Celebrating 40 Years of Supporting Excellence and Innovation

June 11, 2024

It all started with an idea. What if we harness the collective power of our alumni and friends to shape the future of Brooklyn Tech? Today, as we celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Brooklyn Tech Alumni Foundation, we reflect on our incredible journey together. Your unwavering generosity ensures our school’s legacy of excellence.

Brooklyn Tech has grown to support 18 majors and 6,000 students annually, while providing cutting-edge instruction in STEM fields. However, as technology advances, so does the cost of delivering quality education.

For four decades, the Alumni Foundation has partnered with Brooklyn Tech’s leadership to raise funds for capital upgrades and educational initiatives. Together, we have strengthened school culture, expanded student learning opportunities, provided facility upgrades, and supported schoolwide planning initiatives.

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Our first, enduring and widest reaching initiative, the Jeffrey M. Haitkin ’62 Faculty Grants Program, empowers teachers, coaches, and guidance counselors to make an even greater difference in our students’ lives.

Through the Grants Program, the Alumni Foundation has supported a wide range of activities — educational initiatives and field trips that range from Trout in the Classroom, athletics, arts, and STEM activities.

This is year, more than $450,000 was requested by our faculty. With your help, we were able to fund more than $255,000 of those activities.

The Alumni Foundation’s Grants Program supported a wide range of activities last year, among them

Student Government and Leadership Conferences
Scholar Athletes – Athletics, Cheer, Stunt, and Step Teams
The Arts: Plays, Musicals, Concerts, and the Manhattan theatre Club WRITE ON program
Academic Competitions – Model UN, Debate, Chess, and Math Equipment and Supplies for our Robotics, Physics, Genetics, Forensics and Materials Testing Labs
Innovation and Cutting-Edge Technology – STEMPilot Simulator Upgrade for Aeronautics, the Development and Testing of Biomimetic Drones for Environmental Monitoring, Drone Certifcation for NSBE Jr.
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Grant size varies from $200 to $20,000, and that's why every dollar donated to our Centennial Fund Fuels these initiatives and helps our students.

You have made it possible for us to continue supporting technology, innovation, and extracurricular activities that enrich our students’ experiences.

Today’s demands are even greater. As we celebrate this milestone, we invite you to join us in supporting the Centennial Fund. Your gift, no matter the amount, contributes to our collective ability to empower students toward reaching their goals.

Together, let us ensure that Brooklyn Tech remains a beacon of excellence for generations to come.

GIVE BACK. CHANGE LIVES.

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I would like to take a moment to voice my gratitude to the Alumni Foundation Association for the Jeffrey M. Haitkin '62 Faculty Grants Program. The grants provided make a huge difference in the learning and lives of students at Tech.

Edwin Velazquez '90

As a Drama teacher, I have been able to take students to the opera, take students to see theatre, have teaching artists come in and work with students on writing original scenes, and have professional actors come in and do dramatic readings of the students' own work!

As the director of the spring musical, we are able to unite the talents of our Drama students, our Music Department, our Media, Architecture, and Industrial Design majors, and our StageWorks students in order to produce a show that is of such quality in sound, design, and performance that upwards of 2000 people attend and enjoy it, and for many it is the highlight of the artistic experience at Tech.

As a Coordinator of Student Activities (COSA), I have found that we are able to take our current student leaders, society's leaders of tomorrow, to national leadership conferences, where they are not only attendees, learning new skills that they can bring back to Tech, but in many cases, they are also presenters, presenting to younger students the skills they have learned through their experiences in student government here at Tech.

We are also able to host events like National Honor Society (NHS) inductions, Student General Organization (SG) inductions, and senior awards ceremonies, where students are honored for their excellence in academic achievement, leadership, and service to our school and community.

None of these things would be possible at the level of excellence that we do them without the generosity of the Brooklyn Tech High School Alumni Foundation.

As you can see, just from the perspective of ONE teacher, hundreds of students are influenced and benefit every year from the efforts of the Foundation, and I am ONLY ONE. I can honestly say, I believe that every student at Tech, whether they know it or not, is affected in a positive way -- and on their behalf, and on the behalf of every teacher who is able to give their students the level of educational experience that Tech students deserve because of the Foundation, I say thank you."