What We Fund

MHS Hydroponic Farm & Forensic Labs
Windy Hill Farm is a vertical hydroponic farm that thrives inside an insulated, custom-built shipping container. The core science curriculum is supplemented with hands-on experience in agriculture, sustainability, biology, hydroponics, physics, and organic chemistry. Students participate in planning, research, farming, and distribution. This lab will also help a future generation learn about sustainability. It will empower students, allow them to take responsibility for their actions, and contribute to their vision for a sustainable future. It enables them to develop knowledge, skills, values, and motivations for action, allowing them to maintain the well-being of their community and the planet.
The Forensic Lab is elevating Methacton's Chemistry program with a Forensics Lab featuring DNA Electrophoresis, Fingerprint & Handwriting Analysis, Trace & Residue Analysis, and FTIR Spectrometer to analyze counterfeit printing.

Methacton High School is working with Brandywine Virtual Academy (BVA) and Harrisburg Area Community College (HACC) to offer students the opportunity to take dual enrollment courses in which they earn college credit. These courses will be asynchronous. The options for academic subjects include Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Elementary Chinese, and Foundations of PK-4 Education.

Every student at Arcola Intermediate School will engage with the innovative technology necessary to redefine previously inconceivable art tasks. By pairing iPad Pros and various art-based applications, primarily Procreate, students can experiment and use artistic media that would not otherwise be possible in a middle school art classroom. Students will also grow in their confidence as they explore the iPad's power of endless revision and change. Engaging in STEM education will enrich students' skills in innovative technology and other 21st-century skills that can be applied both in the art classroom and beyond. The iPad Pros' countless abilities to our student artists will inspire excellence and creativity.

The entire High School Student body is impacted by the decision to add 15 cameras to the photography classrooms. The cameras are used to take photos in the Yearbook of the entire school, and the images are published in the School's Methactonian for everyone to purchase. In addition, the purchase enables two class sets of cameras to function simultaneously so that students and faculty no longer have to share supplies. The new cameras will also replace outdated technology that is not working efficiently.

This a for the 6th-grade Technology Education program. 30 LEGO Mindstorm Robot Inventor kits were purchased for students who will be able to get hands-on training building and coding robots. This project develops students' knowledge and valuable skills. Coding boosts problem-solving skills, improves computational thinking, encourages persistence, teaches creativity, helps teach digital literacy, is a career-building skill, and enhances confidence and communication skills.

Provide students with graphing calculator loaners while they take classes within the school district. Familiarity and ease with the technology give students a greater chance of passing assessments. Securing access to graphing calculators will yield an enhanced opportunity for students to succeed in higher-level math classes throughout their Methacton career.

Programs for Economically Disadvantaged Students

Science Faculty Membership Fees for MCSTA

Scholarships for Economically Disadvantaged Students for Marching Band

Electric Car Club

3rd Grade Coding Ozobots

Woodland STEM Aquarium

College Tour Trip for Economically Disadvantaged Students

Robotics Club

PCHF Grant -Arcola Philanthropy Club

STEM Renovation of Elementary School Libraries

Ukulele Instruction at Skyview

Post Prom

First Grade STEM Tools at Eagleville

ISTE STEM Conference Registration Fees for Educators

Science Faculty Membership Fees for MCSTA

STEM Simple Machines

One Book, One School

Arcola Orchestra and Air Force Strings

Autistic Support Field Trips

Poetry Alive School Visit

Artist in Residence

Robotics Club

Electric Car Club

Digital SLR Cameras

Display Walls

STEMaker Spaces

Bird Habitat Garden

History Bowl Team Trip

National History Bee Competition Trip

Marching Band Trip to Outback Bowl