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Committee notes $35,000 charitable grant and hears robotics overnight trip request
Summary
The committee was notified of a $35,000 grant to the district finance department and heard a robotics team request for an overnight, self-funded invitational trip; committee discussion emphasized gratitude for grants and asked for standard approvals for the field trip.
The School Committee on May 28 was notified of a $35,000 grant to the district’s finance department from the Marie Bernstein Charitable Trust and heard a field-trip request from the high-school robotics team for an overnight invitational competition.
A staff member told the committee the Marie Bernstein charitable trust awarded $35,000 to the finance department; staff said portions of the district’s recent grant awards are being used to support fine-arts programming, including instrument repairs and the development of a jazz ensemble. Committee members welcomed the donation and praised the expansion of arts programming.
Separately, the committee heard from a staff representative of the robotics program seeking approval for an overnight, self-funded summer trip to an invitational in Indiana. The staff presenter said the team had raised funds through fundraising and student payments and that the trip remains contingent on committee approval. The committee asked for standard documentation for overnight trips and noted that, because it is a summer trip, approval by the committee is still required even though it falls outside the regular school year.
No formal roll-call vote on acceptance of the grant or on the robotics trip is recorded in the transcript; staff indicated they were bringing the donation and the field-trip request forward for committee approval and further administrative processing.
