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❄️ Happy Holidays from PCEF! ❄️ | The PCEF team at this year's Red Apple Gala (l to r): Kerry Bedell, Cynthia Mellin, Ingrid Whitley, Jen Billow, Callie Platt, Valeria Sandoval and Kara Cody | |
As the year winds down and the season of giving draws near, we are filled with joy and renewed purpose. Your support through Build the Foundation, the Red Apple Gala, and Live PC Give PC ensures we can meet our mission to fund educator-powered programs inspiring all Park City students to reach their academic and lifelong potential.
Thank you for being such an essential part of our community.
Wishing you and yours a warm, joyful, and love-filled holiday season. See you in 2026!
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| Hands-on play, sequencing, and problem solving translate to computational thinking. | | |
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“Honestly, when I first learned I’d be teaching four-year-olds without computers or devices, I was a bit skeptical. But after diving into their learning standards, I realized the skills they need align perfectly with core concepts of computer science.” -Mike Burton, Trailside Computer Science Teacher and Technology Instructional Technology Coach
Park City preschoolers are learning computer science without computers, and having fun as they are introduced to foundational skills in the classroom. Pre-K students build durable communication and collaboration skills, along with computational thinking, through screen-free activities such as pattern recognition, sequencing, and hands-on problem solving.
PCEF supports Real World Learning throughout our schools, connecting classroom instruction with real world experiences, even for the youngest learners.
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The Stop Motion app is a creative tool to help students capture and tell a story frame by frame. | |
"Our students love being directors and set designers for their own stories and seeing them come to life." -Summer Marshall, EHMS Computer Science Integration Coach
Ecker Hill's new MakerSpace, funded by a PCEF Classroom Grant, has become a student favorite. The open, lab-style room is filled with tools, creative supplies, and technology – all things that make hands-on learning accessible and fun.
We recently visited the space and observed a DLI French class creating a short story through stop motion animation. Students utilized skills from across their everyday learning – language arts, arts, technology, math, and world language – to bring their stories to life.
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| The Running with Ed Committee celebrating the Best Fundraiser Award alongside Running with Ed sponsor, Chesley Electric. | | PCHS Student Panel (from left): Danna Reyes, Isabel Reyna, Lilly Stensen, Ashley Tettelbach, Rylan Betkler, Evalina White, Alec Lebwohl, Kat Jones, | | It was an amazing, energetic evening hearing from the PCHS Student Panel and Superintendent Lyndsay Huntsman at the Scholar Circle event at KITA at Pendry Park City. Students shared how PCEF-supported programs – including PCCAPS, photography, theater, drone/aviation, orchestra, band, debate, Bright Futures, Latinos in Action and others – are shaping their education and future goals. Thank you to our panel and everyone who joined us! |
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We're so happy to see one of our recent student panelists from the Scholar Circle event, Isabel Reyna (Bright Futures/Dream Big/Latinos in Action) recognized as a PCHS Sterling Scholar for World Language. (Isabel is pictured above, 2nd from left.)
Congratulations to Isabel and all of the PCHS students named as 2026 Sterling Scholar Finalists!
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😊 Good News in Park City Schools, Thanks to PCEF Support ❤️ |
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