Through The Digital Advantage — part of Project Graduation — the Sunnyside Unified School District is using laptop computers as an incentive to decrease dropouts and increase the district’s graduation rate.

View Digital Advantage Annual Report 2008-09

View Digital Advantage Executive Summary

Watch SUSD's Digital Advantage Celebration

Watch Cox Charities' Digital Advantage Celebration segment

Watch KUAT's segment on the Digital Advantage

View Eye on the Future presentation

This school year, SUSD gave laptops to 505 ninth-grade students who achieved the Four A’s at the end of the first semester:

• Academics: 2.5 or higher grade point average
• Attendance: 95% or better attendance rate – no more than four excused absences, no unexcused, and must attend on the first day of school
• Activity: regular participation in a school-sponsored extracurricular activity
• Attitude: no out-of-school suspensions

Digital Advantage Scholars
The Digital Advantage laptop initiative has expanded to include outstanding students in the 10th, 11th & 12th grade. In the 2008-09 school year, 339 students received free laptops for achieving the following criteria:

• Academics – 3.5 GPA or higher
• Attendance – 95%, excused only
• Activity – participation in extracurricular
• Attitude – no out-of-school suspensions

 
Thank you to all the Digital Advantage sponsors and in-kind contributors for making this program possible.

If you would like to learn more about becoming a business partner or about the benefits of being a sponsor, please contact Brandon Protas at 520.545-2124.