Schools seeking donations in New York State

Albamy

Seeking Pentium 4 (or better) PCs. No Macs please. If you can help, please e-mail Edward Winchester or call 518-472-6425

Brooklyn

Brooklyn International High School - Mr. Fredrick Wambolt, English Teacher, writes: We are a team of 4 teachers who teach 90 11th graders at Brooklyn International High School, a public high school for recent immigrant students (90% of our students qualify for free lunch). As the population of the school has grown, desktops have been removed from our classrooms to provide enough computers in the shared computer lab. Competition for lab time has also increased greatly with the increase in population. Our ultimate goal is to have 3 or 4 Macs (G4 or G5) desktop computers in each of our 4 classrooms. A printer would help greatly as well. Thank you.

If you can help, please email Mr. Wambolt or phone 718-643-9315. The school is located at 49 Flatbush Avenue Extension in Brooklyn.

Public School 216 - The Arturo Toscanini School - Brooklyn, NY

David Mittelman, Computer Teacher and Technical Coordinator, writes: I am planning to establish a laptop loaner program for fifth grade students without access to computers at home. Students without computer resources at home are at a disadvantage.

The New York City School system has an ambitious technology program in place for students to use computers in the school. There is no city program to allow laptop loans to these students in the elementary school. I would like to have such a program for our disadvantaged fifth graders.

I would like to have 1-10 Laptops - HP , Dell Sony, Toshiba or any manufacturer in good working order - seeking Pentium laptops with 1.6 Ghz processors or better.

If you can help, please e-mail Mr. Mittelman, or call (718) 645-2862. The school is located at 350 Avenue X in Brooklyn, New York.

Bronx

New Covenant Christian School - Charlene Jackson writes: We are a not-for-profit institution, who have carried out this mission for the past twenty-three years with a great measure of success. However, as the challenges of technology increases, we must respond for the benefit of our student population. Our school must give the best, given that in our community students must not just average but be above to face the challenges of being better in order to maximize the opportunity. We are, therefore upgrading our educational program with computer studies being a part of our curriculum.

Seeking Pentium IV, or better, PC desktop or laptop computers, printers, scanners, and digital cameras. If you can help, please email Ms. Jackson or phone Tel: 718.328.6072 x 100 Fax: 718.620.2040

New York City

Eleanor Roosevelt Intermediate School IS 143(M), in New York City. Ms. Gioya DeSouza-Fennelly writes: We are an inner city school, in Washington Heights, New York City. 100% of our students are Latino and qualify for free lunch. Our school has been in corrective action for 11 years because more than 33% of our students are new arrivals that are mandated to take the English state exam. Our school is situated on I95, which puts us in one of the most highly polluted locations in the country, which is manifested with a very high occurrence of asthma and obesity.

Seeking desktop and laptop PCs (Pentium four, or better) and G4 and G5 Macintosh, printers, keyboards, mice, etc. If you can help, please email Ms. DeSouza-Fennelly or phone 212-927-7739

Greenburgh Academy (Greenburgh-North Castle UFSD) is part of the Greenburgh-North Castle UFSD, a special act school district servicing approximately 300 emotionally disturbed, learning disabled, and other special education classified students from the five boroughs of New York City and Westchester County. Greenburgh Academy, located in Yonkers, New York, has a population of 175 at-risk students (ages 12-21) with an array of remedial needs. The student population consists of children from low socioeconomic backgrounds; over 95% of the student body is eligible for free lunch and over 90% receive public assistance. The school's ethnicity is as follows: 60% Hispanic, 30% African American, 8% Caucasian, and 2% Asian. 100% of our pupils are classified as Title I students. These factors come together and place our children at a huge disadvantage, but Greenburgh Academy is committed to providing these students with a rigorous academic and therapeutic program.

Seeking Pentium 4, or better, PCs as well as printers, keyboards, scanners, web cameras, smartBoards and LCD Projectors. If you can help, please email Ms. Tiffany Nagorny, LCSW or phone 914-964-5496 x101

Dr C. R. Johnson Christian Academy - NYC

Florrie K. Allen, Principal, writes: We have a great deal of software but not enough P.C.'s in the classrooms. We have 10 classrooms and would like to have at least 3 per classrooms - seeking Pentium 4, or better, PCs. If you can help, please e-mail or phone 718 857-4489

MS 322 - Sarah Milby, school grant writer and 8th grade science teacher, writes: My school, MS322, is an under-resourced middle school (6th through 8th grade) located in Washington Heights, NYC. Most of our students have come from the Dominican Republic, are English language learners, and eighty percent qualify for free lunch. Furthermore, many of the students are special education and come from broken homes as many parents live in another country or work multiple jobs to support their new lives in the United States. Yet, even with the odds stacked against them, our students are energetic, enthusiastic, insightful, and intelligent young teenagers.

Due to limited funding and space, our school does not have enough resources and classrooms to give these students the academic learning environment they deserve. I am trying to bring in more technology equipment (laptops, LCD projectors, SmartBoards, a copy machine, to name a few things) that would help my students learn. Currently, my school only has 30 broken laptops for the 600 students in attendance, one copy machine for the 30 teachers, and 3 LCD projectors that the teachers put in money to buy. The current environment and inability to access computers is setting them up to fail in highschool, college, and beyond, when their comfort with technology (for example using Microsoft Office and researching online) determines success. This is a great opportunity for you to make a difference. Your assistance in acquiring more technology equipment (laptops, LCD projectors, SmartBoards, copy machines, computers, etc) would mean so much to us at MS322. Seeking Pentium IV, or better and G4/G5 Macs. If you can help, please email Ms. Milby or phone 302-530-5040. Thank you for your time.

Staten Island

PS 48 - is a not-for-profit school run by the NYC Board of Education. Jayne Pearlmutter Technology Teacher, writes: Technology On the MOOOve (COW"S... Computers On Wheels) Due to the expanding population at PS 48 the computer lab will be closed and converted into a classroom in September of 2008. Technology will be taught on laptops that will be rolled into the classrooms. Unfortunately, there are not enough laptops in the school building to accommodate the 3 floors of classrooms. My goal is to acquire 75 Windows or Mac laptops under 3 years old. PS 48 is located in Staten Island. Any donations of working laptops will be greatly appreciated. Pentium IV (or better) PCs or G4/G5 Macs. If you can help, please email Ms. Pearlmutter or phone - Summer Contact # (718) 981-7327 and September Contact # (718) 447-8323 Thank you!!

New Windsor

Temple Hill Academy - New Windsor, NY

Mr. Byrne, Academic Specialist writes:

I teach the health program in a K-6 school, going K-8 over the next 2 years. I haveno classroom and must teach off of a cart. I also run several otherprograms and assemblies for various reasons/occasions. I cannot rely on theclassroom teacher'scomputer being available when I am there, and laptops are scarce.I am seeking a laptop with Windows and DVD/ CD capability. I am also in need of an LCD projector. Over the course of the school year I teach all 1100 students in our school. E-mail Mr. Byrne or call 845-568-6480