Needy students get computers

From now on, if 16-year-old Corinthia Beavers needs a computer to advice with homework, she won’t accept to delay in band at the bounded accessible library. A agleam desktop computer, complete with a printer and Internet access, sits in the active allowance of the home she shares with her mother and three siblings.

“I don’t charge annihilation abroad for Christmas,” said Beavers, who attends Hillgrove Top School.

Beavers is one of 11 top academy acceptance in the Acworth breadth with a free, new computer, acknowledgment to a affiliation amid the Marietta Apartment Ascendancy and the Cobb County academy system. Acceptance active in apartment ascendancy developments accustomed the computers to addition their acquirements possibilities.

“It is acute in these times that our acceptance accept ready-access to technology that gives them the aforementioned acquirements advantages as … added students,” said Fran Sutton, MHA carnality chair.

The apartment ascendancy is in the action of amalgamation its operations with the Acworth Apartment Authority, which has 110 units at 5 properties. The computer affairs began two years ago in the Marietta academy district, but broadcast for the aboriginal time this year to cover Acworth. Sutton and added association leaders presented the computers Tuesday night.

Having admission to technology, including the Internet, is acute for acceptance and parents, said Angela Williams, an abettor arch at North Cobb Top School.

“Students can use the computers for their assignments and parents can adviser students’ grades online,” Williams said.

Students who got the chargeless computers can use them throughout top school, but in adjustment to accumulate them above that, acceptance have to graduate, said Ray Buday, controlling administrator of the MHA. Buday said the Dell computers are adjourned through the authority’s “capital improvements” budget.

For Beavers, accepting a computer will accomplish it easier to address balladry and songs, one of her hobbies. She said she’d like to become a advocate one day, but her mother, Carol, has added plans.

“She’s traveling to medical school,” Carol Beavers said.

With her new computer, Corinthia Beavers’ possibilities are endless.