For year 10 high school student Skye, Thursday nights used to mean a difficult choice: scouts or homework.

After class homework clinics with access to computers were only held once a week and clashed with her favourite extra curricular activity, leaving her to choose between keeping up with peers or pursuing a pastime she loved.

The rest of the time, she was forced to hunch over her phone to type out assignments.

"I didn't really have any technology," says the southwestern Sydney teen.

"It was really hard to do assessments and stuff. On Thursdays, I'd have to stay back after school to use the computers but that was also when I had scouts. It was one or the other."

Skye's mum Elaine recalls watching her struggle to keep pace.

"She was trying to keep up but without the access of a comp

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