Grant Scholarships

Grant Applications & Scholarships

Please fill the form in and send it to Kent Attwell, President – The Milwaukee SPE Education Foundation
by e-mail to: kent.attwell@sabic.com

The foundation has a grant review meeting in late October each year to review and award the grant recipients.

Please submit your Grant Application by October 16th, 2019. Download grant application by clicking here

Grant and Scholarship Beneficiaries

Since its inception in 1983, the Education Foundation has made many awards to a growing list of worthy institutions of beginning and higher education. The distribution of grants for equipment and other educational purposes is represented in the following partial list:

Alma School District
Bay View Middle & High School
Brown Deer Middle School
Catholic Central High School
Clintonville High School
Discovery World (Milwaukee)
Fort Atkinson High School
Gateway Technical College
Lake Country K-8 School
Hortonville Area School District
Howard’s Grove High School
Kimberly High School
Mishicot Hight School
Moraine Park Technical College
Mount Horeb Middle School
MPS Samuel Morse Middle School
Nikolay Middle School
North Crawford Middle School
North Lake Middle School
North Star Middle School
Northland Pines High School
Notre Dame De La Baie Academy
Richmond Middle School
Sally Ride Academy
Sheboygan North High School
Sheboygan South High School
Stone Bank K-8 School
St. Thomas More High School
Sussex Hamilton Middle School
Waukesha County Technical College
Wauwatosa School District
Watertown High School
West Bend West High School

2019-2020 Grant Scholarships

Milwaukee SPE Education Foundation reviewed and voted on recipients of the grant awards. There were 24 grant applications. The foundation is allowed to use the money we earn from interest on the Foundation Fund. A total of $58,240 was awarded. Listed below are the grants showing the schools, the award amount and the education item

Merton Community School District. $10,000 – Lazer cutter
Forest Park Middle School. $7,999 – Upgrade CNC router for mold making
Kennedy Middle School. $3,000 – DME MUD Quick change U Frame
Luck High School Tech Ed. $2,100 – 3D Printer
St Croix HS. $2,325- Desktop injection molding machine.
Fort Atkinson Middle School. $2,700 – Dremel 3D printer
Sheboygan Falls High School. $7,999 – Waterjet Wazer to cut inserts for tools used in their 33 ton injection machine.
Waukesha North. $9,250 – Modix Big 120X Large Format 3D Printer
Chilton Middle School. $1,000 – 3D printer
Southwestern WI School Dist. $2,500 – Dremel 3D Printer
Fond du Lac School Dist. $5,190 – SLA 3D Printer
Rice Lake Middle School. $4,195 – 3D Printer

TOTAL $58,258.00

2018-2019 SPE Donations Total $52,567:

UW Madion, Bob Mehn Scholarship ($2000)

WCTC, Bob Novak, Tooling Scholarship ($2000)

Moraine Park Technical College ($2000)

UW Madison Student Chapter, travel and meeting items ($500)

UW Stout Student Chapter, travel and meeting items ($500)

UW Platteville Student Chapter, travel and meeting items ($500)

Kennedy Middle School, CNC Router ($7500)

Denmark Middle School, 3D Printer & filament ($2930)

Sheboygan Falls School District, Tooling for injection press ($3000)

Kevin Rottinghaus/Beaumont, Table top injection machine for education ($2600)

Arrowhead High School, Water circulator ($3350)

UW Madison, Hot runner manifold ($4732)

UW Madison, Powder for SLS machine

UW Platteville, toward 3D Printer

Forest Park Middle School, Table top Injection Machine ($12,500)

The Education Foundation was a leading factor in the establishment of a Youth Apprenticeship Program for the Plastics Industry here in the state of Wisconsin, supporting it with commitments of participation, funding and scholarships.

Past Grant Recipient – Darcy Davis UW Madison

Pictured is Jack Hill (SPE Education Foundation Treasure) and Darcy Davis. Darcy is the 2016 winner of the Bob Mehn scholarship award winner in the amount of $2000. Read Darcy’s Letter – uwm-spe-bob-mehn-winner-letter-201610.