Empty Bowls
The Empty Bowls program raises money for area food shelves, and teaches about hunger. It was started in the Robbinsdale Area Schools in 2010 by the Seven Dreams Education Foundation. The original Empty Bowls is a grassroots community event started in the 1990s in Michigan by two teachers. Since then, that event has spread to communities nation-wide. Seven Dreams supports the program by paying for the clay and glaze that community members use to make bowls for the event where we gather for soup and entertainment. The proceeds support PRISM Golden Valley, MN and Near Food Shelf food shelves, both of which serve families who live within the district. Please attend this fun and important event every March - the need keeps growing and you can help!
Robbinsdale Area Schools Spelling Bee
We sponsor a fun spelling bee where students compete against others in their grade level. It's a free event held every February, with prizes and an Awards Ceremony. Seven Dreams donates the prizes.
Howard W. Schwartz Scholarship Fund in Business and Marketing Education
The Seven Dreams Education Foundation administers this Scholarship Fund created by Howard W. Schwartz, a former teacher at Robbinsdale Cooper High School. We encourage others to consider creating a scholarship to support our students.
The purpose of the scholarship is to provide financial support for a student pursuing post-secondary education at a community college, and/or university, or a career in a business-related field. Consideration of the final candidate or candidates will be given to student(s) who meet the following criteria:
Student(s) must be a senior enrolled at Robbinsdale Cooper High School
The student(s) - at a minimum - must have taken a business class, a marketing class, and a computer applications class during their enrollment at Robbinsdale Cooper High School
The student(s) must have achieved - at minimum - a 3.0 cumulative GPA in those business classes identified above
The student(s) will be selected by unanimous vote of the Business and Marketing Education Department faculty of Robbinsdale Cooper High School
A $500 scholarship(s) will be awarded at the Robbinsdale Cooper High School’s senior awards night
About the Donor: Howard W. Schwartz graduated from Robbinsdale Senior High School in 1969. He was an academic administrator and business manager at the University of Minnesota Medical School and the University Hospital for twenty-five years before retiring to pursue a second career as a high school educator. From 1999 to 2012 he taught at Robbinsdale Cooper High School in the Business/Marketing Education Department, and was the department head during that time. In 2001 Cooper was the first school in Minnesota to be certified to offer the International Baccalaureate course in Business and Management. Mr. Schwartz loved teaching and upon retirement established this scholarship to help Cooper graduates pursue business and marketing education and/or career opportunities.
