Margaret Jones Public Library recently received a generous grant from Mitchell EMC’s Operation Round Up Program.
Through Operation Round Up, your monthly electric bill is “rounded” up to the next dollar. The extra change goes to a fund administered by the Mitchell Electric Charitable Fund, a nonprofit organization, to help worthwhile projects and programs in our communities. Your donation is tax deductible. Mitchell EMC absorbs any administrative costs, so 100 percent of your donation goes to make life better for area citizens. More than $200,000 has been returned to our communities.
Any non-profit organization in Baker, Dougherty, Mitchell and Worth counties is eligible to apply. Organizational applicants must complete an application and two excel spreadsheets. A committee of advisors meets quarterly to review the applications and make disbursements.
The purpose of the grant is to help younger children get their hands on the latest touch-screen computer technology focusing on early learning. Two AWE Early Literacy Stations are the latest additions to Margaret Jones Public Library. The stations contain more than 60 educational software titles with colorful and engaging graphics, spanning seven topics all geared toward drawing young kids to learning.
Leigh Wiley, Library Director said they received two $3,100 Acer touch-screen models. “The children are really enjoying them already. The touch screens are already full of little fingerprints.”
The all-in-one touch screens are timed for 60-minute sessions, with a colorful screen containing symbols that kids push to begin lessons on math, reading, science, history and geography, among other topics. Even the keyboards are color-coded, so the little ones getting their hands on them for the first time can tell their vowels from consonants, where the numbers are and the function keys.
