Chevron’s 2015 Fuel Your School Program benefits students

Local community generated $600,000 to help fund 736 eligible classroom projects for teachers and students through collaboration with Chevron and DonorsChoose.org

Chevron U.S.A. Inc. announced that its 2015 Fuel Your School program generated $600,000 to help fund 736 classroom projects, including 306 focused on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), to help connect real world experiences to classroom learning for 83,104 students at 226 King County public schools.

The following schools in the Shoreline School District received funding / benefited from Fuel Your School King County:

• Echo Lake Elementary School 
• Lake Forest Park Elementary School 
• Parkwood Elementary School 
• Ridgecrest Elementary School
• Syre Elementary School 
• Einstein Middle School
• Kellogg Middle School 
• Shorecrest High School
• Shorewood High School 

Through the Fuel Your School program, Chevron contributed $1 when consumers purchased eight or more gallons of fuel at participating Chevron and Texaco stations in King County during the month of October, generating $600,000 to help fund eligible classroom projects at local public schools.

The Fuel Your School program is part of Chevron’s total commitment to education. Chevron has invested nearly $250 million since 2013, supporting programs that focus on STEM education initiatives designed to arm students and teachers with the critical skills and resources needed to succeed in jobs of the future.

Founded in 2000, DonorsChoose.org makes it easy for anyone to help a classroom in need. At this nonprofit website, teachers at half of all the public schools in America have created project requests, and more than 1.9 million people have donated $371 million to projects that inspire them. All told, 16 million students have received books, art supplies, field trips, technology, and other resources that they need to learn.