| Atlanta Schools' Office of Public Engagement | | | | The aim at Price Middle School was to help the |
| The Atlanta Schools' Office of Public Engagement is | | | | students by making their work more efficient. The |
| responsible for creating and fostering partnerships | | | | students, principal and teachers at Price Middle School |
| between Atlanta Schools, community volunteers, | | | | all profited from Atlanta Schools' participation in the |
| teachers, parents, national and local corporations, | | | | Hewlett Packard's "Bringing it Home" Program. |
| non-profit groups, and civic organizations in order to | | | | Atlanta Schools' Long Term Partnership with General |
| advance student achievement. The Office of Public | | | | Electric |
| Engagement was created as part of the ongoing | | | | Atlanta Schools has been in a partnership with |
| educational reform that is occurring throughout the | | | | General Electric Energy since 1993 and will continue |
| Atlanta Schools. The Office's aim is to connect the | | | | this partnership in the future. The partnership with |
| schools with any resource that could offer a positive | | | | General Electric involves several different ongoing |
| influence on the success of the students in the | | | | projects and was originally started by former Atlanta |
| Atlanta Schools. Many of these relationships are of a | | | | Schools' graduates who now are employed by |
| creative and ground-breaking nature. Several of the | | | | General Electric. The General Electric Partnership was |
| most successful partnership programs involve some | | | | started as a tutoring and mentoring program where |
| of the largest corporations in the nation. | | | | General Electric employees would volunteer in schools |
| Hewlett Packard's "Bringing it Home" Program | | | | in the area but it has grown to include Saturday SAT |
| The Atlanta Schools has for many years been part | | | | preparation, the Family Technology Resource Center, |
| of the Hewlett Packard's "Bringing it Home" program. | | | | and scholarship programs. There are now more than |
| The Atlanta Schools partnership with Hewlett | | | | 1,500 General Electric employees involved in the |
| Packard is part of a larger program that has | | | | General Electric Partnership in some way. The General |
| representatives from Hewlett Packard visiting over | | | | Electric Partnership has proved to be very influential |
| 600 schools in the United States, Canada and the | | | | in student SAT performance. |
| Caribbean. The main goal of the Hewlett Packard's | | | | In 2002, General Electric donated $1 million to Atlanta |
| "Bringing it Home" Program is to encourage students, | | | | Schools' Southside High School as part of General |
| their parents and teachers to create and | | | | Electric's national College Bound Grant Program. This |
| communicate with technology. The Hewlett Packard's | | | | donation to Southside High School was the first grant |
| "Bringing it Home" Program is an interactive | | | | from the College Bound Grant Program to be given |
| exploratory program that allows students to gain | | | | to a school in the Atlanta Schools. The grant is being |
| practical experience using digital photography and | | | | used by Southside High School's "Strategic Design for |
| computers. | | | | Student Success" project. The school wide project |
| Atlanta Schools' Price Middle School was one of the | | | | plans to double, by 2007, the percentage of |
| locations where students were exposed to the latest | | | | Southside High School's graduating seniors who go on |
| innovations in technology. The Price Middle School's | | | | to four-year or two-year colleges or universities, or |
| students were able to see how this technology could | | | | who enroll in technical institutions. |
| be applied to their own assignments and projects. | | | | |