You’re Invited to Off to the Races - Event in 8 Days - 20 Horses Left

You’re invited to the Berkley Education Foundation’s Off to the Races fundraiser on March 16, 2024 at 7 pm at The Kingsley Hotel in Bloomfield Hills. The Berkley Education Foundation (BEF) is a non-profit organization that raises funds to support all students in the Berkley Schools. Their purpose is to maintain and enhance educational opportunities and programs for Berkley Schools students. Every dollar the BEF raises during Off to the Races supports teacher innovation-grants, free enrichment programs, student scholarships and the 8th grade college tour program.

How has the BEF impacted Berkley Schools students?

Enrichment Courses: The BEF has supported elementary and middle school students who have enrolled in 71 free enrichment courses since 2018, including: LEGO robotics, Creative Writing, Diversity, Chess Club, Chopped Art Club, Yoga, Planting Club, Art Club, Knitting Club, Taste of History, Religious Diversity Journeys, LEGO Club, Ally Club and Fueling Up Our Futures to name a few.

Teacher Innovation-Grants: The BEF has funded 265 teacher innovation-grants since 2015, including: fine motor development kits for kindergarten, sensory materials, social emotional learning tools, digital microscope, sensory equipment, flexible seating, a solar powered weather station, cooking & crafting, sensory seats, a tinker lab, water and sand tables, outside play equipment, audio books to go, kitchen equipment for the foods classes, boomwackers, Vernier Labquest science equipment, visiting authors, field trips and more.

8th Grade College Tours: The BEF sends all 8th graders on a free college tour each year. Students typically experience the college campus, dorm rooms, eating lunch in a residential hall and learning what they need to focus on in high school to achieve their goals. This year, the BEF is adding to this trip and making it a College + Career tour with stops at Oakland University and Oakland Schools Technical Campus.

Maxfield Science Symposium: Each year the BEF funds $4,000 in scholarships for students to excel at the annual Maxfield Science Symposium. Students design, complete and present an original science experiment to a panel of judges, who then award the scholarships.
 

Off to the Races Details

• Saturday, March 16, 2024

• 7-11 pm

• The Kingsley Hotel, A DoubleTree Hotel, Bloomfield Hills

• $50/ticket - $60 at the door

• The event includes simulated horse racing, owning & naming horses, a silent auction (powered by mobile bidding), a $2,500 vacation give-away, and most importantly, funding the #BerkleyDifference. 

• Learn more and buy tickets on the Off to the Races website.

If you can’t make it, consider buying and naming a horse to run in the races for $30. Horses can be purchased on the Buy Horses page of the Off to the Races website.