Plum Creek donates $3,000 to academy
<p>The Plum Creek Foundation presented a $3,000 check to the Farming for the Future Academy in FFA's garden at the Montana Veterans Home in Columbia Falls on Oct. 4. Left to right are FFA director Sherry Lewis-Peterson, FFA board members Kate List and Kris Knutsen, academy student Hunter Lewis-Peterson and Plum Creek Timber Co. representative Lorrie Woods.</p>
The Plum Creek Foundation presented a $3,000 check to Farming for the Future Academy on Oct. 4 at the Veterans Home in Columbia Falls, where the Academy is located. The money will be used to purchase curriculum software for the academy’s computer tablets.
FFA is a nonprofit school serving students with or without disabilities, with a focus on children on the autism spectrum. The goal is to reduce societal barriers for children through education and life-skills lessons using agriculture and cooperative business as a medium.
Students are exposed to technology as the academy integrates touch-screen tablet technology into the curriculum. The tablets are used to teach students core curriculums of math, reading and writing.
FFA has secured in-kind donations from the Montana Veterans Home, Flathead Electric Cooperative’s Round-Up for Safety, Montana Veterans Memorial Fund, Whitefish Soroptimist, Sue Haverfield, Meredith Construction, ProBuild, Lilienthal Insulation, Stoltze Land & Lumber Co., Jane and Henry Ratzlaff, Barb and Tom Huntsinger, Angie’s Greenhouse, BlueX and Double A Vineyards.
For more information, visit online at farmingforthefutureacademy.org.