Dobie High School was selected as one of 130 public schools nationwide to receive the 2007 HP Technology for Teaching grant, which is designed to transform and improve learning in the classroom through innovative uses of technology.   

During the 2007-2008 academic year, HP Technology for Teaching grant projects will impact more than 36,000 K-12 students. J Frank Dobie will receive an award package of HP products and a cash stipend for each teacher with a total value of more than $31,000.  

Each of the HP Technology for Teaching grant recipients will use HP wireless Tablet PC technology to enhance learning in engineering, math, science, computer science or business courses. Dobie High School will use this technology grant to supplement the Biofuels Project which will focus around converting cafeteria waste oil into useful biofuels and converting the glycerine produced from the reactions into soaps.  The project is cross-curricular and includes science, engineering and technology as well as economics and environmental studies.  

“We are pleasantly surprised by the overwhelming enthusiasm and support for the project expressed by the students and community,” said Alexander S. Graham, Dobie science teacher and project director. “It is wonderful to see our students get so excited about science and for them to see how science is inextricably connected to all aspects of their everyday lives.  We are grateful to HP for their support of our students, our school and our project.”

The Dobie High School Science Department will use this technology to augment and expand the project with curriculum development, organization and presentation of the project themes and activities.  All Dobie science teachers, teachers of other disciplines and all students from the school are invited to participate in the project. 

More information about the 2007 HP Technology for Teaching program and grant recipients is available at www.hp.com/go/hpteach.