Students from New Bedford, Fall River and Brockton left the Dennison Memorial Community Center in New Bedford on Tuesday with refurbished laptops to allow them to better keep up with their schoolwork.  

The Massachusetts State Police, Police Activities League of Massachusetts and AT&T distributed 100 laptops to students in need. 

The laptop giveaway is part of AT&T’s five-year nationwide program to donate $5 billion worth of laptops and software for digital literacy programs to close the digital divide, according to John Emra, president of the AT&T Atlantic Region. 

“The reality is in this day and age, that if you don’t have a laptop, you don’t have the ability to get on the Internet and you’re really going to get left behind,” Emra said.

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