Mt. Vernon iPaq Project

The Mount Vernon School District wrote a school to work grant from the South Dakota Labor Department for $91,000. This grant help buy every High School student and teacher an IPAQ handheld computer, a Stowaway portable keyboard and a case to store them in. We also used the money to buy a WideRay Jack to beam documents to multiple students.

Our first year into the project students mainly used their IPAQs to take notes, write reports, and use it as a scientific calculator and to record all of their assignments on. Some of our teachers have their students do all of their homework on the IPAQ and beam it to them the next day at class. This year we will be buying scientific probes for the IPAQs that measure motion, heart rate, air temperatures, and PH rate for our High School Science class. We will also purchase some digital cameras and expansion packs that allow wireless Internet. We are also looking at buy some translation programs for our Spanish department and looking at some online books for our English department. Below are some pictures of our kids using their IPAQs.