Students take the new computers at Morse Marshall for a test drive.

This is what the space looked like before the makeover began in November.

GE Healthcare makes over an MPS computer lab

Published Jan. 28, 2011 at 2:10 p.m.

In a collaboration separate from the recent $20.4 million GE Foundation grant to Milwaukee Public Schools, GE Healthcare and CompuCom unveiled a new computer / media lab at MPS' Samuel Morse / John Marshall School for the Gifted and Talented.

The project got underway in November and completely made over a school space into a shiny new computer lab boasting 45 computers donated by CompuCom.

The lab was officially opened on Wednesday.

GE Healthcare has partnered with MPS since 1947, according to district superintendent Dr. Gregory Thornton.

Workers from GE Healthcare, some divisions of which are headquartered in the Milwaukee area, donated supplies and volunteered time to complete the work. Some funds were also donated for other equipment, like projectors.

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CarolV | Jan. 28, 2011 at 4:15 p.m. (report)

Nice! It would be great to see many more corporations stepping up in this way to take a more public and vested interest in creating the workforce of the future, and solving the MPS challenges that exist within MPS schools. I also know Rockwell Automation does a lot with Project Lead the Way and robotics programs in MPS schools which is wonderful! And other corporations that are engaged in MPS programs are great to hear about...please share more examples will you? I hope other corporations will take note if they are not yet publicly engaged in MPS, and adopt MPS schools, facility or program areas to help forge positive changes, even if naming labs, libraries, program areas, rooms, becomes part of their benefit! Its all about the kids, academic performance and environments created to learn at the highest level, right? I'd love to see more collaborative corporate funding, grant submissions and foundation involvement :)

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