Help your students get FREE Internet
Sprint Foundation providing free Internet access to students grades 9-12
School with highest survey participation rate earns staff lunch
Are your high school students not completing assignments due to no home internet service? We have a solution, but we need your help. The Sprint Foundation has provided the district with a donation to provide free Internet access to high school students (grades 9-12) who currently do not have high-speed Internet at home. To determine eligibility for the donation, students are asked to complete a short survey by Nov. 17 indicating what type, if any, Internet access they have available to them at home.
The school that has the highest percentage of survey participation will have their campus staff treated to lunch, compliments of the HISD Information Technology Services Department. Click here for more information.
Eligible students will be notified by the district and provided with additional details during the spring 2018 semester. Parents and students are not financially responsible for the donation. Recipients will keep the mobile hotspot throughout their high school career (four years) at no cost to the families.
Students may complete the survey at https://goo.gl/SrpWNw.
Here are some suggestions to ensure ALL high school students complete the survey.
- Choose a class period. For example, all student will complete the survey during second period.
- Choose a core subject that all students take such as social studies to conduct the survey.
- Ask teachers to use the survey as a warm-up activity.
If you have questions about the survey or Sprint Foundation donation, please contact Chief Technology Officer Lenny Schad at Lschad@houstonisd.org.
