Thanks to the generous contributions of parents and community members and our scrip program participants, The Drake Fund was able to contribute $37,000 to programs and equipment for academic enrichment at Drake High School in its first year. The requests from teachers and staff that were funded during the 2000-2001 school year are listed below.

• Enlargers for photography program
• Percussion instruments and equipment, turntable, mixer, 3-tier choral risers and choral riser caddy for music programs
• Supplies for 17 new enrichment clubs
• Speaker stipends for literary speakers program
• Video camera, scanner, and CD-ROM writer to create permanent copies of web-based engineering student portfolios
• High quality permanent video projector for control booth in Drake Little Theater
• Computer equipment for Jolly Roger student newspaper
• Funding for 2000-01 Drake literary magazine
• Subscriptions to The New Yorker for AP English students
• Digital camera for Academy X (leadership academy)
• Graphing calculators and viewscreen for science program
• Development of history library for social studies department
• National Geographic CD-ROMs for ROCK (Revolution of Core Knowledge) program
• Equipment for science labs
• Guest artist for first year of International Academy
• Material for mural for SEA-DISC (environmental studies academy)
• VCRs for PE department
• Computer graphics materials for Applied Technology program
• Microvideo equipment for science department