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Lake Stevens Middle School students receive new, state-of-the-art computer lab

Lab paid for by Ray of Hope Foundation, Tutoring America

Madeleine Wright, Reporter

Tags: Miami-Dade, Local, Education

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – Middle school students in Miami Gardens received a big upgrade to their classroom experience this week.

On Tuesday, Lake Stevens Middle School debuted a brand new, state-of-the-art computer lab.

Students now have 33 new computers they can use for homework, tests and other activities. The chairs, desks and wallpaper are also new.

Two nonprofits, Ray of Hope Foundation and Tutoring America, teamed up to pay about $50,000 for the computer lab.

Students say it's a big difference from the old computer lab.

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Miami-Dade County Public Schools celebrated a brand new computer lab at Lake Stevens Middle School in Miami Gardens with a ribbon cutting Tuesday.
The state-of-the-art computer lab includes 33 new computers. The wallpaper, desks and chairs are also new.
School administrators informed students about the new computer lab during an assembly. Two nonprofits, the Ray of Hope Foundation and Tutoring America, each paid for half of the $40,000 to $50,000 cost, officials said.
Former Miami Heat player Ray Allen says it was important that he gave back to his community by donating the lab. Tutoring America officials say the computer lab will help close the education gap so low-income students can reach their full potential.
The school was in "desperate need" of the upgrade, officials said. The old computer lab had fewer computers and they were outdated.
Ray of Hope is also planning to donate 30-33 new computers to another school, Fienberg-Fisher K-8 Center in Miami Beach, sometime in September.

Miami-Dade County Public Schools celebrated a brand new computer lab at Lake Stevens Middle School in Miami Gardens with a ribbon cutting Tuesday.

"It was dirty," eighth-grader Kenitra Wright said. "The computers was, like, here. There was nothing in the middle but, like, tables -- computers over there. It's like computers everywhere."

Fienberg-Fisher K-8 Center in Miami Beach is the next school in Miami-Dade County that will soon get a new computer lab.

The school will get about 30 to 33 new computers in September.

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