SparkPoint Articles

For the Spring 2022 Sustainability Blitz, Climate Corps Fellows teamed with Art instructor Teresa Cunniff to give an inspiring presentation on Sustainable Urban Design to the students of Art 401, Three-Dimensional Design. After the presentation, students collaborated to create bio-receptive, modular blocks as they learned to use tools and equipment in the Sculpture Studio. In this project, Art 401 ...

We are very pleased to announce that the SparkPoint Food Pantry officially re-opened on Tuesday, March 22, 2022! Until further notice, our food pantry will serve only students and will operate by appointment only. Due to capacity limits, we are not able to serve community members or drop-ins at this time.  The Wednesday Drive-thru Grocery Distribution ...

SparkPoint at Skyline College and the Business Division, in partnership with United Way of the Bay Area’s Earn it! Keep it! Save it!, are excited to announce free income tax preparation assistance for students, faculty, staff and community members (households that earned less than $57,000 in 2021). Taxes will be prepared every Saturday, February 26 – ...

This past week marked the 70th Skyline College Free Drive-Thru Community Market! At this most recent weekly grocery distribution event we served 987 families (down from 1,015 families from the previous week).  We are now officially the largest grocery distribution partner of Second Harvest of Silicon Valley, which means that we are currently distributing more ...

The Skyline College Drive-Thru Community Market has distributed over 2.8 million pounds of free groceries since we launched in September 2020, but we couldn’t do it without student volunteer support. We are very excited to announce that this grocery distribution will continue January through May 2022 (no grocery distribution on 1/19/2022), but we need your help ...

This past week marked the 65th Skyline College Free Drive-Thru Community Market! At this most recent weekly grocery distribution event we served 908 families under the leadership of the SparkPoint program and with the support of 25 volunteers from Skyline College and our local community! Volunteer support is crucial to provide this support to our community ...

If you, or your family, need free groceries during this challenging time, please visit the Skyline College Drive-Thru Community Market that takes place every Wednesday, from 11:00 am to 1:00 p.m. on the Skyline College Campus through May 2021. This free food distribution is a partnership between Skyline College, Second Harvest of Silicon Valley and volunteers from ...

This past week marked the 49th Skyline College Free Drive-Thru Community Market! At this most recent weekly grocery distribution event we served 880 families under the leadership of the SparkPoint program and with the support of 30 volunteers from Skyline College and our local community!   Be advised: The Skyline College Free Community Market will be held ...

SparkPoint at Skyline College is currently accepting scholarship applications for 25 Career and Technical Education (CTE) students for the Spring 2021 cohort. Grove Scholarship applications are available online at skylinecollege.edu/sparkpoint and are due by 3:00 p.m. on September 14th, 2021. Eligible students will be selected for the program based on three short personal statements that describe who ...

The Skyline College Drive-Thru Community Market has distributed over 1.2 million pounds of free groceries since we launched in September 2020, but we couldn’t do it without student volunteer support. Help us recruit volunteers by sharing these details with your students! Why: Of course, volunteering is a great way to give back to the community, but ...