Friends and families of Viper Nation, welcome back! I hope everyone enjoyed their summer break and is ready to kick off the 2019-20 school year.

Resulting from last year’s discussion, Viper Nation Education Foundation will now be officially known as the Viper Nation Academic Booster. 

Other than a new name and logo, our mission of stimulating academic excellence for students at all eight schools in the Four Points area remains the same.  

Because of your continued generosity since inception, Viper Nation has raised over $1 million dollars. 

We strive to reach every student kindergarten through twelfth grade in our community along their academic journey.

Over the past decade, Viper Nation has funded STEM labs at elementary schools, provided technology and foreign language support at middle schools, has given multitude of other grants to initiatives at Vandegrift to name just a few.

I hope you will join us in welcoming Dr. Bruce Gearing as our new superintendent.  I had the opportunity to meet Dr. Gearing the night he was announced as the lone finalist, and I believe he  brings some great ideas, energy and excitement to Leander ISD. Viper Nation is eager to assist Dr. Gearing in implement his vision for our district.

As we prepare to celebrate our #VN10YR Anniversary, our Fall Giving Campaign will be launching October 1, 2019, and we would appreciate your continued support. 

I hope you will also save the date for our #VN10YR Gala to be held March 7, 2019 at the Bob Bullock Museum in downtown Austin. We will be releasing details very soon. 

You can always find additional information about who we are and what we do at our website, at Viper Nation Academic Booster.

Viper Nation is always open to your comments, thoughts and suggestions for our schools, so please don’t hesitate to reach out to any of us.

Wishing everyone a safe and successful year!

Sincerely,

William Farrell

President