The Impact of Your Donation
For ten years, your generosity has made all the difference. Your donor dollars have allowed d.tech to:
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1. Attract and retain top teachers
Since opening its doors, d.tech has strived to find the best teachers who align with its mission and core values. Our Koi Pond Annual Fund aims to make our teachers the highest-paid charter school educators in the Bay Area. Your generous donations will directly contribute to achieving this goal and supporting the excellence in education that d.tech strives for every day.
2. Maintain a state-of-the-art makerspace
D.tech’s impressive Design Realization Garage (affecitonately known as “the DRG”) is an 8,000 square foot, two story fabrication lab. It is an interdisciplinary space for students to prototype design ideas and create visual representations of their thinking. It is equipped with rapid prototyping materials and tools such as laser cutters, 3D printers, soldering stations, film editing and design software, and much more.
3. Continue to improve the sports and club opportunities for students
Sports
Design Tech Athletics is committed to providing a positive, challenging, competitive, and fair athletic experience that emphasizes dtech principles coupled with personal integrity, sportsmanship, wellness, and fulfillment of the student athlete’s potential. Currently d.tech offers nine total sports throughout the school year.
Clubs
Clubs at d.tech are created, organized, and run by students: Student founders find a staff mentor, create a mission statement and organizational structure, and commit to an annual “service to the community”. The clubs cover everything from feminist and cultural groups, art & photography, coding, singing, hip hop, leadership groups, music, gaming, robotics, young entrepreneurs, community service and more.
How the Koi Pond Annual Fund Gets Distributed
When a Koi Fish is kept in a small bowl, it will only grow to the size of the bowl; raised in a large pond, the same fish will flourish to its full potential. Our students deserve the biggest pond possible. With your help, that’s what we intend to give them at Design Tech High School.
d.tech is a state-funded public school with ambitions for its students that vastly surpass the realities of what its school budget can fund. When you donate to the Koi Pond Annual Fund, you have an enormous impact on our students’ experience.
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