More than 200 sixth grade students at Upton Middle School in St. Joseph are getting acquainted with their new Apple MacBook Air laptops. The students are receiving them thanks to funding from the St. Joseph Public Schools Foundation, and Foundation President Bill Marohn tells WSJM News the community is to thank.
The students will be able to take the computers home on Friday after a few days of what school officials are calling a computer "boot camp." It's part of the 1-to-1 Initiative, which is a global project to expand the school beyond the walls of the classroom and into the homes of students by providing them with computers to use for school work. The sixth graders will use the computers through eighth grade, at which time they and their parents will have the option to buy the machines to continue on with the digital learning through high school.
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The students will be able to take the computers home on Friday after a few days of what school officials are calling a computer "boot camp." It's part of the 1-to-1 Initiative, which is a global project to expand the school beyond the walls of the classroom and into the homes of students by providing them with computers to use for school work. The sixth graders will use the computers through eighth grade, at which time they and their parents will have the option to buy the machines to continue on with the digital learning through high school.
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