Technology
There are over 500 computers at Washington-Lee connected to its local area network which provides access to educational software, administrative data bases, and the Internet. Additionally all classrooms have SMART board interactive whiteboards. The school currently has 7 computer labs, with one in its library and an additional cyber café with computers. There are also multiple mobile laptop labs and several mini labs in math, business and publications. All science classrooms are equipped with 6 or more student computer stations. Washington-Lee has a student-operated broadcasting studio which is used to produce the morning announcements to all classrooms on its closed circuit television channel. A technologically advanced distance-learning classroom in the school allows classes conducted in that room to be viewed by students in other schools and by individuals watching from their homes.
The school's CNC/digital fabrication lab has been updated to meet the latest standards in digital fabrication technology. The lab has CAD and 3d modeling software, 3d printers, a laser cutter, vacuum former, 3-axis CNC milling machine, and standard wood shop equipment. The lab provides students with interests in architecture, industrial design, and engineering a complete set of digital and analog design tools for form-making.
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Famous quotes containing the word technology:
“If the technology cannot shoulder the entire burden of strategic change, it nevertheless can set into motion a series of dynamics that present an important challenge to imperative control and the industrial division of labor. The more blurred the distinction between what workers know and what managers know, the more fragile and pointless any traditional relationships of domination and subordination between them will become.”
—Shoshana Zuboff (b. 1951)
“Primitive peoples tried to annul death by portraying the human body—we do it by finding substitutes for the human body. Technology instead of mysticism!”
—Max Frisch (1911–1991)
“If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is gambling in human lives.”
—Freeman Dyson (b. 1923)