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Redwood Ceramics Program

As a discipline within Redwood's esteemed visual arts program, Ceramics fosters students’ abilities to create, experience, analyze and reorganize, thereby encouraging intuitive and emotional as well as verbal responses. Ceramics is a functional, sculptural and historical medium emphasizing concepts of three dimensional design where instruction includes the use of the potter’s wheel, clay hand construction techniques, surface decoration techniques and kiln firing.

In support of this increasingly popular course offering, this past Fall, the Foundation approved a grant for three new kilns which are actively being used nearly every day by the 160 Ceramics students! And this spring a second grant was approved for new electric potter's wheels to replace the broken and outdated wheels. Thanks to your generous contributions, this new equipment will benefit the growing number of Ceramics students now and for years to come and is yet another example of what makes Redwood a special place for our students, staff and the larger community!

20+ New Grants Funded!

Thanks to the generous support from our donors, the Foundation was able to SAY YES to more than 20 Spring grant requests from teachers, staff and students including:

· Furniture for 16 classrooms

· Interns for the Wellness Center

· New water filling stations

· Digital information screens for the hallways

· A school-wide anti-racism presentation

· Programmatic support for drama, music and athletics

· and many more! Read our full list of grants funded on our website

We are grateful to our donors for

making these grants possible!

Your gift to the Foundation is truly benefiting EVERY STUDENT at Redwood!

2021-22 Donor List

Haven’t donated yet? It’s never too late!

Scholarships Awarded!

A GIANT appreciation to our Redwood High School Foundation Scholarship Committee co-chairs, Bryn Argov and Rob Leonard, and the entire Scholarship Committee for their time and commitment through the recent scholarship application review and evaluation process where they awarded our 2022 scholarships to 28 seniors who demonstrated remarkable character and determination as well as significant academic achievement. The recipients will be celebrated during an awards ceremony on May 25th.

The 2022 scholarship funds, totaling $135,000, were made possible through the generous support of parents, alumni, faculty and friends through contributions made to the Redwood High School Foundation as well as three family-directed scholarships.

We congratulate this remarkable group of students and wish them the best of luck in their college careers!

We are thrilled that we are able to gather in person again and are looking forward to hosting these upcoming events:

May 16: Sequoians Senior Awards Banquet (by invitation)
May 19: Titan Party (by invitation)
May 23: Redwood Senior Athletics Banquet (by invitation, hosted by Benchwarmers)
May 25: Scholarship Awards Event (by invitation)
May 27: Redwood Alumni Avenue of the Giants Speaker Day and Banquet. Get your tickets here!

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