Press Release:
CSMATE Director Dr Stephen Thompson wins Hewlett Packard Award
$69,000 HP Technology for Teaching grant includes
HP wireless equipment and faculty stipend to improve student achievement
The Center for Science, Mathematics and Technology Eduation at Colorado
State University was selected as one of 40 two- and four-year colleges
and universities nationwide to receive the 2006 HP Technology for
Teaching grant, which is designed to transform and improve learning
in the classroom through innovative uses of technology.
During the 2006-07 academic year, grant projects through this program
will impact more than 4,000 students. CSMATE will receive an award
package of HP products and a faculty stipend valued at more than $69,000.
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. CSMATE is using
the equipment to develop the “Labtop” system for integrating
theory and practice in the first-year, science-major general chemistry
course.
The 2006 HP Technology for Teaching grant program is awarding grants
totaling more than $7 million to 130 kindergarten through 12th grade
public schools and 40 two- and four-year colleges and universities
in the United States and Puerto Rico. From 2004 to 2006, HP has committed
$36 million in Technology for Teaching grants to more than 650 schools
worldwide to support HP’s broader education goal of transforming
teaching and learning through the integration of technology.
“The HP Technology for Teaching initiative focuses on transforming
teaching and learning through technology,” said Bess Stephens,
vice president, Philanthropy and Education, HP. “By integrating
mobile technology in meaningful ways into their classrooms, instructors
can increase student achievement and interest and prepare them for
greater success in the competitive global workforce.”
More information about the 2006 HP Technology for Teaching program
and grant recipients is available at www.hp.com/go/hpteach.
