04/10/2026
Save the date: Tuesday, 4/14/26, 5–10pm at Lighthouse Brewpub! 🍽️✨
We’re hosting a Friends & Family Night to support Taft Middle School’s Team Renewable Rookies, our local young engineers who just crushed it at the Oregon Renewable Energy Contest! These kids spent months researching, building prototypes, testing, redesigning… and their turbines produced over 12 joules of energy in 30 seconds. 💨⚡
Now, they have the chance to represent our community at the KidWind World Competition in Madison, Wisconsin! Many of them traveling out of state for the first time, visiting a major university campus, and competing with top young engineers from around the world. 🌎✨
50% of dine-in sales that night go directly toward helping cover travel, lodging, and meals, so your dinner literally helps make this life-changing opportunity happen.
Bonus: bring your McMenamins Passport! With a $10+ purchase, you can snag the Attend a Friends & Family Night stamp.
Good food, good company, and a chance to help these future STEM rockstars shine. Come hang with us and support these amazing kids!