Incredibly cute fifth-graders are getting free iPads from AppleFiled under: Education
Thirteen fifth-graders at the Watergrass Elementary School in Wesley Chapel, Florida are going to be very happy, and Apple just might get a new ad campaign out of it.
Last month, according to the St. Petersburg Times, an iPad was brought into Susan Fischer's fifth grade class for the kids to take a look. They were entranced with it. Andy Dunn, a school district official who needed some pictures for a presentation on kids using technology in the classroom, took some snaps of the event.
Brandon Maldonado, the instructional technology specialist for the school, saw the pictures and was also charmed. He sent some of them to Andrea Bart, the local Apple sales rep, who liked them so much she sent them to her superiors. Eventually they wound up on the desk of John Couch, Apple's VP of education, who was so enthused he said he was interested in using them for an Apple ad campaign.
Although the school won't be paid for the pictures, the thirteen kids involved will all be getting new iPads mailed to their homes and may in the future be asked appear in Apple advertising geared to the education market. This sounds like a win-win situation for everyone... except maybe the other kids in Susan Fischer's class who weren't lucky enough to be in the pictures.
I hope, if the ad campaign actually happens, the rest of the class can get involved and it'll be iPads for everybody.
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