Next Event: February 8, 2008
The Annual Scholarship Auction Dinner’s goal is to raise dollars for culinary programs, general scholarships and other needs identified by the board. For this event, Culinary Arts students prepare an enticing selection of items displayed artfully throughout the cafeteria. Dinner guests move about the room sampling from every station. The event seats up to 250 guests and often features scholarship winners and other speakers. In 2006, the theme was Mardi Gras; in 2007, 70’s Rock and the theme for 2008 is Hawaiian Luau. Sign up now

Event Sponors

 
Kent Station LLC Go to website
Cecilia and Stanley Pollock
King and Bunny’s Discount Appliance and TV Go to website

The Renton and Bates Technical College Foundations, in conjunction with their Commercial Building – Facilities Maintenance Engineer programs, International Union of Operating Engineers Local 286 and Local 609 and business sponsors, have developed the new Washington State Boiler Operators Symposium updating professionals in industry. Business sponsorship from American Technical Publishers, Inc., CH20, Inc., Cole Industries, Inc. and Pacific Fluid Solutions benefited participants and increased the dollars available for scholarships at both schools for beginning students in these specialties.

In its second year, Renton Technical College hosted the symposium in 2007 with approximately 140 people attending the 2-day session. The symposium will rotate each year with the 2008 event occurring at Bates Technical College. The symposium culminated with the offering of the Boiler Refresher Exam, (a continuing education requirement for boiler operators).

An entry fee covered all training, refreshments, and test fees for this event. All involved deemed the event a great success. Each technical college was able to deposit $2,800 into their respective programs’ scholarship fund.

The Childhood Matters conference helps to educate professionals in the field of Early Childhood Education and is the vehicle through which the Foundation is building an Endowment and providing scholarships to support students seeking careers in Early Childhood Education. This serves the dual purpose of workforce development and enhancing professional’s knowledge and the advancement of the profession. 400 educators attended this year’s conference where over 30 sessions were offered including a broad range of topics such as The Language Of Music, Room To Move, Giving Tough Feedback To People You Like, Early Brain Development, Discipline and Guidance, Taming Transitions, Children Are The Curriculum and Science Safari. Participants received 5 STARS credits -- the Washington State continuing education requirement for early child hood educators, of which they must earn 10 annually. This year the conference netted $15,000 of which $5,000 will be used to award 14 scholarships, 7 awarded to full-time students and 7 to part-time students working on AAS degrees. The remaining $10,000 was contributed to the growing endowment, now $40,000, after 4 years of the program.

Sponsors and contributors of this year’s conference include: The Boeing Company, Educational Training Partners, Saltwater Zapf, Child Care Resources, Division of Early Learning, Bright Horizons, Foundation for Early Learning, South King County AEYC, Lakeshore Learning Materials and Kaplan School Supplies

Next Event: June 2008
The Culinary Arts Graduation Dinner is an opportunity for the graduating Culinary Arts students to display their talents in a culminating 5 - star dinner. The students plan this event completely; they create the theme, choose the menu and prepare the multi-course meal. Each course is listed in the program with a description by the student who created it. This event seats 100 guests. For the 2006 dinner students chose a Northwest seafood theme; in 2007 students chose a Mediterranean theme.

Event Sponors

 
Kent Station LLC Go to website
Cecilia and Stanley Pollock
King and Bunny’s Discount Appliance and TV Go to website

Next Event: Late Spring/Early Summer of 2008
The Annual Golf Tournament, raises dollars for a welding scholarship, alumni scholarship and helps fund on-campus activities such as faculty/staff awards and employee appreciation events. This year’s sponsors include: C.K. Worldwide, D&B Welding Supply, Lincoln Electric, Parabs, Dragon Welding, Vince’s Coffee, Genie, Trade & Associations, Fatigue Technology Inc., Kent Oxygen, Jorgensen Forge, Foster BJJ and Miller Domestic Sales.