Now in our 20th year, the DEF has funded nearly $1,000,000 to the Duxbury Public Schools. Click on the link below to take a look at the programs we have funded in 2008 and 2009.
Any teacher or administrator in the Duxbury Public Schools or anyone with a program designed to enrich the Duxbury students may apply in writing for a grant using our grant application forms available on this web site. Please be sure to follow application instructions when applying for a grant.
Take a look at our Featured Grant. Your feedback, including photos, is critical in our efforts to raise awareness about the DEF and ultimately helps us to raise more funds for our schools.
$58,979 Science Mobile Learning Project Grant for the Duxbury High School Science Department –This cutting edge technology provides a complete set of PC tablets, Virtual labs, online textbooks, and robotics capabilities for DHS Science students.
DHS Science teacher Cheryl Lewis, grant recipient, is pictured at left along with DEF boardmembers and DHS staff and administrators. Ms. Lewis is holding one of the PC tablets.
This wide-reaching grant impacts students in 13 chemistry classes, 10 physics classes, and two computer science classes a year. In total, more than 500 students a year will benefit from this learning experience which closely resembles the science in college and industry. The virtual lab software component of this grant allows students to work with concepts we currently cannot demonstrate in the school lab. Examples of labs include a space docking mission and piloting a craft to Mars. Additionally, this grant provides the means to develop robotics as a viable curriculum tool in physics and computer science, as well as launch a Robotics Team at DHS.
$58,979 Science Mobile Learning Project Grant for the Duxbury High School Science Department –This cutting edge technology provides a complete set of PC tablets, Virtual labs, online textbooks, and robotics capabilities for DHS Science students.