Recent Grant Awards
Since 1991, MERIT has invested over $1.4 million into enrichment programs that help Millis students get more from their public education!
2024 – 2025 GRANT AWARDS
Clyde F. Brown Elementary School
- Multicultural Flags
- Books for Preschool Library
- Fundations Readers for Kindergarteners
- Professor Bug to visit First Graders
- Additional copies of core texts
Middle School
- Books for School Wide Reading
- Yoga
- Whale Watching in Boston
- Historical Women performance by Sheryl Faye
- Trip to the Titanic Artifact Exhibition
- Energizing School Breaks
- Tools for Time Management
- World Language Art Walk
- Digital Camera for Yearbook
- Functional Skills Group
High School
- District-wide School Newspaper
- Provide books for a book group during April Vacation work
EXAMPLES OF PAST AWARDS
Clyde F. Brown Elementary School
- Bucket Drumming
- BeeBot Coding Mats
- CFB Relaxation Room
- Expanding Our Orff Instrumentarium
- Hands on Math
- Learning Through Literature
- Word Work Stations
- MERIT Innovation Labs
- Project STEM
- Battle of the Books
- Osmo
- 100 Mile Club
- Mats for the gymnasium
- Comprehension strategies
- Smart Boards
- Video Modeling Project
- Silhouette projectors ~ Art Class
Millis Middle School
- Health and Wellness Fair
- Podcasting Studio
- Project Leaf Pack
- Raspberry Pi and BrickPi3
- Geography Alive
- L.E.E.R (Leer, Escoger, Entender, Relajar)
- Mindset Matters
- World Language Week Art Walk
- Bucket Drumming
- Yoga and Wellness for Girls
- Creating a Multi-Sensory, Multi-Movement Needs Classroom
- Project Claw
- The Walking Classroom
- Biome and Resilient House Building
- Q Ball Classroom Microphone
- MERIT Innovation Labs
- Aquaponics STEM Food Growing Systems
- Engagement & Learning with Sphero
- Screenagers Event
- Bring Back Recess!
- STEAM Arcade Project
- Video Resources ‘Bringing Ancient Civilization to Life’
- Nature’s Classroom Scholarship
- Digital Portfolios in the Art Studio
- Polar Fit Sensors for Physical Education
- Guitars for Music Class
- Mineral Mining Project
- Cartography Maps
- Support for Millis Learning Center
- Ipads for Resource Room
Millis High School
- Cricut Die-Cutting Machine
- DSLR Cameras
- Health and Wellness Fair
- Podcasting Studio
- Project Leaf Pack
- Raspberry Pi and BrickPi3
- High School Engineering Program
- International World War II Museum
- Vocation Skills/Office
- MERIT Innovation Labs
- Enhancing Library Resources for English Language Learners
- A lens & Stability for TV Production Class
- ALARM Robotics Competition
- Printing Plain Street Review, a HS literary journal
- Youth in Government Conference at MA State House
- Polar Fit Sensors for Physical Education
- Kurzweil 3000 Software ~Text-to-Speech
- Force for Physics lab tools
- Digital Portfolios in the Art Studio
- Guitars for Music Class
- Woodworking Club tools and supplies
- Computers for Resource Room
