Component+2+-+Needs+Assessment+-+Criteria+C+-+(4+Points)

Component 2 - Needs Assessment Criteria C - //Describes how the determination was made re: the equipment needed for the success of the project. // Value - 4 points

Currently the school has 66 Mac minis running a 1.4Ghz Intel Dual Core with 2GB of RAM, and 66 iMac running a 1.4Ghz Intel Dual Core CPU with 2GB. The school also has 32 eMac with 700Mhz G4 CPUs and 384MB of RAM. There are also 18 Dell netbooks in the school, and a number of rainbow iMacs for roughly a total of 200 computer school wide for student use. With 1100 students the ratio of students to computer currently stands at about five-and-one-half to one. The grant would provide an additional 42,000 minutes of internet access to the student body, and we also are pursing the iPad platform as an exposure to the students of the growing market segment and user-interface of mobile computing options.