Programs
Wilton Education Foundation programs include:
| Read Aloud Day | Job Shadow Day | Bricks |
| Middlebrook Career Day | Community Conversations | Alumni Directory* |
| WHS Career Panel | ||
| Teacher Professional Development |
Recent Grants
Tom Mann, Chairman of the Foundation and Nan Merolla, Vice Chairman,
present Dr. Gary Richards with a Wilton Education Foundation check for $20,000
for
the "Summer
Institute" professional
development program and up to $30,000 for the purchase of the STARLAB Mobile
Planetarium.
Kevin
Meehan, also in the picture, is the Instructional Leader responsible for
the implementation of STARLAB.
The STARLAB Mobile Planetarium, which will surely excite young scientists, reinforce and enrich the K-12 curriculum. The STARLAB will be housed at Cider Mill, under the direction of Kevin Meehan, but will travel on a schedule to every school. The STARLAB will accommodate an entire class at one time, studying: Constellations, Celestial Coordinates, Solar System and Galaxy, Plate Tectonics, Ocean Currents, Native American Mythology, Molecular Structure and more.