For immediate release
March 23, 2000

Stirling Senior School opens
new computer lab

     Students at Stirling Senior School are flying high tech in their new computer lab. The official opening and public open house for the lab will take place before the regular meeting of the Hastings and Prince Edward District School Board on Monday, March 27 at 8:00 p.m.
     The new lab, located in the school's Learning Resource Centre, has taken two years to become a reality. The school's administration worked together with programs such as Computers for Schools and community partners such as Proctor and Gamble and the Ministry of Health Office to collect the computer components for the lab. Student fundraising brought in $3,000. "The only cost to the school," says Principal John Beard, "was to upgrade the machines that we already had."
     The thirty computers in the new lab are in addition to the three Pentium computers already located in each classroom. With the new lab, computer time is available to an entire class at once. Already, the lab is booked more than ninety percent of the time with each class getting at least two periods in the lab during the school's six day cycle.
     With the addition of the computer lab, the Learning Resource Centre is an integrated centre for both electronic and print resources. Students can read a book on a particular subject and then surf the net for more information.
 
 
For more information contact:
John Beard, Principal, 395-3389