Having survived a natural disaster, students and teachers alike will have tales to tell. Thanks to Apple they'll have a multimedia forum on the Internet to share their experiences with the world. Moreover, after school hours the whole community will be able to take advantage of the equipment to get reconnected with friends and family.
Many local residents have little or no access to telephones or other forms of communication.
Apple engineers and network specialists are installing 20-person computer labs at the two Grand Forks schools, Twiney Elementary, and the C.B. Eilson School, that escaped damage in the flood. Both are located outside the city on Grand Forks Air Force Base, which has served as a community hub for emergency activities since the disaster struck. Working in concert with school officials and students, Apple plans to have a Grand Forks website up and running by the end of the week. Hosted on an Apple server, the site will enable students to post stories and pictures of the flood to the World Wide Web. The Grand Forks School District will operate the two schools three hours a day, five days a week for the remainder of the school year.