The Resource Center debuted a new laptop cart with 23 Lenovo computers this week to facilitate group work among students. Pictured are pre-freshmen Holden Hess, Egan Trahant, Connor Cuccia, and Louis Bercaw, who are working on a national parks project in Mr. Jay Combe’s geography class. Groups are playing the role of travel agencies, “pitching” the 8th-grade class on a visit to their assigned park (Banff, Grand Canyon, Olympic, Redwoods, Yellowstone, or Yosemite). Groups will ultimately give 15-minute presentations to the class outlining proposed three-day itineraries. The group with the highest rating from their peers will be awarded additional points on their overall grade. “The laptops are a game-changer for group work,” says Combe. “They allow the groups to spread out at a big table and multitask as they put their projects together.”