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Target Audience: Grades 3-5
__General Description of Students:__ Students participating in this technology day are, on average, between the age of eight and ten. Students are from “Simulation City”, a Midwestern suburban area with approximately six-thousand citizens whose median income is $40,000.

__General Description of the School:__ Simulation School is a public school member of Simulation City School District and serves a population of three-hundred students. The District employs two hundred instructional personnel and according to recent valuations spent $9,000 per student.

__General Description of the Classroom:__ The technology day will take place in the school’s cafeteria. This space is approximately five-hundred square feet. Linoleum flooring and wall space rich with electrical outlets make this room the best location for the technology day. In addition, the centralized location will simplify organization and navigation for participants, students and outside visitors.

__General Description of Computer Facilities in the School:__ Simulation School has a limited technology budget. The school possesses thirty PC computers for student use and places them in a computer laboratory. Each classroom features two additional PCs; however, one is exclusively dedicated to classroom management functions. Of the additional PC located in classrooms each teacher is responsible for maintaining the health of the PC and as a result it cannot be assumed that these classroom PCs are in working order.