Student assistants play a big role in keeping the media center running. Media is a year-long elective and students learn skills such as using the circulation management system, operating equipment, working closed circuit television and helping with computers. They also learn a variety of clerical skills and build independence and responsibility through daily assigned tasks such as re-shelving books, maintaining bibliography lists for teachers, running errands, creating bulleting board and project displays, and researching topics for the classroom. Field trips to the Asheboro Courier Tribune and university and public libraries help them to understand the role of media in our society and see the similarities and differences in their daily tasks in our media center and the same tasks done in a much larger setting. The Accelerated Reader Program is in full swing .
Students can access the testing program from any school computer.
Contests and competitions are ongoing between homerooms, teams and grade levels. Circulation of materials in the media center has tripled since the AR program was begun in 1996.