TRENTON – A Korean company setting up to build wind turbines in Trenton has donated 170 pieces of computer equipment to the local school board.
Trenton DSME recently purchased new computers for the local plant and decided to donate its older computers to the Chignecto-Central Regional School Board to be used in Pictou County schools.
The company donated 65 hard drives, 90 monitors and 15 printers. The computers were loaded onto a flatbed Thursday by T. Fraser Cranes, which donated their time to transport the electronics, and taken to board’s head office in Truro where IT staff will decide which computers can be refurbished and put into the school system.
Lynn MacLean, supervisors the board’s Celtic region, said Trenton elementary and middle schools will be the first to receive the new computers and the rest will be placed in local schools based on need.
She said the board likes to have at least four computers in every classroom.
“This is a wonderful donation,” she said.
Brad Murray, communications manager for DSME Trenton, said some of the computers are only two or three years old and haven’t been used since the rail car plant shut down.
