Lowell Alumni Association

Grants Program/Designated Gifts Twice each year, we solicit grant requests from Lowell faculty, staff and coaches to fund projects that supplement Lowell High Schools academic and extracurricular programs. Our Grant Committee evaluates the requests and makes funding recommendations to the LAA Board of Directors for their review and approval.Thanks to our annual grants program and generous designated gifts we have received, we were able to fund a wide variety of projects during fiscal year 2022-23 including support for Lowells Science Research Program ($40,000); Speech & Debate team ($35,095); Robotics team ($30,814); journalism student travel to a conference in St. Louis ($21,121); and choir student travel to a music festival in New York City ($7,000). Another $21,000 supported a wide range of school athletic teams (football, basketball, fencing, volleyball, lacrosse and cheer).Additionally, we have expanded our efforts to make important student activities accessible to all students by underwriting the senior picnic to make it free to all students ($26,293); providing transportation for college visits by students who will be the first in their family to attend college ($4,312); and subsidizing tickets to the senior boat dance and Winter Ball ($3,510). Additionally, some of the grant support listed above was specifically earmarked to make it possible for students with financial need to participate in extracurricular and athletic activities (e.g., journalism convention trip).Finally, we funded new academic support programs including school supplies for entering 9th graders ($5,830) and new 9th grade world history texts ($7,602) as well as a special enrollment workshop event ($2,151).

Alumni Programs/Services The Lowell Alumni Association communicates regularly with our more than 33,000 alumni, former faculty and other friends of Lowell High School. We also support and facilitated a significant number of class reunions in fiscal year 2022-23, including several events that had been postponed due to COVID-19. The LAA Executive Director supports those efforts as well as various alumni relations activities, including alumni participation in Lowells annual commencement exercises, which resumed in 2023 after a three-year COVID-19 hiatus.

Scholarships/Awards Each year, the Lowell Alumni Association solicits applications for our college scholarship program from graduating seniors. Our Scholarship Committee then reviews those applications, conducts interviews and makes final selections of recipients in May. Although scholarship awards are announced in May, we dont pay college scholarships until recipients enroll in college and provide us with proof of enrollment. Given our June 30 fiscal year-end, that means we award scholarships in one fiscal year but actually make payment in the next year. We awarded 97 college scholarships totaling more than $194,000 in May 2023. We also provided over $7,600 in Advanced Placement exam fee subsidies to 60 students with financial need in May 2023 and special academic awards (Vicki Chin Writing Award, Ivan Barker Math Award, Dong Lieu Science Prize) totaling $6,900 to nine students in May 2023.