FIE grant to fund new technology

A potential $250,000 grant will give Newton High School the new technology

District grant writer Barbara Burns, along with superintendent John Morton, principal Ken Rickard, career and technical program direc­tor Joannelle Lucas, librarian Ronda Limon, history teach Greg Lehr, met today to allo­cate the Fun for the Improve­ment of Education (FIE) grant for Newton’s media center.

“I visited with Dr. Morton and we decided Newton High School had a gap in technol­ogy,” Burns said, “and that this would be an opportunity to fill in that gap.”

Last June, Burns spent three weeks at the high school consulting with Lucas and librarian Ronda Limon, dis­cussing how to centralize new technology at the high school.

“We wanted technology that was housed somewhere so that it was always accountable, but accessible to individual teachers to bring into their classroom or come into the media center and use,” Burns said. “I wrote (the grant) in a way so that it wasn’t toys but that this is practical technol­ogy.”

The grant is offered through all federal congress­men and senators. Newton’s grant is coming through Senator Todd Tiahrt. Burns said the focus of the grant’s function is to ensure students are “college and vocationally prepared technology-wise.”

“I want to make sure our small business management program, the laser-engraver program and some of those get additional technology,” Burns said. “Perhaps our sci­ence classes need additional software and technology. I’m very supportive of the Proj­ect Lead The Way, the pre-engineering program, and we want to make sure they have a lab so those students can succeed.”

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