Herndon Elementary School

The Minerals Management Service offices in Herndon, Virginia, has a partnership with Herndon Elementary School. Through this arrangement, MMS employees are serving as tutors and mentors for Herndon Elementary School students, and several have served as guest instructors. MMS employees have sponsored science education in conjunction with Earth Day and represent the bureau in the school's annual Career Fair, explaining to students how their specialties fit into the overall mission of the MMS. The bureau has helped the school meet its technology goals by supplying maintaining surplus computer equipment. The IRM division is working with the school to develop a plan to provide computer instruction to HES teachers and staff.

MMS has collected more than $260,000 worth of grocery store receipts and almost 4,800 labels, UPC symbols, and box tops from Campbell's soup products and General Mills breakfast cereals that Herndon Elementary can redeem to purchase computers and other school supplies. MMS also has donated a large quantity of surplus office supplies to the school in the last several years. In addition, MMS has provided meeting space for HES teachers and staff.

The school has provided student choirs and ensembles for various MMS functions and participates in MMS's Heritage & Cultural Awareness Day festivities each fall. Plans are being developed to provide student artwork to decorate the common areas in MMS offices.

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Last Updated: 01/21/2004, 10:36 AM