Kennedy High School - Profiles Yearbook (Bloomington, MN)

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T om-Cat: wasn’t he that sinister M cartoon feline who a vvs got ■ J the shaft? — Wrong. It was a computerized filing system, designed to replace the card catalog, that was installed in the JFK Resource Center this year. And it was the only one of its kind in any Minnesota high school. The State Department of Education funded this and other high-tech projects for the Bloomington school system this year, making it one of 15 Technology Demonstration Sites in Minnesota. Don’t worry. That didn’t mean that Kennedy had become a major Russian war target. It simply meant that you used thousands of dollars' worth of hard- and soft-ware free of charge. Because the stare was using you — 1400 of you who took some type of computer course this year — to test these new programs. Programs like televising live Spanish TV shows in the classroom — received via satellite. That's something you shared with only one other high school nationwide! These advancements were enhanced when Bloomington Schools received hundreds of computers from Control Data in partial payment for Lincoln Center. Thanks to these recent additions in your classrooms, the technology revolution didn’t leave you in the chipsl Right: A choir show video tape, to be used as a KTAV cable program, ia easily edited by Laura Welsandt and Don Specht with Konnody'a computerised tape editor. Below: High-tech computer newly written graphici program graphics animation intrigues Dave produce a changing image on Shephord as he watches his the computer screen.

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Above: Technology eases Teresa Olson's task as aha adits her English paper on her Apple lie with a word processor. It makes writing English papers (un well, almost tun. Cantor Lelt: Another assignment (or Angie Culhano and Shannon Schouweiler poses no problems as they ease through their editing work on one of Kennedy's now Zenith 100 computers. Left: Using the library's new computerised card catalog system, juniors Kristin Mascotti, Molly Nowoll, Suo Andrus, and Kris Olson quickly find the research materials they nood. Oper ng 7