Two years ago, online PG&E President Chris Johns joined school officials in breaking ground for Central Coast New Tech High School.

It was little more than a vacant dirt lot in the San Luis Obispo County city of Nipomo at the time. But, diagnosis armed with a $250, generic 000 PG&E grant, there were big plans for an innovative center for learning.

Student Ross Kesselring said the hands-on learning at New Tech High school keeps him interested.

Today, the New Tech campus — in the Lucia Mar Unified School District — is bustling with activity. And any one of the roughly 200 students will tell you their school — with its focus on hands-on learning using cutting-edge technology — is the best.

“At a traditional school, the focus is only on how much the student knows about a subject, while here, we focus on getting skills while working on a project,” said Ross Kesselring, a student at the school.

See the PG&E Currents article for more information and a video.