What is Tech Trek at Rodgers Forge Elementary School?

For the past thirteen years at Rodgers Forge Elementary School (RFES), parents have partnered with the school and the Baltimore community to provide an exceptional, high-tech teaching and learning environment. With technology in the classroom, teachers have increased access to rich, educational resources. In turn, students become enthusiastic, skilled users of technology to learn and discover, create, and collaborate.

Since 1996, Tech Trek, a unique walkathon program conceived and coordinated by RFES parents, administrators, and faculty, has raised more than $175,000 for educational technology at RFES. This remarkable investment in the future of our children has created a school-wide, technologically sophisticated environment, including four computers in each classroom, a 27-workstation computer lab, and a new television studio. Each week, a student crew presents a live Morning Announcement Program, which is broadcasted into every RFES classroom. The studio offers a one-of-a-kind teaching tool for children to write, produce, and perform while gaining critical skills in public speaking, the use of technology, and most importantly, teamwork, creativity, and self-confidence.