Students of migrant families get gift of laptops from ECU library
By Patrick Holmes
Lenoir County Public Schools
For students of migrant farmworker families in Lenoir County Public Schools, it might seem that Santa Claus has relocated to Laupus Library at East Carolina University.
A $75,000 federal grant awarded to the ECU library brought early Christmas presents of Lenovo laptops and accessories to 45 of these LCPS students. In all, the grant provided 100 laptops to students in eastern North Carolina, including 16 in Greene County, whose Migrant Education Program is administered by LCPS.
“Each laptop comes with a backpack, headphone/microphone headset and two USB drives, one loaded with the WiderNet ‘Pocket Library,’ a customized pocket library of health information sources,” said Laupus Library Associate Director Roger Russell, who helped coordinator the project.