The San Juan College Foundation is proud to offer over $750,000 in scholarships to San Juan College students each year.
In addition to support through scholarships, there are numerous ways that the Foundation offers support to students, staff, and programs.
Thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor, the San Juan College Foundation has provided over $250,000 in support for the following projects over the past five years:
- Advising and Counseling Office Remodel
- CLEAR Program
- Food Security Project
- Harvest Food Hub
- Information Technology Center
- Career Services Support
Another event the Foundation supports, thanks to this generous anonymous donor, is the San Juan Regional Science and Engineering Fair. The regional fair is for students in the 5th to 12th grades, and this year 67 students participated from the following schools:
- Apache Elementary
- Bluffview Elementary
- McKinley Elementary
- Mesa Verde Elementary
- Nízhóní Elementary
- Heights Middle School
- Hermosa Middle School
- Mesa View Middle School
- Sacred Heart Catholic School
- Tsé Bit A’í Middle School
- Navajo Preparatory School
- Piedra Vista High School
- San Juan College High School
The regional fair partners with the New Mexico Junior Academy of Science’s regional paper competition, in which eleven of the fair participants prepared written papers on their research projects and then gave oral presentations of their research on the evening before the science fair. Awards were presented to the top project in the Junior category and the top three projects in the Senior category. These students are invited to present their papers again at the state competition.
The San Juan College Foundation support helped the fair award medals and certificates to the top three or four winners in each category of each division for a total of 40 awards. In addition, 25 special awards were presented on behalf of sponsors such as U.S. Air Force, American Psychological Association, Association for Women Geoscientists, Lemelson Foundation, U.S. Metric Association, NASA, NOAA, RICOH Sustainable Development, USAID, Yale Science and Engineering, Climate Change New Mexico, Regeneron Biomedical Science, and ACS Chemistry.
The top three Junior division winners qualified for the Thermo Fisher Junior Innovator Challenge, which recognizes the top 300 projects in the US, and pays for the top 30 project researchers to spend a week in Washington, DC as part of the national competition. The top two Senior division winners have all expenses paid to participate in the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) thanks to the San Juan College Foundation. This will be held in Los Angeles, Calif. on May 12-17, 2024. In addition, the fair qualified 24 students to compete in the New Mexico State Science Fair in Socorro, N.M. on April 12-13, 2024.
