We are delighted to share these moments of our students using our science room, a
space where they can explore, experiment, ask questions, and experience the
excitement of learning through discovery.
Behind this room is the thoughtfulness and generosity of one person: Sara Shah, its
founder and sole donor.
When Sara first visited Santa Elena Primary School with Girl Scouts in 2022, she could
not have known what that visit would eventually mean to our school. Later, she asked
about our science resources and learned that our students did not have a science lab.
Having grown up enjoying hands on experiments herself, she wanted our children to
have those same opportunities.
Sara turned that wish into action. Through her funding, vision, and dedication, she made
it possible to transform a classroom into a science room. She also helped create
activities where students could explore ideas, try things for themselves, and ask
questions about the world around them.
Today, we are sharing a glimpse of that vision coming to life.
There is something special about watching children work through an experiment
together. They lean closer, share ideas, notice something unexpected, and want to
know why. In those moments, science becomes something they can take part in. Their
questions matter. Their ideas have a place.
Sara, thank you for caring enough to ask what our school needed and for committing
your time, resources, and heart to making this room possible. Thank you for
remembering the joy science brought you and choosing to share that opportunity with
our children.
We hope you look closely at these photographs and see what your generosity means
here at Santa Elena Primary School. The room you imagined is now a room our children
can use. The opportunities you hoped to give them are becoming part of their school
experience.
On behalf of our students, staff, and school community, thank you. We will continue to
nurture what you have helped begin by encouraging our children to be curious, to try,
and to keep asking questions.
Years from now, a child may remember this room as the place where a love for science
began. Sara Shah, you have given our children the chance to have that memory.
Sara - Donor of Science Room
