Hardscrabble Fund 2008 Grants


 School  Description  Award
 Ayers Ryal Side Elementary School
 Providing teachers with access to multiple copies of science and social studies books for use in small group discussion
 $2,647
 Hannah Elementary School
 Providing reading interventions that target students' specific skill deficiencies
 $5,000
 Julia F Callahan School
 Providing a before school program for 4th and 5th graders to read to small groups of lower grade students
 $1,560
 Lynn Classical High School
 To add a lab component to the forensics program
 $1,500
 Lynn Classical High School  To purchase updated science equipment
 $5,000
 Lynn Classical High School  Summer English skills tutorial
$5,000
 Lynn English High School
 For increasing the number of chemistry spectrometers and software
 $4,647
 Lynn English High School  Laboratory supplies
 $4,762
 Lynn English High School  Purchase a SMART board
 $4,870
 Lynn English High School  Purchase Senteo system for SMART board
 $3,877
 Lynn English High School  Literacy materials for limited English proficient students
 $3,898
 Lynn English High School  To purchase 50 Texas Instruments graphing calculators
 $5,000
 Lynn English High School  Vernier Probes and software for the science laboratory
 $3,963
 Lynn Public Schools
 Providing help initiating standards based instruction
 $5,000
 Lynn Voc Tech Institute
 To provide journals for students to write of their excursion to the slave ship Armistad 
$1,500
 Lynn Voc Tech Institute  Equipment for the Lynn Tech Robotics Team
$5,000
 Lynn Voc Tech Institute  For the design and construction of a solar hydrogen generator by plumbing and electrical students
$5,000
 Lynn Voc Tech Institute  To upgrade technology in the school library
 $5,000
 Capt. William G Shoemaker School
 To provide classroom and library materials to supplement the literary program
 $5,000
 Tracy Elementary School
 Purchase a SMART board  $4,327
 Marblehead High School
 Purchase a computer application to improve writing skills
 $3,000
 Marblehead High School  Two SMART boards and projectors
 $2,864
 Marblehead High School  Mimio Interactive and Capture technology for science classrooms
 $4,250
 Johnson School
 For Resource room lending library
 $2,116
 Johnson School
 Integrating marine science across curriculum
 $4,229
 Bates Elementary School
 To purchase modern and classic children's literature
 $3,779
 Salem High School
 Purchase 4 SMART boards for the Biology classrooms
 $5,000
 Salem High School
 To provide a more intensive program for students falling behind in English  $5,000