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Triton Education Foundation
Awarded Grants

 

The Triton Education Foundation, Inc. was awarded grants from both The Newburyport Five Cents Savings Charitable Foundation and The Institution for Savings Charitable Foundation. These two grants, payable over three years and totaling $111,000, have been used throughout the five schools of the Triton Regional School District (TRSD). The first phase of the grant was applied toward the purchase and implementation of the Student Information System (SIS) software program. This software package has allowed enhanced collaboration between schools, educators, and parents in order to strengthen communication between educators and parents/guardians throughout the entire Triton Regional School District.

 

Phases two and three of the grant have been applied toward significant technology purchases within the TRSD, which include 13 SmartBoards with Digital Projectors located in all 5 schools in the District, an automated District-wide Library catalog system, a state-of-the-art printing press in the High School Art Department, as well as the outfitting of a new High School Academic Support Center, including computers with printers. 

 

In March 2010, The Newburyport Five Cents Savings Charitable Foundation awarded the Triton Education Foundation a grant in the amount of $15,000.00 to continue its mission of upgrading technology throughout the schools of the Triton Regional School District. 

 

In April 2010, The Institution for Savings Charitable Foundation and The 2 Depot Square Charitable Foundation followed with grants in the amount of $7,500.00 each for technology purchases.

 

The Triton Education Foundation, Inc. has also received two grants from the Newburyport Area Industrial Development Corporation (N.A.I.D.).  The first grant, in the amount of $10,000.00, funded 30 microscopes to outfit the science laboratories at the High School.  The second grant, in the amount of $6500.00, funded 4 SmartBoards with Digital Projectors for use by the four teams in the Middle School.

 

The Triton Education Foundation, Inc. was able to secure a donation from Hewlett-Packard of a HP Designjet 4500ps Color Plotter for use in the Technology Engineering Department at the High School.  This plotter produces professional quality signage and posters used throughout the building.

 

Triton Education Foundation
College and Career Center

 

In partnership with the Triton Regional High School Guidance Department, the Triton Education Foundation, Inc. is working to establish a College and Career Center to be located in close proximity to the counseling office at the high school.   Benefiting students and their counselors, this project will create a permanent classroom/resource room making the guidance department more student centered and user-friendly.  Equipped with computers and a SmartBoard, the College and Career Center will be available to students in Grades 9-12  to research colleges and career options, seek scholarships, write resumes, search for employment, and assist in the college and career  planning and application process.   

 

The College and Career Center will be available to students during their scheduled grade level Guidance Seminar as well as during study halls and after school hours.   Students will have access to the Naviance Software program as well as other pertinent websites, college search engines, career inventories, and career planning sites.

 

Long-term goals include inviting 7th and 8th graders to take advantage of the center as well as to open the center to the public. 

 

This project was conceived by Dr. Kristen Lazarro, the Director of Guidance at Triton Regional High School and has the full support of the Administration and Faculty of the District.  Grants have been written and donations are being sought for this project which is expected to cost approximately $40,000-50,000.

 

Triton Education Foundation
Funding Successes

 

Since our founding in 2006, The Triton Education Foundation has also funded, through generous donations from our community, the following programs and projects throughout the

Triton Regional School District:

 

Printing Press – TRHS Art Department
District Arts Festival – TRSD – 2008, 2009, 2010
Destination Imagination – TRMS 
Gradventure – TRHS – 2009, 2010
Destiny Automation Library Catalog System – TRSD
Student Academic Support Center – TRHS
Library Reference Books – TRMS
Presentation Carts (2) – laptop, digital projector, speakers, mouse, cart – TRHS, TRMS
Library Barcode Scanners – NES, PGS, TRHS
Mounted Digital Projector – SES
FableVision “Animationish” Software Program – TRMS
Mounted Digital Projector (2) – TRMS Foreign Language Department
Dr. Elizabeth Englander Anti-Bullying Speaker

 

 

 

The Triton Education Foundation is grateful to the following donors who have made a contribution to TEF to show their support of the Triton Regional School District:

Newburyport Five Cents Charitable Foundation
Institution for Savings Charitable Foundation
Newburyport Area Industrial Development 

Bank of America Matching Gifts
Rochester Electronics 
Discovery Clicks Web Services 
2 Depot Square Charitable Foundation
Hewlett-Packard Development Company

 The Boston Foundation
Cultural Councils - Newbury, Rowley, & Salisbury                                                    
Moskow/Hall Realty Trust
Range Light Limited Partnership
SPS New England
Harborside Printing
Adaptive Technology Consulting
Baystate Driving Academy
M & J Foreign Cars, Inc.
Lara Chatterton
Beth DiMento
Darlene Doucot
Kimberly Foulkes
Bill Ganzenmuler
Kathy Jacobsen
Patricia Marshall
Sally Owen
Andrea Sargent
Harriett Stanley
Darlene Sweeney
Nancy Taylor
Nick Taylor