With the recent expansion of the school, the addition of the Apple room in the 500 hallway allows students to work with advanced technology. MST coordinator Emilie Baxter said the Apple room is a place for the students to work and where students can be creative.
“The Apple room is a new room that is specifically for MST students,” Baxter said. “It’s more free range for them to work without the pressure of being in a classroom.”
The room also allows students to use technology that some colleges do not have.
“It’s giving our students a huge advantage when they’re going into college, because they’ve already worked on these amazing pieces of technology,” Baxter said.
The Apple room is equipped with three SMART Board TVs students can use as long as they have an Apple product or a laptop with them.
“You just plug [the SMART Board TVs] into the laptop like you do a normal SMART board, and it projects what you’re doing,” Baxter said.
The Apple room features different leveled tables and chairs that add more special touches and allow for more variety that students can take advantage of.
“We were all completely blown away and thought it was just the coolest thing because you have the different leveled tables in there,” Baxter said. “I think all the teachers are just jealous that they didn’t have a cool [room] like that to hang out in.”
Chemistry teacher Asha Phillips has used the Apple room, and her first thought was that the room was really cool and amazing because of the new technology.
“I had a lot of fun using the new SMART [Board] TVs,” Phillips said.
Phillips says that the Apple room allows students to integrate and use the newest and best technology to their advantage. Students interact with each other and work as a team on their assignment and projects.
“I like the Apple room, because it gives [the students] an opportunity to use the SMART [Board] TVs and to interact with them as [they are] working on projects,” Phillips said.
Because the new Apple room was built over the past few months, Baxter hopes that the students will use the room carefully.
“I just really hope that the students get out of it what its purpose is [and] that the students respect it and abide by the rules so that we can keep it there for a long time,” Baxter said.