Help Fund Farmington Area Education Projects at Wine Tasting

The Farmington/Farmington Hills Education Foundation invites local businesses, community members and organizations to participate in A Toast to Education on Oct. 25.

The charity wine and beer tasting event also features tastings from local restaurants and caterers. Proceeds from the event, which includes a silent auction, will be used to fund innovation grants in technology, scholastic achievement, extracurricular enrichment and the arts. 

Held from 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m. at Farmington Hills Manor, located at 23666 Orchard Lake Rd. in Farmington Hills, the event will feature live entertainment by Chamber Jazz Trio featuring drummer Alex Trajano, host of The Moth, Detroit. 

The Farmington/Farmington Hills Education Foundation is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, and its mission is to “foster investment in innovative educational opportunities to benefit the students of Farmington Public Schools.” In its first year, the Education Foundation awarded more than $50,000 for projects including:

• technology-based programs and activities in academic, music, special education and physical education classrooms;
• field trips to the Festival of the Arts and to a "Health Exploration" event;
• middle school and high school robotics and TechGirls, a program that encourage girls to investigate careers in science, math and engineering
• diversity student leadership workshops
• Galileo teacher leadership training
• music sensory in early childhood special education
• Destination Imagination
• "Hands on Your Food" cooking and gardening classes