Last year the District received more than $202,000 in Classrooms for the Future funding. The laptops purchased last year paid immediate dividends.

"Students now have the ability to create various forms of multimedia projects, in which they more readily remain engaged and attentive," said PWHS Master Teacher Chris Manero shown working with a student above. "Students are also able to more freely express their creativity and higher level thinking skills through these cutting-edge assignments.

"I had one student comment about our use of online discussion boards in class," Manero continued. "The student was glad that we are using these types of things in class because they have been using them outside of school for a long time. That was an eye-opener and shows that schools need to keep up with the rest of society in terms of integrating technology. Now that we are giving students the opportunity to take some of the same applications that they use in their social life and bring them into school, the classroom can become much more hands-on and less mundane."