BOISE (AP) - Eleven Idaho schools will share a $3 million state grant meant to test technology in the classroom, everything from using Apple iPads to capture more students' attention to giving Lenovo laptops to high school kids to help them build skills to attend college.

The winners were announced Monday by Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Luna after the technology pilot program was approved by the 2013 Legislature.

When voters rejected Luna's education overhaul including a one-to-one laptop program at the polls last November, this grant program was envisioned by Luna as a more modest alternative to test classroom technology projects, in hopes of settling on the most effective ones that had the potential to be expanded to other schools across the state.

The winners are spread across Idaho, though nearly a third of the money is going to a single school, Kuna Middle School in Kuna, a railroad town south of Boise.

Beutler Middle School in Dayton will receive nearly $139,000 for iPads; Compass Public Charter School in Meridian got $180,000 for three computer labs and three classroom sets of iPads; Discovery Elementary School in Meridian received $370,000 for computer devices to be rotated between classes; and Idaho Distance Education Academy in Deary got nearly $68,000 for a two-year project to redefine the way the school uses technology.

In central Idaho, McCall-Donnelly High School in McCall will get $150,000 to help fund an iPad club; Middleton High School in Middleton gets $428,000 to equip its students with Lenovo Thinkpads; Moscow Middle School in Moscow gets $180,000 to pilot so-called "interactive white boards;" Park Intermediate School in Weiser will receive $55,000 to set up a Chromebook lab and a Mobile Android 4.0.

And in western Idaho, Parma Middle School in Parma is getting $84,000 to pilot an interactive online curriculum using multi-touch interactive surface display tables; and Sugar Salem High School in eastern Idaho's Sugar City is getting $455,000 for a one-to-one laptop initiative with Hewlett-Packard 4440s.

Luna's office made the selections after receiving $19.5 million worth of proposals from dozens of schools hoping for a share of the cash.