SHENANDOAH MIDDLE SCHOOL WINS GRANT AWARD
FOR HP DIGITAL ASSIST COMPETITION

MIAMI – Shenandoah Middle School Museum Magnet recently was awarded a grant by Hewlett Packard (HP) for successfully submitting a project first in the HP Digital Assist Competition.

Students Rebecca Santana and Amarilys Enamorado created the winning project, titled, “Understanding Statistics.”  The early submission grant award consisted of a pizza party with two Miami Heat basketball players: Deaquan Cook and Udonis Haslem; Miami Heat game tickets and T-shirts.

The competition featured 20 Miami-Dade middle schools competing against each other to see which school could create the best multimedia project involving basketball and technology, using elements of daily coursework in math, science, reading and/or writing. HP gave each school two tablet PCs and a printer to help with creating their projects.

Shenandoah Middle was the first Miami-Dade middle school to submit a project for the HP Digital Assist program, an education outreach created by HP, the National Basketball Association and the International Society for Technology in Education.

The annual competition, which runs from September to the end of November, is open to 20 middle schools within six urban areas around the nation:  Chicago; Dallas; Houston; Miami; Oakland/San Francisco/San Jose, Calif; and Washington, D.C.  One winning school in each team market will receive an HP technology grant consisting of a classroom package of HP computers, printers, mobile storage, router, projector and a professional development program for teachers.

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