Dadeville Kiwanis chip in $2K to help schools

By Dale Liesch | Dadeville Record

Originally published 01:06 p.m., October 30, 2008
Updated 01:06 p.m., October 30, 2008

The Dadeville Kiwanis Club helped a local school build for the future with a $2,000 donation to be used for technology.

Kiwanis member Chuck Ogburn presented a check to Dadeville Elementary School principal Joe Ross at the club’s Thursday meeting to help the school install ceiling mounted liquid crystal display projectors in each classroom.

Ross said the money would help the school reach its goal to eventually upgrade the technology in each classroom.

“Our goal is to try to get LCD projectors connected to computers and mounted in each of the 29 classrooms,” Ross said.

The school is slowly reaching that goal as they currently have five classrooms equipped with the projectors and interactive whiteboards. Ross added that the money donated by Kiwanis would help equip three more classrooms.

“The money means a lot,” Ross said. “It shows that this community supports its schools.”

Ross said the projectors and the additional technology would help expand the educational experience of the students in the school.

“This technology will allow students to go on virtual field trips and would open up web-based educational content to us as well,” Ross said. “It allows students to see things they wouldn’t normally see.”

Ross said the goal is to get the projectors in each of the classrooms by the end of the year and the help of the club goes a long way toward helping them reaching that goal as well.

“We still have 24 classrooms to work on,” Ross said. “I think we can get it done.”