A high school in Staten Island, New York, learned recently that it will received $500,000 in funding from the New York City Council for its dental laboratory program, according to the Staten Island Advance.

The newspaper reported December 1 that Councilman Joseph Borelli announced he is providing the funding from his capital budget to upgrade the technology and equipment at Staten Island’s only high school dental laboratory program.

“Tottenville is the largest high school on Staten Island and is home to some of the most innovative programming in the entire New York City school system,” Borelli says, according to the article. “The dental lab upgrades are going to ensure that Tottenville High School remains at the cutting edge of tech-integrated education and continues to provide students with the skills and knowledge necessary to prepare them for lucrative careers in dentistry design and model printing.”