Backpack? Check.
Books? Check
Lunch money? Check.
Brand new MacBook Air? For seniors returning to class today at Eden Prairie High School, the answer is "yes."
By the end of the week, Eden Prairie Schools will have distributed almost 3,000 new laptops, one leased for every high school student. Seniors and some juniors received theirs today.
School technology experts say the West Metro school district is the largest in the state to issue MacBook Airs on an individual student basis. Many schools are utilizing iPads instead.
But district officials felt that the MacBooks were a better choice for their high school students.
"For this age group, we really thought the laptops were a better tool to create," said Bob Noyed, the district's spokesman, adding the MacBooks were great computers to build presentations and projects.