Formative Foundation

To support the dpea by providing financial resources, long term direction, and enabling systems and structures. Continuing costs are incurred ongoing to upgrade and maintain the facility and equipment and to pay instructor's salaries pursuant to the memorandum of understanding between the Foundation and the school district.

Steam museum - the Foundation and the santa barbara unified school district are collaborating on improving and expanding the academy facilities through the addition of a new state-of-the-art career technical education pavilion facility that will support the product innovation and design and media arts pathways at dphs. As planned, the facility will include a first-of-its-kind, steam teaching and learning museum in which students will display and demonstrate their professional-quality work and serve as docents and guides. The facility will be open to serve the community and be experienced as a year-round maker faire. The facility will also serve as a training institute for teachers from around the country.

Mechatronics program - the new capstone project for senior year students. This project involves the comprehensive design, prototyping, fabrication and exhibition of a museum-quality kinetic exhibit.