GED students receive laptop computers from state grant

Ten GED students will receive laptop computers Friday from state grant

Ten General Education Degree (GED) graduates will receive a laptop computer thanks to a grant from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.

The laptop presentation is set for 1 p.m. Friday, Sept. 4, in the Learning Center at Kilgore College-Longview.

"There were several qualifications that the students had to meet," said Bobbie McGee Benson, director of Adult Education at KC. "These students were engaged in an intensive summer program which focused on five areas believed to be valuable to GED diploma holders."

The students, graduates of the KC GED program, qualified to receive the computers partly because they attended the monthlong summer program geared to help them with strategies to succeed in college coursework and basic computer literacy.

Upon completion of the course, the students had to enroll in at least one college class to qualify.