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THE BOOK

Of the thousands of projects High Tech High teachers and students have undertaken since the first school opened in 2000, the fifty documented in this book are a mere sampling; we hope they provide inspiration and a starting place for many more creative iterations.  We curated them by asking current and former teachers (now numbering in the hundreds) to nominate work that was both inspiring and replicable.

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“Knowledge emerges only through invention and reinvention, through the relentless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.” 
(Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, page 53)

We realized the best way to categorize these projects was not by grade level or subject matter, because indeed, most of them combine multiple disciplines and could be adapted to any grade level.  They can best be organized by the way students use their learning to make change. Thus our chapters are inspired by Freire,

Invention and Reinvention

In these projects students and teachers are creating something new in the physical world.
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LAKEVIEW 
BLOOD BANK 
TOY STORY 
BUBBLES IN SPACE 
COMPLEXCITY 
ABLEGAMERZ 
SPACESHIP EARTH 
STAIRCASE TO NOWHERE 
THE ARCADE PROJECT 
ROTATIONAL VOLUMES 
CALCULICIOUS 
IN MY SHOES 
PROJECTILE MOTION 
ECONOMICS ILLUSTRATED 
COME PLAY WITH US 
KINETIC COASTERS 
A FIGHT WITH GRAVITY 
RAPTORS FOR RODENTS 
PLANTING COMMUNITY 
THE CHOCOLATE PROJECT 

In the World, With the World

In these projects, students are understanding the need for change in their world and making that change, through service or community action.
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​VersUS 
XONR8
URBAN ANT PROJECT
DOES MY VOTE MATTER?
GROWING BEYOND EARTH
OPERATION STORY CUSHION
BEYOND THE CROSSFIRE
THE BACKYARD ECOSYSTEM PROJECT
THE VOICELESS
MEDIA SAVES THE BEACH
VOCIES AND VISIONS
STORYTELLERS OF THE LAND
Logs of the SAN DIEGO BAY
CHEMISTRY & CONFLICT
THE BEE PROJECT
VOICES OF JUSTICE
STARS IN THE PARKS
THE TRUTH ABOUT FOOD
MAD PROPS PODCAST PROJECT

With Each Other

In these projects, students are investigating their beliefs and relationships and changing them.
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LIGHT OF KINDNESS
FREE YOUR MIND
IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH
NATURE OR NURTURE
THE SYRIAN REFUGEE SIMULATION
DRIBBLE AND REBEL
TOGA NIGHT
AMPERSAND
MUN TRADE WAR
READING BUDDIES
IMAGINE MURAL
THE WHOLE MEAL PROJECT

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