AYSTA5G: What is a computer lab?

[MarleysGh0st]

Here's an article about one of the kids who got his question used on 5th Grader as one of the "Classroom Club Challenge" questions.

http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/articl ... /804240630

Daniel became a bit of a hero as well after winning a $1,000 Best Buy gift certificate for the school with the selected question, students and staff said. The show advertises that winners get a "computer lab," but school officials were happy enough with their prize.

"We didn't expect to get anything, so to be able to get that and get some nice things for the school is great," Spalthoff said, adding that Pine Brook's television studio likely will be upgraded with new cameras or other equipment.

Yes, anything is nice, Vice Principal Spalthoff, particularly since your student did the work on his own, but the school benefits. But why can't the show simply say you get a $1,000 gift certificate, instead of a "computer lab"?

[themanintheseersuckersuit]

Here's an article about one of the kids who got his question used on 5th Grader as one of the "Classroom Club Challenge" questions.

http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/articl ... /804240630

Daniel became a bit of a hero as well after winning a $1,000 Best Buy gift certificate for the school with the selected question, students and staff said. The show advertises that winners get a "computer lab," but school officials were happy enough with their prize.

"We didn't expect to get anything, so to be able to get that and get some nice things for the school is great," Spalthoff said, adding that Pine Brook's television studio likely will be upgraded with new cameras or other equipment.

Yes, anything is nice, Vice Principal Spalthoff, particularly since your student did the work on his own, but the school benefits. But why can't the show simply say you get a $1,000 gift certificate, instead of a "computer lab"?

Hey, at least it wasn't 100 a year for ten years.

[PlacentiaSoccerMom]

Or a Lab named Computer.

[Estonut]

But why can't the show simply say you get a $1,000 gift certificate, instead of a "computer lab"?

I think that may be a Best Buy thing. There's a website to enter code numbers for purchased Coca Cola products that has tons of prizes you can enter to win. They'll often say something like "digital media package" with a picture of a digicam and a handycam, but then the small print says it's a $1,000 BB gift certificate. I've see the same thing there for computer and home entertainment prizes, too.

[MarleysGh0st]

But why can't the show simply say you get a $1,000 gift certificate, instead of a "computer lab"?

I think that may be a Best Buy thing. There's a website to enter code numbers for purchased Coca Cola products that has tons of prizes you can enter to win. They'll often say something like "digital media package" with a picture of a digicam and a handycam, but then the small print says it's a $1,000 BB gift certificate. I've see the same thing there for computer and home entertainment prizes, too.

Maybe, in which case T5GPTB are simply being complicit in the deception Best Buy proposed. But when you're talking about a school getting a "computer lab", it's far easier for a viewer to exaggerate the picture of what that might comprise to be "an entire room full of equipment" rather than "one computer, maybe with a few extra bits".