Students donate more computers for kids
20-Sept-2002

Front – Stephen Boger (NC4K), Back – Patrick Hilton (NC4K), Pippa Horton (Teacher/Librarian), Gwenn Lemarchand (NC4K).

Computer science students from the University have delivered a second batch of computers to local children in need as(NC4K).

Earlier this month three Wollongong University students from the NC4K project group delivered 8 Apple Macs to the Nowra East Primary school. The school has 500 students and only 6 Apple Macs to use for group studies.

When Pippa Horton, Teacher/Librarian at the school, heard a radio interview about NC4K offering to help the community; she rang to ask if there were any spare computers available for her school.

NC4K project members were able to refurbish 8 Apple Macs with Claris Works, Acrobat and other software utilities for the school.

These computers will be used in conjunction with the existing school computers to conduct literary tests for the Year 6 students.

Pippa Horton said that with these extra computers the groups could be split into two smaller groups; one to use the Internet and the other to use Word processing and Spreadsheet facilities. The groups could then be rotated between the Internet and the stand-alone machines.

Patrick Hilton said the delivery of the computers had gone well.

" We had used two vehicles because of the number of Apples, a Scanner and an Apple Printer, we were limited to only three group members for this delivery".

Pippa Horton said that the principal was extremely pleased to receive the Apple Macs and looks forward to having all the classes make use of them.