Catholic Schools—Computers and Networks

EMC's support of low income students is demonstrated in a continuous collaboration with The Catholic Schools-Computers and Networks (CS-CAN) program. CS-CAN was founded in 2001 by a group of Massachusetts business executives with the goal of installing networked computers with Internet access across all 177 Catholic schools in the Boston Archdiocese.

EMC donates laptops, provides help desk services

EMC was one of the first companies to participate by "adopting" a school. EMC donated 37 laptops to Mt. St. Joseph Academy, a high school for girls in Brighton, MA, and ten computers and other equipment to Dorcester's Monsignor Ryan Memorial High School for girls. To ensure the schools could use their new CS-CAN computers to their full potential, EMC also provided help desk services. EMC has continued its relationship with Mt. St. Joseph Academy by contributing annually to its scholarship fund, and in 2007 funded its new FIRST Robotics team.

CS-CAN teachers receive training

In addition, EMC worked with ETI, one of its vendors, to develop custom training courses for the schools, and invited faculty from all of Boston parochial inner-city schools to participate in courses on Microsoft applications on site at EMC. Over 40 teachers and administrators took advantage of this training experience.

In 2007, as in previous years, EMC contributed to the 17^th annual Inner City Scholarship Fund, a program of the Catholic Schools Foundation that provides deserving inner-city students with scholarships for parochial education in the Boston area.