AthFest Educates announced their annual grants, awarding $40,172 to local K-12 educators and youth development specialists. This year’s grants included $23,386 for music and arts programs and experiences for young people and $17,692 for instruments and equipment. These grants bring the total of AthFest Educates grants awarded to date to over $464,000.

Jill Helme, Executive Director of AthFest Educates, said, “We are honored to support the creative music and arts educators in our community. It's inspiring to see that even though students are not face-to-face with their teachers, their access and exposure to the arts will not be compromised. We are also thrilled to finally be in a position where we can fund high-school based programming. Our high school music and arts educators are so very talented and it's a privilege to be connected to their work in any way."

Click here to read the press release and here to read the article in this week's edition of Flagpole.