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| Community Events - NetDay96, Jackson County, NC Part 1 of 3 | NetDay96 - Part 1 - NetDay96 - Part 2 - NetDay96 - Part 3 | ||
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| NetDay continues with an ongoing national effort. But NetDay97 still requires the hardy volunteers willing to give of their time to make a difference in their community. Check in with NetDay97's national web site and do your part! | Smoky Mountain Elementary School sits on the southern edge of the Smoky Mountain National Park. Those who arrived at the starting time of 9 a.m. found a crew of folks had already been inside the building for a couple of hours, finishing a preparation of refreshments, wires and classrooms for installation. | This elementary school serves grades K-8, but today the team wired 12 classrooms in grades K-5. The holes were drilled through the walls earlier in the week. Today it's wire pulling time. | |
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| Peggy Wike, Jackson County Schools Media Director greeted our teams and explained our mission. (Call Mrs. Wike to donate for additional kits. One kit will wire six classrooms.) | Larry Tucker, Jackson County School's Computer Coordinator discussed the building layout. | Dr. Ralph Devane, Director of the Center for Math & Science Education in the College of Education and Allied Professions, Western Carolina University, and others, absorbed the master plan. | |
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| Just one wing of the building would be tackled today. | It is Homecoming Day at University, but studying a building map has greater appeal than preparing for an exam next week in the Computers in Education course. | ||
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| Dr. Lynn Heinrichs from WCU's College of Business helps tape the event shooting over rows of her students and those of Dr. Robert Houghton's Computers in Education course. | Dr. Mark Holliday, Computer Science, coordinator for the Computer Education Endorsement program for teacher educators, College of Arts and Sciences, also came by to check out the scene in preparation for his students and local chapter members of ACM joining these crews on the next NetDays, November 9 and November 16. | You too can help. Sign up to volunteer to help out on November 9 and November 16 for the next sets of school wiring projects, NetDay96 part II and part III. If you cannot donate your time, donate money for wiring kits to Peggy Wike, Jackson County Schools, 586-2311 ext. 226 | |
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