The Mac in the Art Room Project is a pilot program instituted in March 2005 and sponsored by Bank of America. Thirty-one New York City visual art teachers from across the city were chosen to receive an iMac G5 computer for their classroom, along with a Lexmark color laser printer, Canon digital still camera, Epson flatbed scanner, and InFocus projector. Teachers were selected for the project based on their range of experience with computer technology and previous success in the classroom, and then trained on Macintosh software at the Apple Store SoHo in April 2005. In August 2005, Mac in the Art Room Project Teachers were trained in Adobe Creative Suite software by digital diva Amy Beth McNeely. The training was a success—which was evident at the end-of-the-school-year meeting held at the Tweed Courthouse in June 2006. Teachers presented the work their students created with Mac in the Art Room Project equipment. The work ranged from digital photography and video to slideshows and a yearbook published in-house.

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