Lake Pend Oreille School District in Sandpoint, Idaho has always had a “Yes You Can!” attitude. Since the dawn of the World Wide Web, the district’s teachers have held cupcake bake sales to help fund dial-up Internet service for the district’s remote, rural schools and dug ditches for lines connecting one school’s network to another. Technology funding remains a challenge for the school district, but thanks to Intermax Networks the district’s days of dial up Internet and isolation from the world outside on the web are chalk dust. Even schools in the farthest reaches of the district – geographically one of the largest school districts in Idaho – have blazing fast Internet access. Intermax Networks has brought big-time bandwidth to the district with the help of E-Rate, a federal program providing discounted Internet access and technology for rural school districts with a high rate of poverty.More than half of the 3,700 students in the Lake Pend Oreille School District fall under federal poverty guidelines.“Rura ...
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"COEUR d'ALENE -- The Silver Lake Mall was once again the scene of strange science as North Idaho students in grades 1-8 demonstrated their inventive minds in the 20th year of Invent Idaho.
About 100 kids, some partnering, showed 92 examples of their ideas for new or improved products.
"Some are really high quality," said Beth Brubaker, a Lakeland gifted and talented teacher and co-founder of Invent Idaho. "That was especially so in the area of research, to see if it had already been invented."
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