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The Campaign for PDS is a $26 million comprehensive campaign, with an emphasis on facilities, programs, and endowment. The campaign will give our teachers the tools, ongoing training, and facilities they need to offer their boys a world-class education.

We have successfully completed Phase 1 of the campaign with a goal of $16 million. We are now in Phase 2 of the campaign with a goal of $10 million. Currently, we have raised $3 million of that goal.  The u.knight challenge is a push to raise the final $7 million.


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Our responsibility as a school is to build upon our tradition of preparing boys to thrive and lead in a world with new and different demands and opportunities.

This challenge to secure the funding to complete our strategic initiative of providing world-class learning facilities is essential to our mission.

Rather than telling students about a topic, our vision of learning requires that we engage boys in active, collaborative discovery and exploration.

We prepare our boys to be scholars, leaders and godly men in the dynamic and interconnected global community of the 21st century.

Our boys must excel in critical and creative thinking, collaboration and teaming, innovative and entrepreneurial thinking, cross-curricular problem solving, and leadership. Their world is saturated with technology, science, creativity and innovation. Innovations in all of these areas will continue and even accelerate, coming at us faster and faster. We must teach our boys to be lifelong learners, to analyze and synthesize information in teams across continents, to create new knowledge, to read incisively and communicate clearly, to envision creative solutions to problems, and to lead with integrity.

Transforming our entire campus to be full of learning spaces to fulfill these learning goals is the goal of this capital campaign.

Accept the Challenge.
Help PDS raise $7 million by May 31.
Let’s u.knight for the future of PDS.

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Lee Burns
Headmaster
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C. Kemmons Wilson, Jr.
Campaign Chairman

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Other Ways to Contribute to The Campaign for PDS
  • Dining
  • Media
  • Reading & Learning
  • Art
  • Music
  • Science
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    A New Dining Hall and Kitchen.

    No longer will PDS boys eat fast food or food prepared by another food source simply because we have no kitchen in which to prepare our own meals.

    No longer will some PDS boys be forced to eat lunch as early as 10:55 a.m. or as late as 1:15 p.m. simply because our current cafeteria is much too small.

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    Media Center as an Information Hub.

    With a space large enough to offer video conferencing with experts or other schools, high tech enough to provide our teachers and boys with the most advanced audio visual equipment, and comprehensive enough to house PDS’s existing collection of almost 20,000 library books, and boy-friendly enough to include plenty of light, color, and seating.

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    Mallory Reading and Learning Center

    Each PDS boy is a unique learner with a distinctive set of strengths, weaknesses, temperaments, and interests. PDS develops specific learning profiles on all fourth through sixth graders. Phase 2 will provide PDS boys with an entirely new learning center staffed with reading specialists who will work with our boys to refine their reading skills, comprehension, and fluency.

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    Increased Space for Art.

    Phase 2 will expands 3 times over the space for art instruction, including areas for painting, drawing, sculpting, woodworking, and other hands-on activities which boys need. Art gives boys a strong foundation in the critical 21st century skills of creativity, imagination, communication, and problem solving.

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    Increased Space for Music.

    Increased practice space, with rooms for an orchestra, ensemble, and band.

    Music nourishes the soul and the creative impulse. With its structure and spatial relationships, music introduces mathematical reasoning, and it aids in important cognitive development.

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    Double the Space for Science.

    A deep grasp of science and the critical thinking protocol of the scientific method is an essential 21st century skill.

    Having two hands-on labs will make the science experience deeper and more meaningful.

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    Our ability to offer a world-class 21st-century education hinges on our ability to expand and renovate our facilities.

    Accept the Challenge.
    Help PDS raise $7 million by May 31.
    Let’s u.knight for the future of PDS.