The West Central Valley School District Office of Teaching and Learning announced they received 74 hotspots through the T-Mobile for Education grant program. 

Each hotspot comes with 100-gigabytes of data per year for five years.

Co-Superintendent Rusty Shockley hopes the impact will be significant for quarantined and distanced learners.

“It’s a huge piece because in rural Iowa, the biggest problem with doing online instruction is accessibility. There’s not a lot of fiber around in any of these counties we occupy, so they’ve got to have some type of wireless access. It’s huge for us.”

According to T-Mobile,100-gigabytes of data is enough for 140 hours of school videos, 320 hours of virtual learning, 5,000 hours of internet research and 200 hours of online college test prep.