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A high-tech roll reversal - Alex Lyda , SanDiego Union-Tribune

Tucked away in a storage room at Emerald Middle School is the teacher's helper of Todayland. With a top speed of 3 mph, "Mobilan One" holds 30 laptops in its belly and roves from class to class with its payload, turning any room into a computer lab. The mobile unit was bought with a $125,000 grant from Hewlett-Packard, one of nine grants the computer company bestowed on schools in Texas, Kentucky, New York, Massachusetts, South Carolina and – in this one case – California. The grant is part of Hewlett-Packard's $1.7 million high-achieving schools program, designed to reward schools in lower-income technology-deficient communities for academic success.

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