Access to Tech in East Grand Rapids

Currently two areas of focus on how we'll provide access for our students. First for our younger students, we are working to increase the number of machines in the classroom and in our labs. We're investigating the use of Thin Client Computing and Open Source software to provide this access. We would leverage our robust network and the broad spectrum of software available in the Open Source community to make our remaining bond dollars go farther and provide more access for our younger elementary students. For our students in grades 4-5 and up, the future will be in individual student devices. I think it's a no-brainer that sometime in the future our students above a particular age will show up with their own connected devices. I can't yet tell you when this will be in place, but the prevalance of web-enabled mobile phones and the availability of sub $200 laptops will make this more and more possible. In the mean time we'll continue to support upper elementary and secondary with solid desktop labs and carts of laptops.