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Google grant enables helps students, faculty use technology
As a result of a Google grant, four Washington Math Science Technology (WMST) Public Charter High School seniors and one faculty member now own notebook PCs to better enable them to use technology to support their educational goals.
Darren Clax, Kiana Duncan, Alex Duran and Ronecqua Smith have all received notebook PCs through the Google grant, according to Dr. N'Deye Diagne, the vice principal for curriculum at WMST who selected them. “They deserve it,” she said. “They are very good students. They are motivated to go to college.”
The four students were selected by Dr. Diagne on the basis of their mathematics and computer science performance, teacher recommendations, behavior and attendance records. Ms. Forcina James, mathematics teacher at WMST, also received a notebook PC through the grant.
On March 19, 2009, in celebration of Women's History Month, Marissa Meyer, vice president of search products and user experience at Google, visited WMST with Debbie Allen, the actress, choreographer and director.
Founded in 1998 and based in Mountain View, Calif., Google is an Internet search company that makes the majority of its revenue through advertising and has recently branched out into applications and mobile computing.
In its letter to WMST, Google Inc. stated that it was providing the grant to “encourage students and teachers to continue to invest time in studying and teaching (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) at their school at a time of decreated education funding and education difficulties.”