The goal of Dekalb Academy of Technology and the Environment, Inc. is to educate a student population about the essential need to consider environmental ramifications of technology and other business decisions, via a hands-on, community-oriented instructional curriculum. The Academy will improve student achievement via a curriculum which:

• Recognizes the important link between technology and the environment
• Promotes higher order thinking skills – critical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making
• Motivates students by offering a real world context for learning
• Engages learners in investigative, hands-on/minds-on, student-centered, and cooperative activities between industry and environmental groups
• Advances educational reform goals
• Correlates to state and national academic standards
• Considers the environment in its totality, i.e., the co-existence of business and the environment
• Promotes continuous lifelong learning