Place | $100 |
| Hannah Reese | Current Staff | Food Bank of the Rockies | $60 |
| Mike Pritchard | Current Staff | Beyond Home | $200 |
| Chris Smith | Current Staff | Feeding America | $100 |
| Karyn Weiffenbach | Current Parent | Food Bank of the Rockies (at the request of DCSO) | $1860 (Various Donators) |
| Karyn Weiffenbach | Current Parent | Make4Covid | My son used his 3D printer to print and donate 60 items of PPE. Both visor bands and ear buckles. |
| Nicole Bostel | Current Staff | Children’s Hospital Blood Bank | Donated Blood |
| Nicole Bostel | Current Staff | STEM Community | I made candles to donate to the STEM community to show that they are a light in our community. Left them at the school for anyone to take. |
