Assabet Valley Receives $90,000 Grant

Editor's Note: The following information was submitted by the Assabet Valley Regional Technical High School.

Assabet Valley Regional Technical High School will receive a $90,284 grant from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center.

“This grant provides for the inclusion of computers and mobile devices in
classrooms and laboratories," said Jim DeBartolomeis, the lead teacher in Assabet’s science department.

The grant monies will provide Macbook laptops, safety storage areas, digital microscopes and cameras and software to the science department, AP textbooks, iPads, safe storage, and Insight 360 Plus student response systems for the math department, as well as VEX kits, a Structural Stress Analyzer and adaptor for the engineering department.

The Life Science grant allowed for the creation of a STEM Alliance at Assabet,
represented by the Science, Mathematics and Engineering academic departments as well as the Biotechnology and the Computer Programming and Web Development programs from the technical side.

“This opportunity ... will prepare students for college level instruction as well as for employment opportunities in the future,” said DeBartolomeis.

The group writing the grant was comprised of a team of a cross section of academic and technical program instructors and administrators, including Russ Mangsen, Alexia Forhan, Jim DeBartolomeis, Chuck DuPont, Monica Hayes, Kim Stencel, Jamal Faik, Nancy Capparelli, and Shirley Lundberg.