On December 22, 2010, BP made a generous donation of $30,000 to the Oregon City School District, stipulating that the funds be used to enhance math and science instruction in our schools.
The district administration chose to earmark the funds for students in kindergarten through grade eight, and a committee was formed to decide how the monies would be spent.
Eisenhower Middle School math and science teachers received $1,000 each, and the funds were used to purchase everything from measuring devices such as graduated cylinders and digital thermometers to consumables such as batteries and distilled water.
The people of BP have truly been benefactors to our students at Eisenhower Middle School, and our students have benefitted from their patronage.
Students in Mrs. Pevets’ seventh grade science classes recently learned to conduct a scientific investigation into the relationship between the length of an air column and the pitch of the sound it produces when students blew over the column. In the process they practiced measuring volume and height using metric tools supplied by grant funds.
Pictured are students from Mrs. Pevets’ fifth period science class.  From left to right are Angela Speweik, Lynnsie Briones, and Brianna Kolodziejski.