Welcome to the Hood River County Education Foundation

Music teaches students skills from motor coordination to memory recall and math, but the cost of renting instruments can be prohibitively expensive for students. HRCEF provides grants to the school district so that all students at Hood River and Wy'East middle schools can learn an instrument, and event participate in the school band.

"Mid Valley students will be able to participate in the hands-on process of growing food from a seed to preparing it to eat. Throughout this process, students will be able to develop critical thinking and collaborative problem-solving skills and will be able to reflect on the importance of environmental stewardship and sustainability. … The hydroponic tower project, even in its early implementation stages, has been the talk of the town. The first day that it was built and set up in the corner of the cafeteria, students pointed and tried to guess what it was (a spaceship? a robot? a plastic tree?). When I first turned on the LED lights as a demo, the whole cafeteria filled with oohs and ahhs. I look forward to seeing what students decide to grow and what they are willing to taste test!"

"Students titrate common beverages to determine the concentration of weak acids and construct titration curves. The lab emphasizes experimental precision and graph interpretation while reinforcing concepts in stoichiometry, solution chemistry, and acid-base reactions. … This is a great addition to our menu of hands on and problem solving/inquiry labs for our Chemistry Lab."