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Replacement Adairsville Middle School To Open

Every classroom will have an Epson BrightLink 475Wi, high-performance, network-ready projectors and interactive pens.

The new Adairsville Middle School set to open Aug. 7 will have projectors and interactive pens in each classroom. 

"Besides being several decades old, tornados during 2011 also took a toll on the previous middle school," spokesman Lauren Burke said in an email. "When the new middle school opens, every classroom will have an Epson BrightLink 475Wi

"These high-performance, network-ready projectors and interactive pens incorporate interactive functionality into one machine without the constraints or expense of an interactive whiteboard."

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Math, science and language arts, she said, are just a few of the subjects in which Bartow students benefit from the annotation capabilities of the BrightLink 475Wi "because students can reinforce content at the board, rather than in their chair." 

Mark Bagnell, Bartow Schools director of technology said of the new projectors, “when put into the hands of the right educator, crazy and fun things are happening.”

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Bartow County Schools educate more than 14,000 students. 

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