Lafayette College is a private liber- al arts college founded in 1826 in Easton, Pennsylvania. The Depart- ment of Geology and Environmental Geosciences off ers a broad back- ground in the various disciplines of the geosciences. Although the department is housed in a building constructed in 1896, it features state of the art classroom and lab spaces. The newly renovated Petrology Lab is the latest addition. “The last time the space had been renovated was in the 1970’s,” stated John Wilson, Laboratory Coordinator at Lafayette. “We had no technology at all, and being such actively en- gaged teachers, we no longer want- ed to be limited by such a primitive space.” The project began with a desire for a simple smart classroom. “We were thinking a computer and a projector,” sai

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