Educational Support

Helpful Links:

Adopt-A-School

Wildlife Habitats

Scholarships

An important part of our community involvement is working with schools and school children. Our facilities are essentially open-air classrooms as around 40,000 school children take tours each year. Earth science, math, ecology and mining come alive for students whose schools participate in our Adopt-A-School program. Students learn by taking part in our Wildlife Habitat Program and we currently provide many scholarships to qualifying students in higher education.

Adopt-A-School
Vulcan Materials Company believes businesses and schools should work together. For school children from kindergarten through high school, we provide assistance, expertise, materials and people power to schools or individual classrooms in communities that are near our facilities. Currently, Vulcan has over 250 adopted schools. It is our goal to increase the number of our school partnerships every year. The relationships we develop with schools are very important to us. Through our Adopt-A-School program, we are committed to working with educators to help young people learn about science, math and business.

Some of the ways we support schools includes the following.

	Mentoring programs
	Career Days
	Accelerated reading programs
	School clean-ups
	Painting and landscaping
	Judging math contests
	Providing school supplies
	Stone donations
	Junior Achievement
	Donations of computers
	Material and labor to build playgrounds
	Providing athletic scoreboards
	Classroom presentations
	Project Graduation
	Sponsoring field trips

Click here to view a copy of our Adopt-A-School sample contract.

Wildlife Habitats
Conducting a mining business means we own and lease large tracts of land. For this reason, many of our environmental and charitable activities center on preserving land and its wildlife inhabitants. Another way we work with schools is by involving students in helping to develop and maintain the wildlife habitats that are located at many of our facilities. We began a partnership with the Wildlife Habitat Council in the late 1980s, and developed the first site in the country to be certified by the Council as a sanctioned, enhanced habitat for indigenous wildlife on corporate lands. Today, 37 of our quarry buffer areas are certified wildlife habitats. These habitats must be recertified by the Council from time to time and have to be continually maintained. Habitats or shelters such as birdhouses have to be built, special areas must be created and even crops planted to attract and feed the wildlife population. Working together to build habitats to protect indigenous wildlife is a way to involve your students in hands-on activities as they learn about wildlife. We are always looking for ideas and projects that will help us improve our wildlife habitats. If you have a particular project in mind or an idea you would like to share with us, please contact us at learning@vmcmail.com.

The following is a list of our wildlife habitat sites.

Scholarships
The scholarships we fund allow us to have a major impact on the educational resources that are available to older students. We currently fund 65 scholarships, seven of which are fully endowed.

Our corporate-sponsored scholarships programs include:

Presidential Scholarship, Auburn University
One scholarship is awarded each year. This is the school’s top, four-year scholarship. Applications should be made directly to the University prior to December 1st of the student’s senior year. For additional information, contact Auburn University.

Blount-Monaghan-Vulcan Honors Scholarship, Birmingham-Southern College
For additional information, contact Birmingham-Southern College.

Charles W. Ireland Presidential Scholarship, University of Alabama at Birmingham
For additional information, contact the University of Alabama, Birmingham.

Engineering Honors Scholarship, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Engineering
One scholarship is awarded each year. For additional information, contact the University of Alabama, Birmingham.

Industrial Scholars Program, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Engineering
The program includes a scholarship and internship at Vulcan. For additional information, contact the University of Alabama, Birmingham.

Presidential Scholarship, University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa
One scholarship is awarded each year. This is the school’s top four-year scholarship. Applications should be made directly to the University and prior to January 15 of the student’s senior year. For additional information, contact the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.

J.G.G. Frost-Vulcan Materials Scholarship, University of Alabama School of Engineering
Open to students in the College of Engineering who are employees or family members of Vulcan employees, or who are chemical engineering majors. If there are not enough qualified applicants in these categories, other engineering students may be considered. For additional information, contact the Scholarship Selection Committee, College of Engineering, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.

National Stone, Sand, and Gravel Association Quarry Engineering Scholarship Program
These $2000 scholarships are for students intending to pursue a career in the stone industry. For additional information contact Dell Veal, Vulcan Materials Company, P.O. Box 385014, Birmingham, AL 35238-5014 or call (205)298-3275.

The Vulcan Materials Company Scholarship (administered by National Merit Scholarship Corporation)
This scholarship is open only to children and step-children of Vulcan Materials Company employees. Students must apply by November 1 of their high school junior year. Applications are available at all division human resources offices.

The Vulcan Materials Company, University of Montevallo Scholarship
This scholarship is open only to children and stepchildren of Vulcan Materials Company employees. Students should apply directly to the University of Montevallo prior to April 30 of their high school senior year.