News release

HP Announces Mobile Education Solution, Grants for Classrooms

CHICAGO, NECC 2001, June 26, 2001

Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HWP) today introduced a solution designed to boost classroom instruction and learning opportunities. HP is teaming with leading educational and wireless technology companies to equip students and teachers with wireless notebook PCs and specialized Internet-based content and applications.

In addition, HP announced grants and projects valued at more than $6 million to showcase this and other HP education solutions in classrooms across the United States.

The solution, the HP Wireless Mobile Classroom, is a self-contained unit that houses 30 HP Omnibook notebook PCs, an all-in-one printer, scanner, copier and fax, and a digital camera. It includes a WIN MobiLAN ONE motorized cart, which provides the wireless infrastructure and allows the mobile unit to recharge and be used in one or more classrooms.

The HP Wireless Mobile Classroom also includes NetSchools Orion service, which provides student content and teacher curriculum management tools, and the Discourse Teaching Suite of software from Mindsurf Networks, which enables teachers to monitor student participation and incorporate the Internet into lesson plans. Schools can order components of the solution pre-packaged by HP partner Wireless Information Networks.

"HP has a long history of commitment to education from both a philanthropic as well as a business perspective," said Cathy Martin, national education manager, HP Public Sector Organization. "As performance goals for schools increase, HP is working on innovative ways to make learning more accessible and effective for students and teachers and partnering with application and content providers to provide comprehensive education solutions for schools and communities."

To increase the use of information technology (IT) as a learning tool during teacher training, HP is providing technology collaboration grants to 10 university schools of education and their respective partner K-12 schools that serve low-income, ethnically diverse student populations⁽¹⁾. The grants give practicing and student teachers training and hands-on experience in the effective use of technology in the classroom using mobile, one-to-one computing tools. The grants include the HP Wireless Mobile Classroom solution, related services and research funding.

HP also is expanding its presence in eight community colleges by providing HP Wireless Mobile Classrooms to be used in pre-engineering programs that help minority students prepare for engineering and computer science degrees⁽²⁾. Additionally, HP announced it will award 10 universities with mobility grants that incorporate HP wireless solutions and e-services. Another 30 universities will receive cash and HP equipment to support special programs for minority students⁽³⁾.

"HP remains committed to investing in the education and skills of tomorrow's workforce and broadening access to the social and economic opportunities of the digital economy, particularly for students in underserved communities," said Bess Stephens, director, HP Philanthropy and Education.

Together with NetSchools, HP also unveiled one-to-one e-learning projects to provide HP Omnibook notebook PCs for every student and teacher along with other HP hardware, training and NetSchools software to two schools: Belle Haven Elementary in Menlo Park, Calif., and Valley High in Wetzel County, W.Va., both in underserved communities.

HP also teamed with NetSchools to announce joint sponsorship of a portion of the Education Commission of the States (ECS) Web site (www.ecs.org) to help educators and policymakers address the complex issues associated with holding schools accountable for meeting education goals.

At NECC, HP is showcasing its vision for the future of learning featuring HP Cooltown technology in development. Cooltown@school demonstrates how pervasive computing will help assure access for all students and enable personalized learning anywhere, anytime.

About HP

Hewlett-Packard Company -- a leading global provider of computing and imaging solutions and services -- is focused on making technology and its benefits accessible to all. HP had total revenue from continuing operations of $48.8 billion in its 2000 fiscal year. Information about HP and its products can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com.

⁽¹⁾ School of Education/K-12 Technology Collaboration Grant recipients include: Adams State College/Centauri Middle School, La Jara, Colo.; UCLA/Hawthorne High School, Hawthorne, Calif.; Howard University/ RH Terrell Junior High School, Washington, D.C.; University of Illinois -- Urbana-Champaign/Columbia Center, Champaign, Ill.; University of New Mexico/Bernalillo High School, Bernalillo, N.M.; New Mexico State University/Lynn Middle School, Las Cruces, N.M.; North Carolina A&T University/James B. Dudley Senior High School, Greensboro, N.C.; Stanford University/East Palo Alto High School/Aspire Public Schools, East Palo Alto, Calif.; University of Texas -- Austin/Porter Middle School, Austin, Texas; University of Wisconsin -- Madison/Cherokee Middle School, Madison, Wis.

⁽²⁾ Baltimore City Community College, Md.; Canada College, Calif.; College of Southern Idaho; East Los Angeles Community College, Calif.; Gavilan College, Calif.; MESA, Calif.; Northern New Mexico Community College; Sacramento City College, Calif.; Santa Ana College, Calif.

⁽³⁾ Mobility Grant recipients include: Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Georgia Tech, MIT, Morgan State, Oregon State, Purdue, University of California (San Diego), University of Illinois (Urbana), and University of Texas (Austin).

This news release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements. Risks, uncertainties and assumptions include the possibility that the market for the sale of certain products and services may not develop as expected; that development of these products and services may not proceed as planned; and other risks that are described from time to time in HP's Securities and Exchange Commission reports, including but not limited to the annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended Oct. 31, 2000, and subsequently filed reports. If any of these risks or uncertainties materializes or any of these assumptions proves incorrect, HP's results could differ materially from HP's expectations in these statements. HP does not intend to update these forward-looking statements.