ERIK SANZENBACH / L’Observateur / October 18, 1999

RESERVE – Riverside Academy is moving into the new century with a vengeance. Last week the school started putting together a state-of-the-art computer system so that all the students will be able to log on to the new technology that is so vital in today’s education.

Lennen Madere, a member of the Riverside Academy board, and the director of the school’s communications and computer development, said the school took delivery on 40 new computers on Wednesday.

Thirty of the computers will be used in the classrooms from first to eighth grades. The remaining 10 will be used by the administration,faculty and the athletic department.

“We’re trying to get up-to-date and get the school modernized, ” said Madere. “This will really help the students.”All the computers will be networked together, and they will all be internet-capable.

Bridget Sinibaldi, assistant principal, watched the unloading of the computers with excitement.

“This will help the teachers to supplement their instruction,” she said, “and the students can do research on the internet.”Sinibaldi said the computers, from Advanced Computer Technologies of St.

John Parish, are very fast, 500 MHZ, and will be supplied with 17-inch monitors.

The school is already wired for networking and the internet, and all the administration has to do is plug the computers in.

“Our goal,” said Sinibaldi, “is to have a computer in every classroom as well as a computer lab.”Riverside has one computer lab for the high school and eventually hopes to have labs for both the middle and elementary schools.

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