Community Partners Shine the Spotlight on Aurora Public Schools' Top Ten Ceremony

NEWS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE    
April 13, 2016

WHAT:   Aurora Public Schools’ Top Ten Ceremony
WHEN:   Friday, April 15, 2016, 6 p.m.
WHERE:  City of Aurora Municipal Building, 15151 E. Alameda Pkwy., Aurora, CO 80012

 Community Partners Shine the Spotlight on Aurora Public Schools' Top Ten Ceremony

Aurora Public Schools is proud to partner with generous community organizations to celebrate Top Ten scholars from each of our high schools. Xcel Energy and the Medical Center of Aurora are lighting the way to help sponsor a special event at the City of Aurora’s Municipal Building.

Top ten scholars from Aurora Central, Aurora West College Preparatory Academy, Gateway, Hinkley, Rangeview and Vista PEAK Preparatory high schools will be honored for their outstanding academic achievements.

The City of Aurora, Falck Rocky Mountain, the Aurora Chamber of Commerce, FirstBank Aurora, RBC Capital Markets and Colorado State University Global have also teamed up to help sponsor this event.

Thanks to these generous community partners, students will be escorted in stretch limousines from their schools to the event. A ceremony will be held outside (west of the building) as long as weather permits.

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Interested media may contact APS News Media Specialist
Patti Moon at 303.326.2755 for more information

ACTION Zone Innovation Update

Based on feedback from parents, students, staff and the community, the Aurora Central High School innovation plan has been revised and posted at the ACTION Zone website.  The revised plans from the other proposed ACTION Zone schools were also posted a week ago at the ACTION Zone website at aps2020.aurorak12.org/action-zone/.

Innovation plans for Boston K-8, Crawford and Paris will be presented to the APS Board of Education on March 1.  The Aurora Central plan will likely be presented to the Board later this month. Staff at Aurora West College Preparatory Academy decided not to move forward with their innovation plan at this time.

AWCPA Students Help Donate More Than 34,000 Servings of Food

                                                                                                                            
NEWS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 11, 2015 

WHAT: Students Prevent Food Waste at AWCPA
WHEN: Tuesday, January 12, 2015 at 8:15 a.m. 
WHERE: Aurora West College Preparatory Academy
                 10100 E 13th Ave, Aurora, CO 80010

AWCPA Students Help Donate More Than 34,000 Servings of Food

Aurora West College Preparatory Academy (AWCPA) students are showing EPA regional leaders how they prevent food waste. The student-led CHOICES Club has helped donate more than 34,000 servings of food from their school to homeless shelters and local food banks.

Last summer, the club started an initiative to recover uneaten food from the Breakfast After the Bell program. Breakfast After the Bell provides Colorado students with nutritious breakfast meals.

The CHOICES Club is focused on making AWCPA as sustainable as possible, so when students noticed that uneaten food from the breakfast program was being thrown away, they jumped into action. With support from school staff, the Aurora Public Schools Nutrition Services Department and Division of Finance, the club has been donating to local food banks and homeless shelters thanks to a partnership with a local award-winning organization, We Don’t Waste.

On Tuesday, January 12, the CHOICES Club will show EPA leaders how the program works. Media is invited to see the club in action as well.

The schedule will be as follows:
(8:15 a.m.) Guests arrive
(8:30-9:00 a.m.) Breakfast After the Bell
(9:00-9:20 a.m.) Food is sorted and prepared for donation
(9:30 a.m.) We Don’t Waste Donation pickup
(9:30-9:50 a.m.) Time for interviews 

APS is the first school district in the Denver metro area to sign up as an endorser for EPA’s Food Recovery Challenge (FRC). AWCPA is the first of many schools that Aurora Public Schools hopes will commit to diverting food waste. EPA’s FRC invites organizations to reduce food waste and loss in their communities through outreach, reducing waste in the first place, food donation and composting.

AWCPA students are also current participants of Food-1-1, a new coalition that rescues food from waste in Colorado. This is an evolving collaboration between EPA Region 8 and other federal, state, local, non-profit, and community partners.

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Interested media may contact APS News Media Specialist
Patti Moon at 303-326-2755 for more information

AWCPA Students Show EPA Leaders How They Prevent Food Waste

                                                                                                                                            
NEWS RELEASE 
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 16, 2015 

WHAT: Students Prevent Food Waste at AWCPA
WHEN: Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 8:15 a.m. 
WHERE: Aurora West College Preparatory Academy
                 10100 E 13th Ave, Aurora, CO 80010

AWCPA Students Show EPA Leaders How They Prevent Food Waste

Aurora West College Preparatory Academy (AWCPA) students are showing EPA regional leaders how they prevent food waste at their school. The student-led CHOICES Club started an initiative to recover uneaten food from the Breakfast After the Bell program. Breakfast After the Bell provides Colorado students with nutritious breakfast meals after the school day begins.

The CHOICES Club is focused on making AWCPA as sustainable as possible, so when students noticed that uneaten food from the breakfast program was being thrown away, they jumped into action. With support from school staff, the Aurora Public Schools Nutrition Services Department and Division of Finance, the club has been donating to local food banks and homeless shelters via a partnership with a local award-winning organization, We Don’t Waste.

Since August, the school has donated more than than 1,300 servings. On Tuesday, November 17, the CHOICES Club will show EPA leaders how the program works.

The schedule will be as follows:
(8:15 a.m.) Guests arrive
(8:30-9:00 a.m.) Breakfast in the Classroom
(9:00-9:20 a.m.) Food is sorted and prepared for donation
(9:30 a.m.) We Don’t Waste Donation pickup
(9:30-9:50 a.m.) Time for interviews

*Please note this event is dependent on weather conditions. If school is delayed or cancelled, we will reschedule the event.*

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Interested media may contact APS News Media Specialist
Patti Moon at 303-326-2755 for more information