Hewlett-Packard donates equipment to Aims C.C.

GREELEY — Hewlett-Packard Co. (NASDAQ: HPQ) donated $110,000 in equipment to Aims Community College, creating a mobile classroom for math and computer-science students.

Aims was one of eight community colleges in the nation to receive the equipment as part of H-P’s mission to improve recruitment and retention of minority and female engineering and computer-science students.

The mobile classroom is a 600-pound motorized cart that holds 30 H-P notebook computers, and a color printer with copying, scanning and fax capabilities. H-P also donated five additional notebook computers for faculty members, as well as several software packages.

Centralized in the math and science area at the college, the cart can travel to 10 different classrooms. “Before this donation, if students needed to do computer work, they would have to go to the computer lab,´ said Aims spokeswoman Sharon Dunn. “Now the lab comes to them.”

Dunn said the gift would help Aims meet its own goals of improving the retention and transfer rates of minority and women students by 40 percent by 2004.

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