
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, March 12, 1992                   TAG: 9203120461
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: S2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Wendi Gibson
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

GARDEN CITY SCHOOL WINS COMPUTER LAB

Garden City Elementary School has won Wal-Mart's Class Award - an IBM Personal Science Laboratory, which includes the computer, software and several attachments that will enable students to conduct scientific laboratory experiments and save the results.

Wal-Mart and 13 companies whose products the retail store sells sponsored the contest last year. Customers who purchased these products were asked to filled out cards that designated a school to receive the computer lab.

Garden City's principal, Gary Galbreath, said his school's PTA "stacked the deck" by visiting Wal-Mart and filling out lots of cards.

The computer runs on PSL Explorer Software, a program that allows students and teachers to run sample experiments; gather data from light, pH and temperature probes that can be attached to the computer; scale and plot data; and analyze, store and retrieve the data.

The system is worth $4,000 to $5,000.

by CNB