Gloucester Alumni

More than $1 million in private donations will be injected into a strained school budget
over the next three years as Gloucester schools enter a partnership with the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology to invigorate the science, math and technology
curricula.

The district will receive $175,000 next year, with most of the remainder of the first   Read more »

By Douglas A. Moser
Staff writer

Gloucester High School sophomores last spring scored higher than the state average on the first science section of the MCAS exam, school officials said.

In Gloucester, 47 percent of students scored in the top two tiers - advanced and proficient - on the biology section of the test, compared with the state average of 42 percent.   Read more »

By Julio Chuy
Staff writer, Gloucester Daily Times

Kudos to the Gloucester Robotics Team, which finished 14th overall during the recent For Inspiration and Recognition of Technology (FIRST) Robotics Competition held at Boston University.

The Gloucester team was one of 50 teams competing for a spot to compete in the national tournament.   Read more »

By Julio Chuy, Staff writer
Gloucester Daily Times

The high school robotics team kicked-off its journey to a February competition that could send it to an international robotics meet in Georgia later this year.

At the school's Science Wing Tuesday afternoon, about 15 eager students thanked supporters as they prepared for a robotics competition sponsored by NASA to be held in Boston in mid-February.   Read more »

By Douglas A. Moser , Staff writer
Gloucester Daily Times

The Gloucester Education Foundation received a $6,000 grant from NASA to boost robotics instruction at the high school.

With the grant from a NASA program called the Robotics Alliance Project, John Chiffer and Kurt Lichtenwald, science teachers at Gloucester High School, will form a team of students to build a robot to complete a certain task assigned by NASA in competition with other schools in the region. None of the participating schools around the country knows what that task will be until January.   Read more »