Education Foundation - Investing in Innovation & Inspiration

A dangerous trend circulating on TikTok encourages students to insert objects into Chromebook USB ports to intentionally cause electrical short circuits. This can lead to sparks,...

The Victoria ISD Board of Trustees is inviting passionate and civic-minded community members to apply for a seat on the newly forming VISD Facilities Bond Oversight Committee. T...

Victoria ISD has launched a new webpage dedicated to answering the questions most frequently asked by community members. The page, Victoria ISD: For The Record, now available at ...

Scholarships Are Open! Victoria East and West Seniors, it’s time to apply for the scholarships the VISD Education Foundation has available to you. The application forms are open...

Teachers! The Grants for Great Ideas application for the 2025-2026 school year is now live. You have until April 25th to finalize your submission. The Grant Patrol will be notifyi...

Save the Date! May 15th at Noon the fun begins! The VISD Education Foundation’s annual golf tournament will be hosted at Colony Creek Country Club. It will be an 18-hole, par-3 scr...

On the evening of February 8th, we welcomed Cassie B and her band to the Fine Arts Center. She performed her Dream Like Taylor concert for us and, WOW, did she nail it! From the...

The VISD Education Foundation is proud to highlight Angel Lucy’s Funeral Home and their profound generosity (estimated at $36,000), which culminated during phase II- the shoe try-...

Teachers are the heart of the Foundation’s business, as we exist to support them and our students! To show such care, during day two of the VISD Connect Conference held on July 25...

Growing up in the country circa 1975-1993 with an antenna and a clear night sky, my much older brothers (he!he!) – the real deal jokesters and masters of shenanigans, and I often ...

It wasn’t just another day at the Children’s Discovery Museum. It was more. Not a day but two weeks filled with new campers — and not just any campers, happy campers from VISD who...

The VISD Education Foundation (VEF) is pleased to announce a new $10,000 scholarship opportunity offered on behalf of DNV, an independent assurance and risk management provider op...

Hands-on—inquiry-based—and through trial and error—an engineer uses the design process to “ask, imagine, plan, create, test, and improve” upon a problem or need. This particular ...

It was a sunny, idyllic afternoon when I visited kindergarten teacher Sandra Caltzonzin at Shields Elementary to witness her Grants for Great Ideas project “Planting Seeds for Suc...

The year was 1982 as I sat in my living room on my rust-brown and off-white flowered velour couch hunched over the latest Victoria Advocate devouring, along with my chocolate Jell...

The year was 1982 as I sat in my living room on my rust-brown and off-white flowered velour couch hunched over the latest Victoria Advocate devouring, along with my chocolate Jell...

With budding interest and child-like anticipation, I stepped into Dudley Elementary to visit Jaime Schrade, VISD Education Foundation Grants for Great Ideas recipient, and her pro...

This plant researcher girl had a spring in her step donning overalls and a wide-brimmed gardening hat (well, not really) ready to go exploring to visit third-grade teacher, Amber ...

My 20/20 vision intently peered into a compound microscope and adjusted the knobs to bring forth the highest level of clarity, to observe yeast cells budding. These cells, to me, ...

I’ve been stewing over ways to publicly thank H-E-B for their heroic efforts over the past year to help fund the VISD Education Foundation. But just like that, the grocery store g...