North Judson-San Pierre School Board Approves WiFi Upgrades, Locker Purchase

Posted on March 3, 2017
Author Michael Gallenberger, WKVI

The North Judson-San Pierre School Corporation will be getting a bit of a technology upgrade, as well as some new lockers.

Last week, the school board gave permission to proceed with a WiFi project. Superintendent Annette Zupin says the corporation currently has enough bandwidth to handle new devices, but more access points are needed. “Right now, if we bring new devices over to the elementary school, the access points don’t allow for those devices to be used,” she explains. “So we’ll improve that, and then at some point we’ll be able to make a decision as to how we want to move forward with devices for our students.”

Last week, the school board also approved the purchase of new lockers for the junior/senior high school. Zupin says the current lockers are original to the building. “They are getting old, getting more difficult to fix,” she says. “And the main thing, though, is that they do not fit the backpacks, and so that’s a safety issue. Right now, our students are using backpacks, and those should go in lockers but they don’t fit. So we will be getting new lockers this summer.”

Zupin says the two projects will be funded with money from last year’s general obligation bond issue.