EducationQuest Foundation has awarded 69 Nebraska schools nearly $45,000 in 8th Grade Campus Visit Grants this fall.The schools will use grants ranging from $210 to $850 to help fund college visits and related activities to get students on the path to college. Since the program’s inception in 2011, EducationQuest has awarded 647 grants totaling more than $380,000 to Nebraska schools.EducationQuest Vice President of Grants and Scholarships Eric Drumheller said, “Our goal is to get young students on college campuses early so they can envision themselves living and learning there. First-hand experiences are the best way to show students that higher education is possible.”The 8th Grade Campus Visit Grants are awarded annually and are one of several programs EducationQuest provides to improve access to higher education in Nebraska.Awardees are listed below alphabetically by city, then school.Ainsworth Ainsworth Community SchoolsAllen Allen Consolidated SchoolsArlington St. Paul Lutheran School – ArlingtonAshland Ashland-Greenwood Middle SchoolAxtell Axtell Community SchoolBancroft Bancroft-Rosalie Community SchoolsBellevue Mission Middle SchoolBenkelman Dundy County StrattonCedar Rapids Riverside Public SchoolsChambers Chambers Public SchoolChappell Creek Valley Jr/Sr High SchoolColumbus Columbus Middle School Scotus Central Catholic Jr/Sr High SchoolCrawford Crawford Junior Senior High SchoolDavenport Bruning-Davenport Unified SchoolDorchester Dorchester Public SchoolsFremont Fremont Middle SchoolGibbon Gibbon Public SchoolGordon Gordon Rushville Middle SchoolGrand Island Westridge Middle SchoolHayes Center Hayes Center SchoolsHemingford Hemingford Public SchoolsHooper Logan View Public SchoolsLeigh Leigh Middle SchoolLexington Lexington Middle SchoolLincoln Blessed Sacrament School Culler Middle School (LPS) Dawes Middle School (LPS) Goodrich Middle School (LPS) Lefler Middle School (LPS) Lux Middle School ( LPS) Mickle Middle School ( LPS) Moore Middle School (LPS) Park Middle School (LPS) Pound Middle School (LPS) Scott Middle School (LPS) St. Teresa’s SchoolMacy Omaha Nation Middle SchoolMadison Madison Middle SchoolMinatare Minatare Jr/Sr High SchoolMullen Mullen High SchoolNebraska City Lourdes Central CatholicNiobrara Santee Community SchoolNorfolk Norfolk Middle SchoolOakland Oakland-Craig Public SchoolsOmaha All Saints Catholic School Beveridge Magnet Middle School (OPS) Bryan Middle School (OPS) Holy Name School Lewis and Clark Middle School (OPS) McMillan Magnet Center (OPS) Monroe Middle School (OPS) Morton Magnet Middle School (OPS) Norris Middle School (OPS) R.M. Marrs Magnet Center (OPS) Sacred Heart School Omaha St. Bernard Catholic SchoolPlattsmouth Plattsmouth Community Middle SchoolPleasanton Pleasanton Public SchoolSchuyler Schuyler Middle SchoolSouth Sioux City South Sioux City Middle SchoolSpencer Boyd County SchoolsStuart Stuart Public SchoolTaylor Loup County Public SchoolUtica Centennial Public SchoolValentine Valentine Middle SchoolWest Point St. Paul Lutheran School – West Point West Point-Beemer Jr. Sr. High SchoolWymore Southern Public SchoolsClick here<http://www.educationquest.org/> for more information about EducationQuest.
