Mrs. Carolyn Patrick has been the computer teacher at JCDS and now the Meyer Academy since 1997. She previously taught in a large suburban school district outside the Kansas City area. She loves computers, gardening, and boating. When she first arrived at JCDS in the late summer of 1997, there were fewer than twenty computers on the entire campus. They were not networked, and only a few were able to access the internet. Wow! Things have really changed since then. We now have over 200 computers on our campus, all of which are networked and connected to the internet with a T-3 line. We currently have 13 Smartboards, 16 document cameras, several digital video cameras, and many digital cameras. The teachers now use electronic gradebooks and web-based e-mail.