Rachel Casper, Sports Editor

This school year, Chromebooks were introduced to the learning environment at Penn-Trafford High School and the district is planning changes to make their use more beneficial for the upcoming school year. This past school year was the first year of a 1:1 student to device ratio.

    Jason Caruso, technology coordinator, said that this year went well overall. They were kept in decent condition for a majority of the year. A common trend students do is put stickers directly on their device. This can decrease the quality of the chromebooks for the upcoming freshmen.

    “If you are an incoming freshman, do you want to get a chromebook with someone else’s stickers all over them?” Caruso said.

    A new change for the underclassmen is that they will have the opportunity to keep a Chromebook in their possession for the summer.

    Currently on FamilyID, there is an opening for Chromebooks for the 2018-2019 school year. If the form is completed before the end of the current school year and the payment is complete, the student will be eligible to keep the chromebook over the summertime.

    Junior Danielle Ochendowski said the Chromebooks were a benefit for the school year. Ochendowski plans on taking advantage of the new process of signing out the device during the summer.

    “Using the Chromebooks this year has definitely helped me get things like papers and assignments in Google Classroom easier than before,” she said.

    As of now, signing out the Chromebooks for the summer is the only change P-T will make in their policy.