To Whom It May Concern: Our E.A.S.T. (Environments And Spatial Technology) lab has taken on an awesome project called Project H.E.L.P. (Helping Education by Learning Programs).
The goal of Project H.E.L.P. is to put our public school district's "technologically obsolete" computers into the homes of students who do not own a home computer. The project serves the dual purpose of helping the environment by keeping the computers out of the landfill, and of helping put computers into the homes of students who do not own their own computer due to financial reasons. Due to technological advances, many otherwise perfectly good computers have been sent to the district storage warehouse when classroom and teacher computer upgrades have been made. The warehouse is becoming filled with computers that could be put to good use. This over-abundance of computers caused some E.A.S.T. Lab students to think how they could be reused or recycled and put to better use. After trips to the dusty warehouse, numerous brainstorming sessions, and discussions, Project H.E.L.P. was born. Our district has several hundred computers that will be made available through this project. Our students have worked hard with our State Representative Janet Johnson this semester getting HB 2557 passed through the Arkansas State Legislature to become Act 1673. Act 1673 now makes it legal for us to offer our district's surplus personal computers for "loan" to public school students attending our school district for home use. High school E.A.S.T. students, with help and cooperation from our high school's computer networking classes (Cisco) and our district's technology department, will repair and refurbish the stored computers to put into the hands of their fellow students. Project H.E.L.P. students will also train the students and parents who receive these computers with basic computer assembly and operation instructions, as well as some software training. Internet safety tips and a list of positive educational websites will also be provided. Open Office can help by providing us with the needed software to load Open Office on these computers for the students to use. Do you have any materials that our students can utilize for teaching about the Open Office programs to these students. Any contributions that you can make to this project would be extremely helpful! We have received a grant to put some of our students to work this summer on this project, so the sooner we know about how we can go about utilizing Open Office the better! If you need any further information please let me know! Thanks for your time and your help. Fred "The Facilitator" Burnett Bryant High School (South) EAST Lab 200 NW 4th Street Bryant, AR 72022 501-653-5427 Fax 501-847-5612 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The Bryant High School (SOUTH ) EAST Lab is located on the NORTH Campus on the WEST end of Building 11." --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
