Project Grants

HTH Dollars For Doers Annual Campaign 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

2022-23 HTH Collaborative Funded:

Commercial microwaves and carts
$500 grocery cards for HTH families in need over the holidays
Donation for funeral expenses for student's family
Donation for funeral expenses for staff member

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

2021-22 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

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! - Zamzam, 11th grade

2020-21 projects your donations have funded:

Chalk Day Celebrations by the Class of 2021.
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.
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.
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.

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
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
Filmmaking equipment for documentaries in project "Unnatural Causes in the Sequoias"
12th Grade Classroom library

2018-19 Projects and Field Work: