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Breakthrough Summer will end tomorrow for 58 Rappahannock students going into fifth through ninth grades. By the end of the two-week summer camp held at the high school, they should know the computer keyboard and how to use computers for word processing and creating graphic designs and multimedia presentations.
The students have been divided into four groups. Each day each group has had sessions on keyboarding (using computer keyboards for touch typing,) word processing, creative writing, and technology (graphic and multimedia applications).
By the end of the first week they had been Introduced to all the letters on the keyboard, they had picked from their many suggestions for a design for a camp T-shirt, and they were working on stories and art for a camp magazine.
High school and elementary teachers have been working with the students. Mike Tupper has been teaching keyboarding. Helen LaCava has been teaching word processing, how to insert, delete, and move blocks oftype around and how to select from different styles and sizes of type. Amy Wolf has been teaching creative writing, and Brion Patterson and Elizabeth Scott have been teaching technology. Fourth grade teacher Lelo Wolfe has been helping with various groups since the school system hopes to be able to bring the program to fourth graders starting next year.
They have been helped out by several high schoolers working with each group and giving one-on-one help to the younger students.
Mr. Tupper said one of the main reasons for the program is to teach touch typing to younger children. With so many using computers at home and in school “there is concern in the business education community that they are developing habits us-, ing a hunt and peck system that will
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