The Enumclaw School District has completed the replacement of outdated Promethean boards and projectors in classrooms at Enumclaw Middle School, Southwood Elementary School and Westwood Elementary School, thanks to funding provided by the community through the Technology Levy.
The Promethean boards, purchased through a technology levy and installed in 2012, reached their end of support in March of 2022. The replacement system includes a new whiteboard and an interactive projector. These replacements provide a bigger, brighter, higher-resolution display allowing students to see content more easily, touch capabilities allowing teachers and students to interact with content digitally, and to annotate over anything projected on the board. The new projectors don't use bulbs, they use a laser optical source with a 20,000-hour lifespan, which is just shy of 14 school years (180 days at 8 hours a day).
The next round of installations will be at Sunrise Elementary, Black Diamond Elementary and Thunder Mountain Middle School.