Each year teachers of younger students request student helpers for their classroom computer lab time. Fourth and fifth grade students are trained and then they assist another classroom in the lab. They often start the computers, get the software ready the teacher wants to use, assist students during lab time, and then shut down the computers at the end of the period. During the past year, Yankee Ridge was awarded a grant from the Illinois State Board of Education to connect two classrooms to the internet. The district has also connected the computer lab this past spring and has plans for connectivity to the remaining classrooms during the coming school year.
Classes schedule one or two times each week to use the computer lab.
The computer lab is also used for staff inservice during the year.