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What We Fund
Your Contributions Are Helping to Fund These Activities in the 2018-2019 School Year
Biology Club
Biology Club
Biology Club is a group of students dedicated to pursuing greater knowledge in the field of biology. The group participates in competitions (USABO, iGem), engages in research and introduces members to future careers in biology and medicine through a speaker series and tours of local labs and medical facilities.
PTSA funds will go toward paying for the USA Biology Olympiad and the National Chemistry Olympiad, as well as reimbursing officers who order materials for labs and dissections. They will also go toward lab visits by club members.
Carbon-Free Commute
Carbon-Free Commute
MVHS Carbon-Free Commute is a PTSA group helping and encouraging
everyone in the MVHS community get to school in a fun, healthy and
environmentally-friendly way. The program distributes free bike lights
and provides hot chocolate for all carbon-free commuters on a cold
winter day. It organizes around Earth Day and/or Bike to Work Day. It
collaborates with the MVHS Environmental Club and other groups on
various activities. It maintains a website with information about
transportation options.
PTSA funds help pay for the bike lights, hot chocolate and informational material.
Visual Art Department
Visual Art Department
Drawing 1, Drawing 2, Publication Design, Visual Art Classes
PTSA funds help cover the cost of transportation for the annual museum field trips for five art classes.
Freestyle Academy
Freestyle Academy
Freestyle Academy of Communication Arts and Technology is an on-campus
alternative discipline challenging students to be creative and
imaginative with communicating their ideas. The students produce art for
larger project-based units through multimedia visual and audio
formats.
PTSA funds help pay for food and drink for exhibitions in February and May and at graduation.
Future Business Leaders of America Club
Future Business Leaders of America Club
Future Business Leaders of America is a national student business
organization where students attend competitions all around the nation,
competing in business-related competitive events. The main goal is to
give students a chance to explore the business world in a collaborative
and competitive environment.
PTSA funds help pay for the volunteer
adviser's conference, travel and hotel fees. Funds also allow the
organization to waive the conference, travel and hotel fees for students
who otherwise could not afford to attend competitions.
Life Skills Program/SPED
Life Skills Program/SPED
Life skills instruction for Special Education students combines
academic, daily living, occupational, and interpersonal skills to teach
students how to live and work in the community.
PTSA funds help pay for a yearly overnight
trip to Santa Cruz to promote independence, social skills and
generalizing life skills/functional academics.
Mountain View ASB
Mountain View ASB
The Mountain View Associated Student Body (ASB) helps lift school spirit
through six student pep rallies throughout the school year.
PTSA funds help pay for an ice cream social after each rally for the class that has won the most games and showed the most spirit.
MVHS Library
MVHS Library
Author presentations are popular, attracting more than 100 students and staff.
PTSA funds pay for the purchase of multiple
copies of books for raffle and for the library shelves and to provide
appreciation gestures to the authors.
MVHS Science Olympiad Club
MVHS Science Olympiad Club
The MVHS Science Olympiad team educates and inspires students in all
STEM disciplines through hands-on activities. The club includes team
members who compete at the annual Science Olympiad competition and
provides learning opportunities to explore science further.
PTSA funds help pay for tournament fees, training and building materials, and publication costs.
Robotics Team
Robotics Team
The goal of robotics is to give the students the opportunity to learn
real engineering and work with professional engineers. The program is
not unlike a small startup, and the robots build perform complex tasks.
The team has 50 to 70 students and is continuing to grow.
PTSA funds help supplement an MVLA grant the
robotics team and engineering program has to purchase a milling machine.
The additional funds will help the group buy tooling and a conversion
kit to allow the students to run the mill with computer-aided design
files.
Science Classes
Science Classes
Calculators for MVHS Science classes.
PTSA funds help the science instructor
purchase a set of 40 scientific calculators for the class, as well as a
hanging organizer for storing them. The calculators enable the teacher
help level the playing field so all students can use the same high-level
calculators.
Spartan Pause
Spartan Pause
The PTSA created Spartans Pause wellness program in the spring of 2016
to encourage all students to pause to take care of themselves in the
week before finals. It has been expanded to include the week before
winter finals.
During Spartans Pause, students can get before-school snacks and
participate in such lunchtime activities in the Quad as coloring,
origami, LEGO building, yoga, bubble play, meditation, interacting with
therapy dogs and barnyard animals, twirling hula hoops, getting
massages,
PTSA funds pay for the before-school food and
lunchtime activities. And the PTSA provides volunteers for the whole
wellness program to the benefit all students and staff.
Staff Appreciation
Staff Appreciation
The PTSA's Staff Appreciation committee puts on several events each year
to pamper our staff, including a November Soup and Salad, December
Pumpkin Bread, May Breakfast and Coffee, and June Luncheon.
PTSA funds pay for food and supplies, and the PTSA provides volunteers to help organize, set up and clean up.
Yearbook
Yearbook
The Publication Design Class produces the annual MVHS Olympiad yearbook.
PTSA funds are allowing the Publication Design class to purchase two new DSLR cameras, memory cards and cases.