Since its founding in 1992, the Littleton Public Schools Foundation has provided over $1,500,000 in funding to LPS teacher projects and district-wide programs. Listed below are examples of projects, 
funded through LPSF, that have made a significant impact in the LPS district.
A LEGACY OF GENEROUS GIVING
2009 Scholarships
In May 2009, the Littleton Public School Foundation announced the four winners of its 2009 Spirit of Littleton Scholarships program. Each year, the Foundation awards four, $1000 scholarships, one to a graduating senior from each of our four high schools. Each high school may nominate up to three students from its graduating class. These nominees must not only have remarkable academic achievement, but they must have demonstrated outstanding commitment to service to the community. From these nominated Spirit of Littleton Scholars, the Foundation Board of Directors interviews each candidate and selects one winner from each school. The nominees from each school who do not receive one of the scholarships receive a $200 savings bond, generously contributed by Colorado Business Bank.
Winners of the 2009 Spirit of Littleton Scholarships are:
Spencer Zepelin- Arapahoe High School
Joyce Keeley- Heritage High School
Rachel Wilson- Littleton High School
Greg Norris- Options
Technology Shares
LPS Foundation supporters have generously donated over $75,000 during our Technology Shares Auctions during the Spirit of Littleton Celebrations the past four years. These funds have been used to provide complete wireless internet access and EeePC netbook labs for all schools in the district. We will continue to promote, and with your support fund, district efforts to create a 21st Century Learning Environment for our students.
CA2FE
In 2002, the LPSF provide funding in the amount of $100,000 to establish a program of Fine Arts Instruction (CA2FE) at Centennial Elementary School. The program includes instrument classes in piano, brass, woodwind, strings and percussion. Students can participate in two choirs, theater classes, rhythm and movement arts and computer graphics. Visual Arts include ceramics, painting, and sculpture.
According to surveys, 96% of respondents believe the programs have added value to their children’s education. All survey questions received approval rating of 93% or better.
Since the beginning of the CA2FE program, all measures of student performance – writing, math, arts – have improved, while behavioral referrals, absenteeism, and truancy have dropped significantly. Also, out-of-district enrollment has increase substantially.
Monkeying with Physics (2007)
One of the most difficult things to teach in Physics is projectile motion. Through a $498 Wells Fargo/LPSF funding grant to Heritage High School, the Physics Department has been able to purchase lab equipment (The Monkey Gun Trajectory Apparatus Kit and Projectile Launchers) so that students can make connections between theoretical predictions of projectile motion and actual flight paths. Each year, approximately 150 students will participate n these experiments.
Written language is a challenge for the student with severe disabilities in the PACE Program at Littleton High School. Although many can identify the sound of a word, relate to pictures of a word, or understand its meaning, they cannot always read the written word. The LPSF has funded a teacher grant request in the amount $494.00 for the purchase of picture-assisted literacy software. This software enables teacher to create individual picture schedules and produce picture images for the students to increase literacy.
To give fourth-grade students at Franklin Elementary hand-on experiences with the Physics of Sound, the LPSF funded a teacher grant request for the purchase of the FOSS Physics of Sound science kit. Students learn to discriminate between sounds generated by dropped objects, how sound can be made louder or softer and higher or lower, how sound travels through a variety of materials, and how sound gets from a source to a receiver. Each year, approximately 70 students will benefit from this project.
In the spring of 2007, the LPSF provided Heritage High School with $28,000 in funding to purchase four TI Navigator Systems (2-Math, 1-Chemistry, 1-Biology), which includes a set of TI-84 Calculators for student use in each of these four classes. Phase Two of this program, in 2008, will include three additional TI Navigator Systems and keyboards, costing $22,000 and $14,000 of expanded teacher training.
This equipment can be used as graphing calculators and as word processors. It will permit students to do class work that is immediately available for teacher review and feedback. Improved student engagement and accountability will reduce tardiness and improve assessment.