recipients

SEE Fund Award Grants for 2003

Artist in Residence: $1,000 for John Maziarz to continue his program of slide presentations that integrate art into various disciplines throughout the 2003-2004 school year.

Artists Realization Technologies: $1,000 for a 2-day workshop where staff and students will learn techniques to enable physically challenged students to create original artwork.

Going Digital: $900 to purchase a digital camera for the yearbook.

Working in the Community: $500 towards transportation and materials for students with and without disabilities to visit nursing homes.

Lacrosse Club: $1,000 to provides scholarships for players who need lacrosse sticks. $500 of this was awarded from the John Allen Fund.

SEE Fund Award Grants for 2001

An electronic piano lab - $2,200 will purchase portable keyboards to open a piano lab that will provide opportunities for interdisciplinary projects involving student-generated musical compositions and sound effects.

Japanese peace garden - $2000 will go toward the next phase of the construction in the central courtyard which will include a reflecting pool with a bridge, benches, and more plantings.

Spreading the Classics - $500 will allow MGRSD to bring in a professional performer to portray a Pompeian citizen or Roman gladiator or legionnaire for Classics Day.

Stained-glass treasures - $1,050 makes it possible for students from the advanced stained-glass class and those who have completed beginner classes to travel to New York City to view the stained-glass treasures at several historic sites.

Video computer technology - $4,850 will enhance the computer-literacy curriculum by providing the students the opportunity to learn and to use video enhancement.

A World of Difference - $3000 will go toward enhancing the school climate by bringing in the World of Difference peer-training program that promotes a prejudice-free environment in which people are respected for their differences.

SEE Fund Award Grants for 2000

$1,039 for the purchase of equipment for an advanced level stained glass class.

$3,000 to support access for Latin students to the innovative, major exhibit "Antioch: The Lost City" at the Worcester Museum of Art; includes preparation for the visit by members of the Williams College faculty, presentations by visiting experts, preparation of teachers, and a visit to the museum.

$2,000 to support a program to bring prominent guest speakers into the school community.

$1,500 to support the purchase of equipment to improve the cross-country ski trail for the benefit of the ski team and members of the community.

$1,200 to support a course in modern dance and creative movement within the physical education curriculum

$3,000 to support the development of a Japanese Peace Garden in the courtyard of the high school, utilizing the principles of science, mathematics, and visual arts in the creation of a public space.

$2,000 to provide materials to support design, construction, and study of a roller coaster project incorporating the principles of mathematics, physics, and problem solving.

SEE Fund Award Grants for 1999

$650 for a collaborative concert project between the orchestras of Mt. Greylock and Williams College, including mentoring by college students and the involvement of a guest clinician-conductor..

$3,000 for the purchase of video equipment to improve the school's public access broadcasting capabilities and help students create video productions.

$3,000 to support a program to bring prominent guest speakers into the school community.

$500 to support the school's mission "to serve its communities by helping students progress toward responsible citizenship." Students will visit other schools to see what roles they give students in school governance and to assess each school's adherence to structured learning time regulations.

$5,030 to a visual arts computer workstation to help the art students learn new modes of creative expression and to help them acquire essential skills in arts-related careers.

$1,000 to support 1999 Discovering New Artists Program, to bring a rising young musical artist into the high school to present an assembly concert and meet with interested students, to be followed by a concert at the Clark open to the community.

SEE Fund Award Grants for 1998

$2,500 for materials for the installation of a classroom-sized greenhouse by Williams College and installed by volunteers and Petricca Industries, Mount Greylock's Partner-in-Education.

$3,050 for the purchase of epuipment to establish a print-making studio to enhance the art program.

$2,100 for a variety of projects and programs focusing on issues of tolerance, racial justice, and communication, to be facilitated and students of the Greylock Multicultural Union.

$2,900 to purchase aerobic exercise equipment for the school's fitness center, for the use of physical eduaction classes, athletic teams, faculty and staff, and eventually the community at large.

$1,450 to support the School Grounds Project, a pilot project to develop a Biology of Agricultural cirriculum - a cooperative, applied, and interdisciplinary course of study to teach biology, genetics, ecology, and enviromental sciences to students of a wide-range of academic levels. Equipment and assistance will be provided by the Forest Garden Project at Williams College.

SEE Fund Award Grants for 1997

$1,000 to a group of students who worked with the Clark Art Institute to develop an "electronic gallery" on the World Wide Web featuring master paintings from the Clark's collection.

$1,100 to bring several regional authors into 7th grade classrooms to provide dialogue with students as they become active readers and practicing writers.

$1,800 to purchase weight training equipment for the school's fledgling fitness center, for the use of physical education classes, athletic teams, faculty and staff, and eventually the community at large.

$750 to bring to Mount Greylock a series of "guests-in-residence" who are sharing their views on social, international and multi-cultural issues with social studies classes.

$1,315 to fund an interdisciplinary engineering project/contest in which students are challenged to apply their mathematical and scientific knowledge and problem-solving skills designing and building bridges from specified material.

$1,000 for an artist-in-residence to teach and demonstrate a new printmaking technique to mentor art students for two weeks.

$2,500 to purhcase sophisticated epuipment to be used by physics students in their experiments with motion and energy.