Governor's Academy receives $250,000 grant | The Daily News

The Governor's Academy design team met with members of the MBL Ecosystems Center and toured the Marine Resources Center to learn more about seawater systems while designing the Alfond Center project.

BYFIELD — The Governor’s Academy was the recent recipient of a $250,000 Educational Leadership Grant from the Edward E. Ford Foundation.

The grant will help support a new 6,800-square-foot, state-of-the art coastal studies facility known as the Alfond Center, which is set to break ground on campus next year, according to a press release.

The Alfond Center was designed in partnership with scientists from the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole and was designed to take advantage of the academy’s unique location on the banks of the Parker River and Great Marsh. Read more of the article here ...

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