Project Grants

HTH Dollars For Doers Fundraiser provides funding for a variety of projects that meet the following criteria:

1. Field Work: HTH teachers are committed to enriching our children's educational experiences by investigating the world and businesses in our community. 

2. Technology: monitors, printers, cameras, chrome books, 3D printers, labs. Each year, we need to upgrade and replace technology items. As you know, these items are the access to information. For our children, technology is their textbook. 

3. Project Materials and classroom supplies: Materials and tools are needed to build the amazing projects that you see at the exhibitions held throughout the year. 

The money we raise makes a difference in our child's educational experience! 

22-23 Staff Grants Approved:

• 100 mile hike on the Pacific Crest Trail Intersession with Taya Chase - funds used for supplies 
• I have been enormously appreciative of this grant in previous years. What it allows me to do is replace blades, sandpaper, chords and materials, that we use on a daily basis to create our projects, that deteriorate over time and make tools less effective and dangerous. I have been able to apply the grant towards a donors choose campaign that allows me to double the funding and materials we are able to bring into my class. - John Santos, 11th grade teacher
• Fund the creation of a children's book about capitalism and climate - Brianna Pressey, 11th grade
• To purchase 6 infrared thermometers for climate change labs and field work and also 6 heat lamps for climate change labs - Jesse Wade, 11th grade Biology
• Books for 9th grade English learners and most especially by children who don't have access to books - Judy Zapien, EML Coordinator

2021-22 HTH Collaborative Funded:

Thank you so much for supporting me in my goals of studying abroad this summer. I had the best summer of my life by studying my favorite Language (Arabic) making connections and family through my peers and host family and overall enrichment in a foreign country. I would love for my story to continue inspiring younger high tech high students with the opportunity of studying abroad, as it is a life changing experience!  

21-22 Staff grants approved:

• Communification Project - Tools and materials for 11th/12th grade Pat and John's team
• Escape Room Project - funds to take the 10th grade Ryan, Anna, Molly team to an Escape Room for research for their project
• Let It Grow Project - 11th grade Kalle's team is exploring plant structures, ecosystems, and functions
• PCT Trail Hike Intersession - fund supplies for this 100 mile hike
• "Live History" 9th grade project - We are having kids “Live History” by doing things that people did differently in the past.  Kids are hand binding books, creating pen tips to learn about metal tempering, sewing and binding the books with hard covers.  
• MECHA field trip
• Legos Engineering Challenge Intersession

HTH Collaborative funded:

• 40 $50 grocery gift cards for HTH families 
• $1,000 legal fees for an HTH family 
• $250 for funeral expenses  for an HTH family 
• $100 HTH Fashion Show
• $250 Summer Study Program for an 11th grade student

Here are some of the 2020-21 projects your donations have funded:

Chalk Day Celebrations by the Class of 2021. 

Dollars For Doers granted a request to buy the chalk. Woohoo! 

A small pod of juniors came in-person to prepare mutant and wild seeds lab materials for the junior class Marvelous Mutant Mousear Project. For this project, students will design their own experiment investigating genetic modification and the impact of environmental factors on gene expression. This project is made possible with funding from the Dollars For Doers fundraising campaign. 

Students conducted urban ant surveys for UCSD. This was done in HTH schools all over San Diego County! Here is a collection transect with three white cards and tubes with cookies and a survey card for easy identification. Dollars For Doers funds were used for supplies. 

9th Grade - We are hoping to revitalize and expand the gardening space on the back of the High Tech High building. Some of the space was converted into a raised bed several years ago, but the planter has dried out and many of the trees and bushes have overgrown and died. We are hoping to build new planter boxes, turn and amend all of the soil and install a drip irrigation system that will be more consistent and cost effective.

Our educational goals are as follows: A garden can serve as a learning space for all kinds of projects, clubs and grade levels, but this semester we are looking at food production through the lens of justice and security. Access to healthy, affordable food is a dilemma around the world. Many families live in neighborhoods without grocery stores or farmers’ markets and develop generational health problems from incomplete diets. Even in San Diego we have developed a community with segregated access and information about the food we eat.

We are working alongside two local non-profits who grow and distribute fresh produce to families in our city who need it. We will be growing fruits and vegetables at students' homes and in our revitalized garden, we will be learning about the role of food access as a form of privilege and human right and we will be learning the science and math of growing plants that grow people.

Here are some of the 2019-20 projects your donations have funded:

                        

11th grade students working in the Stem Cell Lab experimenting with cancer research. Dollars For Doers grant funded new microscopes and stem cell lab equipment. 

Funds helped buy supplies for this Research Buoy that will
send data back for research

 the "Cuentacuentos" Project 

Funds went to buy supplies for The Cuentacuentos Project team. The team had a fantastic theatre festival with panoramic boxes, shadow puppets, and giant puppets.

Reading nook in 11th grade Humanities classroom funded with a grant from Dollars For Doers

2018-19 Projects and Field Work:

To Rent Dance Studios During Intersession

11th grade students typing their own blood