The application form is now available for the 2018 EAST Upgrade Grant. Download and edit the application form using Adobe Acrobat Reader DC. Application submissions will open Tuesday, May 29.

Several upcoming student training opportunities have seats available.

The highlights page featuring contest winners and difference makers, as well as videos from EAST Conference 2018, is now live. The logo contest for EAST Conference 2019 is also live.

The EAST Initiative presented the 2018 Timothy R. Stephenson Founder’s Award last week to Armorel High School, while also welcoming 16 Arkansas schools that will establish EAST classrooms next school year.

Thousands of students, educators and guests will converge on the Hot Springs Convention Center March 13-15 to celebrate success and share the work they’ve been doing throughout the school year as part of an annual conference hosted by the EAST Initiative.

The EAST Initiative was named Nonprofit of the Year.

The EAST Conference app is live and ready for download. Log into it using your EAST website account and use it to find a booth on the exhibit hall floor, manage and register for breakout sessions, vote on-site for Best of Conference, scan QR codes to earn points and prizes -- and much more!