Chevron U.S.A. Inc. announced that the 2014 Fuel Your School program, which launched for the first time this year in King County, generated $600,000 helping to fund 497 local public school classroom projects, 189 of which support science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) curriculum and impacting 67,881 students.

Through Chevron’s Fuel Your School program, teachers at 182 public schools in King County received valuable classroom resources.

Chevron supports STEM initiatives to arm students with the critical skills they will need to succeed in jobs of the future. The Fuel Your School program is part of Chevron’s larger commitment to educational programs in the U.S. which in 2014 surpassed $45 million, and has totaled more than $140 million since 2010. Working with other organizations, Chevron takes a holistic approach to investments in education by getting students excited about STEM, supporting educational standards and proven curricula, and supporting teacher training.

“Innovative approaches are needed to help our local public classrooms,” said Marian Catedral, public affairs representative for Chevron. “The Fuel Your School program is a great example of a collaboration to support public school classrooms in our community.”

Through the Fuel Your School program, Chevron contributed $1 when consumers purchased eight or more gallons of fuel during the month of October at participating Chevron and Texaco stations in King County, generating more than $600,000, to help fund eligible classroom projects at local public schools through www.DonorsChoose.org. This year, the Fuel Your School program generated more than $8.6 million for local classrooms in 22 U.S. communities and positively impacted more than 700,000 students with needed supplies. In 2014, Chevron fully funded the traditional Fuel Your School program in 16 U.S. markets and local Chevron and Texaco marketers helped fund six additional markets.

Since its inception in 2010, Fuel Your School has helped fund more than 23,500 classroom projects at more than 4,000 schools in the U.S. The program has grown each year to support students in various communities where Chevron has business operations.