iLabs: Biogen Idec Foundation’s Gift to Us and Our Students
In the previous two posts I made reference to a $100,000 donation to our Museum that benefited programming Museum-wide and in the Micro World iLab. And we’ve had such a busy time moving a number of initiatives forward because of their gift that we haven’t had time to write about it.
Having just completed the final end-of-grant-year report for them, we realized just how much the gift helped us and especially our students. So let me share just what the grant has helped achieve:
First, two quotes from teachers whose students were able to visit our Museum and attend our lab classes, because grant funds paid for the classes and busing:
Our school budget does not allow for the expense of field trips. We use grants as a way to provide for all our students. If we charged the student for a trip, we would be excluding students who could not…
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