Royse City ISD Education Foundation wins Outstanding Achievement Award

(ROYSE CITY, TX — April 17, 2020) The Royse City ISD Education Foundation has been selected as the recipient of the 2020 Texas Education Foundation Network (TEFN) Outstanding Achievement Award. The honor is awarded to the RCISD Education Foundation for the organization’s Dog Pen Grant.

The TEFN Outstanding Achievement Award was created to recognize excellence and exceptional performance of Texas school foundations that are impactful, innovative, outcome driven and make a difference for their schools and districts.

RCISD Education Foundation Dog Pen Grant utilized a concept modeled after the television program Shark Tank to allow educators to apply for a $10,000 grant in celebration of the foundation’s 10th anniversary. The Royse City High School CTE Program won the grant for the Bulldog Bites Food Truck. This grant utilizes every department in the district’s CTE program at the high school. Royse City ISD partnered with the foundation and donated a retired school bus to be converted into the food truck. Due to the scope of the project, the need for promotional efforts, uniforms, food and customer service, students in a number of career paths will gain real world experience from working with the food truck including culinary, hospitality, business, finance, health sciences, education, Ag mechanics, audio video production, graphic design, interior design, and fashion.

The RCISD Education Foundation will receive a $2,000 grant from the Texas Pioneer Foundation and will be recognized during the TEFN Annual Conference in San Marcos scheduled for April 15-16, 2021.

“We are excited to recognize the RCISD Education Foundation and their Dog Pen Grant which represents the type of excellence and innovation that makes a positive, impactful difference for their district, the students and their community,” said Michelle Coburn, Program Director for Texas Pioneer Foundation.

The Texas Education Foundation Network is a program of the Texas Pioneer Foundation. TEFN was launched in 2012 and created to support local education foundations in Texas by providing networking opportunities, sharing of best practices and providing training and resources needed for foundations to be successful.

Submitted press release by Royse City ISD.

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