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About the Event
Amidst the many changes in the educational landscape of the past few years, the education community has shown great resilience and unlimited innovation. RAFT has been proud to support them along the way with the resources needed to transform the classroom for future generations.
On Wednesday, September 20 at 6:00pm, join us for our special event as we share what an engaging classroom looks like, highlight RAFT's work and celebrate our STEAM Teachers of the Year, RAFT Heroes, Partners and Volunteers.
Learn about last year’s awardees here.
Look Back at Last Year's Event
The Venue
Join us for our event AT THE RAFT STORE IN SAN JOSE! For the past couple of years we have made changes to RAFT, the candy store for educators. We are excited to have you see the vast array of changes. Be sure to arrive early to make time to explore and tinker. Tour our variety of STEAM Project Kits as well as our ever changing inventory of art supplies, furniture, and classroom materials supplies.
We're accepting sponsors!
Please contact development@raft.net for more information.
THANK YOU TO OUR CURRENT SPONSORS
$30K
INVESTIGATOR LEVEL
$20K
EXPLORER LEVEL
$15K
ADVENTURER LEVEL
$10K
EXPERIMENTER LEVEL
Douglas Spreng
Ned and Jimi Barnholt
Troper Wojcicki Foundation
$5K
TINKERER LEVEL
Bruce and Gail Chizen
Ann and Alden Danner
John and Deanne Ebner
Guidry Foundation
Anne and Ron Murphy
Donna Whitney and Uwe Kladde
THANK YOU TO OUR FUND-A-NEED DONORS
Pamela Ball and Family
The Birenbaum Family Fund
Bon Appétit Management Company
David Falkenburg and Michele Hemeryck
Keli Forsman
Jeffrey Fox
Kevin and Ali Fried
Muffi Ghadiali
James Harrington
Tom and Sue Harrington
Dotty and Terry Hayes
Sharon and Aubrey Hutchins
Vicki and Pete LaBoskey
Webb and Christina McKinney
Matthew Peloquin
Private Ocean LLC
Progressive Benefits
Anne and Ron Murphy
R. Whittier Family Foundation
Stefan Raffl
Karen and Bruce Rohde
Elaine Rowan
San Jose Water Company
Girishkumar Shah
Wilson Sonsini
Sundi Sundaresh
Whitney Education Foundation
2023 Event Committee
John Ebner
Gayle Dilley
Jillian Forusz
Sharon Hutchins
Jacqueline Kubicka
Andrea Whittaker
Donna Whitney
About RAFT
Since 1994, RAFT (www.raft.net) has provided educators with meaningful, accessible strategies, ready-to-use activities and affordable materials to increase instructional minutes in STEAM subjects. As a membership organization based in San Jose,CA, we are known as the “Costco” for educators, with a 32,000 square foot facility that offers hands-on learning materials. These materials include bulk material donations to RAFT and our STEAM Project Kits created by our education team and packed by volunteers. We also ship our materials to educators around the world and provide online resources.