As the only nationally STEM certified school in New Mexico, we have placed the training of our teachers to be the best STEM teachers possible and also updating technology outside of the classrooms at the forefront of our “Future is Now” campaign. To do so, we need to provide current technology to our teachers and staff for them to access all aspects of our curriculums and use them efficiently. The current classroom desktops that are used by our teachers are on average eight years old. Given the speed of technology updates in our world today, those computers were obsolete after three years. The current desktops hinder the capabilities of our teachers, thus negatively impacting the education they can provide to their students.
As the only nationally STEM certified school in New Holy Ghost has secured a $25,000 grant from the Catholic Foundation and $5,000 of other donations, which has brought us to 20 of the 24 laptops we need to purchase. To finish the entire purchase, we are looking to purchase 4 more laptops at $1,500 each ($6,000) and 3 desktops for the front office at $1,500 each ($4,500) for a total campaign goal of $10,500.