Technology Access Foundation

📎 Student Stories: Words of Encouragement at First Creek
📍Location: Tacoma, WA
📖 Students: First Creek Middle School 6th & 7th Graders

With help from our amazing Multilingual Education teacher, high school students wrote encouraging messages for our middle schoolers preparing for testing. Student-to-student support at its finest! Thank you, Lincoln High School!

We love our Presentation of Learnings days! Students from Roosevelt Elementary in Tacoma recently presented their incredible projects on goal-setting, environmental stewardship, and salmon community responsibility. Families toured classrooms, while students and teachers shared their amazing learning journeys. Thank you to everyone involved for preparing this important student showcase!

We love our Presentation of Learning days! Students from Roosevelt Elementary in Tacoma recently presented their incredible projects on goal-setting, environmental stewardship, and salmon community responsibility. Families toured classrooms, while students and teachers shared their amazing learning journeys. Thank you to everyone involved for preparing this important student showcase!

📎 Student Stories: Arctic Animal Books
📍Location: Tacoma, WA
📖 Students: 3rd Graders at Boze Elementary

Boze Elementary 3rd graders completed an incredible 8-week arctic animal project, creating books to teach kindergarteners. They researched, wrote, designed covers, built dioramas, and sculpted clay animals! Talk about comprehensive learning!

At TAF@Saghalie’s STEM Expo, students didn’t just build projects. They built trust. Hands-on learning gives students space to struggle through hard problems as a team and come out stronger on the other side.

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📎 Student Stories: Exploring Medical Pathways at Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences
📍 Location: Yakima, WA
📖 Students: High Schoolers from Stanton Academy

Students from Mrs. Figgins’ and Ms. Loveless’s classes had an incredible opportunity to visit Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences for High School Tour Day!

They explored a variety of medical pathways: occupational therapy, physical therapy, osteopathic medicine, and dentistry. Experiences like this help students see what’s possible, spark new interests, and open both minds and doors for their futures.

We love seeing our students engaged in hands-on learning and career exploration. Thank you, PNWU!

📎 Student Stories: Improving Motor Skills & Creativity with Clay
📍 Location: Tacoma, WA
📖 Students: 3rd graders from Roosevelt Elementary

Clay is a wonderful medium for everyone, but especially kids. Clay supports hand strength through fine and gross motor skills, handwriting, and creativity.

Students brought their breaching orcas to life together in the classroom. While some were discouraged after they made their piece, their sense of confidence came back when they painted it to showcase their vision.

"The hardest part was making the orca stand, I was trying to make it jump out of the water. I learned the black part is so the birds can't see them and the white part is when animals are below, they don't see them. They use camouflage, so that’s how that works." -Vivian