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__General Description of Students:__

 * Students participating in this technology day are, on average, between the age of eight and ten.
 * Students are from "Simulation City", a Midwestern suburban area with approximately six-thousand citizens whose median income is $40,000.

__Description of the School:__
 * Simulation School is a public school member of Simulation City School District and serves a population of three-hundred students.
 * The District employs two hundred instructional personnel and according to recent valuations spent $9,000 per student.

__General Description of the Classroom:__
 * The technology day will take place in the school’s cafeteria.
 * This space is approximately five-hundred square feet.
 * Linoleum flooring and wall space rich with electrical outlets make this room the best location for the technology day.
 * centralized location will simplify organization and navigation for participants, students and outside visitors.

__General Description of Computer Facilities in the School:__
 * Simulation School has a limited technology budget.
 * The school possesses thirty PC computers for student use and places them in a computer laboratory.
 * Each classroom features two additional PCs; however, one is exclusively dedicated to classroom management functions.
 * Of the additional PC located in classrooms each teacher is responsible for maintaining the health of the PC and as a result it cannot be assumed that these classroom PCs are in working order.