Program introducing Urbana students to technology

URBANA – Ceigan Westfield created a checkbook in Microsoft's Excel program Tuesday afternoon, to track income and expenses such as rent, car payment and insurance.

Ceigan doesn't pay rent or have a car. He's only 9, and in the third grade at King Elementary School in Urbana. But he's learning to use Excel, a spreadsheet program often used for financial tasks, by making the checkbook.

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