The cards allow the students to get e-mail and use the server without being connected by a wire. The distribution ends a summer of work that has included rewiring the school for wireless connection, revamping the school's web site and adding server space to accommodate the increased number of users. In addition, many teachers have been working on campus through the summer to integrate the laptop technology. Art teachers Karen Hunter and Scott Carothers took many slides of art and made them into digital images that can be used in many formats. Many other teachers spent time developing web sites.
More teachers here have web pages than at some universities.
Students have also been helping with the changes. Seniors Evan Malahy and Courtnee Gordon have helped with tasks from organizing the laptops to helping teachers design web pages. Students will officially begin using the computers in the program when school starts Aug. 19. Official U.S. Time Birthday Announcements will resume August 21, 2001.