MEXICO — Middle school students in the Mountain Valley and Dirigo regions of RSU 10 will be traveling this year, thanks to action taken by the board Monday night.

The board also heard a presentation on efforts made to bring freshmen and sophomores up to grade level in math.

Thanks to a major grant that will pay all but $4,200, all 120 seventh-graders will attend the University of Maine 4-H Camp and Learning Center at Bryant Pond for three nights and four days at the end of May.

Mountain Valley Middle School seventh-grade teacher Lindsay MacMillan said the adventure will teach students survival skills, forest ecology and hunting and bow safety. The remaining funds needed will come from fundraisers.

Also at Mountain Valley Middle School in Mexico, about 45 sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders will participate in an adventure for two days and two nights at the seaport in Mystic, Conn., in March.

English teacher Diane Farrington said the project received a $9,000 grant to cover virtually all of the student costs. Funds needed for RSU 10 buses to transport students to Mystic must also be paid. That figure has not yet been determined. However, those costs will come from fundraising or from the school’s field trips account.

Students will have a chance to sleep in the same quarters that the military did in 1876, as well as climb rigging, and take part in activities sailors once did.

Celena Ranger, principal of Dirigo Middle School in Dixfield, also received approval for an overnight trip to Boston on May 31.

All 72 eighth-graders are eligible to attend, with at least 60 expected to go. The eighth-grade class has nearly $11,000 of the $14,000 needed. That total cost may be reduced if it is less expensive for two RSU 10 buses to transport students rather than a charter bus.

While in Boston, students will visit the Museum of Science, the Freedom Trail, the Boston Aquarium, and several other sites.

Mountain Valley High School math department Chairwoman Lisa Russell updated the board on the school’s progress with the Response to Intervention program for ninth- and 10th-graders who need additional help to meet math standards.

She said although scheduling problems have sometimes prevented the math department from reaching all students in need of help, many more students are reaching mandated standards.

MVHS Principal Matt Gilbert said the scheduling issue will be addressed before the start of the next school year.