They Did It!
Congratulations to Summit High and Snowy Peaks graduates! A special congratulations goes to our scholarship awardees. To learn more about these amazing students, click here.
Yeti graduation 2023
Snowy Peaks Yetis
Jovan Mays Helps Students Find their Inner Poet
Jovan Mays is the former Poet Laureate of Aurora, Colorado, a National Poetry Slam Champion, a TED Speaker and Director of Your Writing Counts; a youth poetry program throughout the Denver Metro that engages just over 200,000 students annually. He engages every 8th grader in their initial poetry lesson for the poetry unit of study that culminates in a rousing Poetry Slam competition in May.
The Author and Poet Visits bring well known, published authors to Summit County to engage students in reading and writing. These visits provide students real live access to authors of books for their age group and reading level.
Congratulations to winner of the Poetry Slam this year, Austin Johnson!

The success of the Author Visits is in part due to the collaboration between teachers and the Education Foundation of the Summit.

A HUGE thank you goes to our sponsor Alpine Bank and for the in-kind support (since 2016!) from Ramada Inn Frisco.
Poetry Slam 2023
Poetry Slam Competitors, Summit Middle School
*Attention Educators!*
We're accepting funding requests for your innovative ideas! The Eileen Finkel Innovative Teacher Awards support teachers' creativity to support students. Apply now (or wait till the last minute - applications due October 1).
Special Offer - Order Before June 27

Paul Finkel has generously offered to match a donation to the Education Foundation of the Summit when you pre-order The Art Thief by his son, Michael Finkel, through Next Page. At the cover price of $28, you'll receive a personally signed copy and EFS will receive a $30 donation from Paul.

When you make an order please specify Education Foundation of the Summit in the Comments and any dedication you would like author Michael Finkel to write.
 
Michael's previous book, The Stranger in the Woods, was a New York Times bestseller. Michael will be making a presentation and book signing at Colorado Mountain College, Breckenridge on Monday, July 17th.
 
Thank you to Paul for this generous matching offer. Paul is a long-time Summit County resident and supporter of the Education Foundation of the Summit.
From the Random House description of The Art Thief:

“One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the world’s most prolific art thief, Stéphane Breitwieser.

In this spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, the best-selling author of The Stranger in the Woods brings us into Breitwieser’s strange world—unlike most thieves, he never stole for money, keeping all his treasures in a single room where he could admire them.

For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master thief Stéphane Breitwieser. Carrying out more than two hundred heists over nearly eight years—in museums and cathedrals all over Europe—Breitwieser, along with his girlfriend who worked as his lookout, stole more than three hundred objects, until it all fell apart in spectacular fashion.”