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Winter Park High School Foundation

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Greetings!

As our year comes to a close and graduation nears, we are still working hard, but wanted to update you on a number of projects we have completed. We have lots to share and hope you will scroll all the way to the end.

Our 2019 Restore the Roar was a huge success and so much fun! We are incredibly proud to share that we raised $125,000 and want to thank ALL our donors, sponsors, vendors and attendees, but especially The Galloway Foundation (Jere Daniels) for their $50,000 match. Take a look at our Restore the Roar 2019 video, in case you missed it.

This event helps raise funds for so many needed projects at WPHS and Showalter Field and we are thrilled to now be able to start the renovations in the WPHS Student Media Center and purchase 90 TI-Nspire CX II and TI-Nspire CX II CAS graphing calculators for our WPHS Mathematical Department. We continue to be focused on supporting a wide variety of efforts in support of our WPHS students.

Thank you to our WPHS extended community, we are beyond grateful for ALL your support. If you were not able to attend, make sure you make it next year!

Save the date: February 22, 2020!

A Special Thank You to ALL Our 2019 Restore the Roar

Sponsors and Vendors

Florida Event & Décor – Val and Eric Karter as Presenting Sponsor
Morgan & Morgan
Finfrock Companies
The Carmany Family
Massey Services
Battagalia Group
Christner’s Prime Steak & Lobster
Full-Tilt Constructors
Tringas Orthodontics
Wayne Parkins
The Ciambella & Mooney Families
IBERIABANK
The Brooks, Cox, Miller and Taylor Families
Spire Development
Sonny’s BBQ – The Manly family & Kennon Adkinson
The City of Winter Park – Ronnie Moore and the entire Parks & Rec Team
Steve Johnson – Johnson’s Digital (double check that name too)
Bradmaster DJ – Bradley James
Jen Adams Photography
The Galloway Foundation

Our Spring Grant was announced... and we are thrilled to support the Math Support Center, run by our WPHS Math Coach, Kate Demory. Ms. Demory is an amazing teacher and her efforts in helping students have an extra resource for math is something we are proud to support.

We are saddened to share that one of our members, Derek Gwinn passed away suddenly a few weeks ago. He truly loved WPHS and did so much for our kids, our school, our community, as well as our Foundation. He leaves behind two children (one at WPHS) and will be greatly missed by all who knew him. Read his obituary here, but we know his spirit will live on at WPHS. In Derek's memory, we say...

Go Cats!

Susy

Susy Scarlatos

President, WPHS Foundation

We Gave Away $13,149 to WPHS Student Orgs

We were thrilled to celebrate the success of Restore the Roar 2019 by giving away $13,149 to 31 WPHS student teams, groups and organizations from sponsorships, table sales and donated silent auction items. Our Restore the Roar event raised over $125,000 this year and we would not have been able to do it without our amazing WPHS Foundation Community. Thank you, thank you!

Three WPHS Students Receive Cat Shack Scholarships

Congratulations to our three (3) deserving Cat Shack Scholarship Award winners, who each received $750 to further their education! Thank you for supporting our WPHS Cat Shack, we love supporting our WPHS students. We are SO proud of you! Way to go:

Hector Rhoads
Haariz N. Shafiq and,
Kwavaughn Buckley

WPHS Main Campus Shade Project is COMPLETE!

Check out the amazing shade over the pool area and the outdoor lunch area the next time you are on the main campus! This is an enormous project and would not have been possible without our amazing community and generous donor base! Go Cats!

More Improvements at WPHS - Thank you Donors!

WPHS College & Career Center Has New Chairs

We are thrilled to also share that we were able to help the WPHS College and Career Center with the purchase of new chairs. Stop by to see the new space. We thank ALL our donors for allowing us the opportunity to support these kind of improvements at WPHS! Go Cats!

New Surrey Bike for Our WPHS Students with Disabilities

We are so excited to share this FB video from our fabulous Marketing teacher Meg Dillard Pietkiewicz and proud to have been able to help in the purchase of this amazing Surrey Bike. The Marketing & Applications class is partnering with Pit Crew and Best Buddies to give students with disabilities the opportunity to experience riding a bike around campus. Thank you to ALL our donors who make it possible for us to support these kind of student created and student-driven initiatives on campus.

Here are 2 more videos that are also posted on our FB page under the comments in the Surrey Bike Post dated, March 7 @ 1:20 PM:

New Lawnmower for WPHS Athletics

We LOVE Coach Craig Russell and happy we were able to purchase this amazing lawnmower for our Winter Park HS Athletic Dept and ALL our amazing WPHS Athletes!

It takes a team and we have that in spades and a properly manicured field is at the top of that list. As Coach Russell says...

Rumble Big Cat Rumble!