Seventh and eighth-grade students at Pomona Middle School will be on the cutting edge of education technology this fall.

Using a state grant, the district purchased 600 HP Chromebooks for students and teachers to use. The grant will also pay for Wi-Fi and other technologies in the building.

An educational consulting firm helped the East Ramapo School District obtain the grant. "It's going to allow the students to be able to collaborate with each other on projects. It will allow the teachers to provide more enrichment materials, and it's going to be a vehicle that's going to engage the students," says Wellcore Executive Director Susan Maher.

While the computers and infrastructure are being set up now, the students won't actually begin using them until mid-October.