Education in the Community
Non-profits providing educational opportunities in their community
H. Michael Hayes’s grandson, Evan, and his robotics team, Angelbotics, won the 2024 First Robotics Competition - Utah Regional and defended their Colorado Regional title! As well as winning both events, Angelbotics was the recipient of the Gracious Professionalism Award, celebrating outstanding demonstration of working together both on and off the field of play. The team of dedicated and talented East High School students spend countless hours designing, building, and programming their robots. Angelbotics understands the importance of investing in young people to support not only East High School’s team, but also inspire future generations of young people to pursue their passions in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. We are proud to support Evan and his team!
President of the Board, Dick Hayes, has been in integral part of the Adelante Foundation since its founding and in 2021 was awarded the Adelante Ally Award. Like Adelante, he believes in the power of opportunity. Founded in 2000 in La Ceiba, Honduras, Adelante’s mission is to empower enterprising women in rural Honduras to achieve economic self-sufficiency. In addition to capital, Adelante offers an integrated microfinance-business development education model. Dick’s grandson visited Honduras in 2017 where he learned the Adelante core values of unity, discipline, hard work, and courage. In 2024, his granddaughter visited Honduras and met the local Adelante staff, learned about microfinance onsite, and met Adelante clients at their place of business. Seeing Adelante in action is the most powerful way to understand the ongoing and sustainable impact.
Escuela De Guadalupe is a nationally recognized Pre-K to middle school independent, dual-language Catholic school founded in 1999 in north Denver as a response to the community's determination to improve educational opportunity to children. Our board member, Dick, is a former longtime board member for Escuela and board member, Lindsey, is a former Centus board member, who offers counseling and testing services to uncover and address such issues as developmental and learning challenges, family disruption and discipline issues for Escuela’s students through the Centus School Counseling program.
Jonathan Holtzinger Scholarship Award of Excellence
Jonathan Holtzinger Scholarship Award of Excellence honors Jon's commitment to North High School and mentorship in the community he so loved. Jon was a dear friend of our family who passed away on June 12, 2012. We miss him and remember his life lessons every day.