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Opening Doors. Expanding Horizons.

Student Opportunity Fund helps Houlton students say

“yes” to experiences that shape their future.

The Houlton High
School Alumni
Association’s Student
Opportunity Fund
is designed to do
something simple—
but powerful: help
students take part
in meaningful
opportunities that
might otherwise be
out of reach.
College weekend lab for selected high school students
Administered through the Houlton Middle-High
School Guidance Department, the fund provides even Driver’s Education can become barriers instead of
flexible, student-centered support for experiences that steppingstones.
go beyond the traditional classroom.
The Student Opportunity Fund helps remove those
barriers.
“Sometimes it’s one opportunity With guidance staff identifying needs and working
- one experience - that directly with students and families, support is provided

changes everything for a where it can make the greatest impact—quickly,
thoughtfully, and with dignity.
student.”
By supporting the Student Opportunity Fund, alumni
and friends of Houlton High School are helping ensure
These are not scholarships. Instead, they are targeted that more students can fully engage in the experiences
grants that help students participate, explore, and that make school meaningful—and prepare them for
grow. what comes next.
Too often, students are faced with opportunities they It’s about more than assistance.
are excited about—but unable to fully access due to
cost. A class trip, a music program requirement, or It’s about access, confidence, and possibility.

Driver’s Ed Class Help with instrument purchased Class trip assistance

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