MARYSVILLE — A day’s ride by more than a dozen bikers will help provide high-tech tools to all the students at Shoultes Elementary.

Members of the Unchained Brotherhood motorcycle club raised $400 for the school through its second annual 120-mile ride Sept. 13, the same day that a clothing drive generated an additional $600 for Shoultes.

“We’re so grateful to this club,” Principal Lynn Heimsoth said. “They’ve been so generous. Beyond the basic admission fee they paid to ride, they all donated a little something extra.”

PTSA President Lori Pietzsch recalled that the proceeds of last year’s ride went toward the purchase of NFL books for the kids, but this year’s funds will be applied more practically.

“It was important to the club that all our kids have access to whatever we spent this money on,” said Heimsoth, who plans to equip the school’s 30 iPad minis with protective cases and screen covers. “Through our circulating mobile labs, all the students will use these, so these cases and covers should help keep them in good condition, they can last a long time.”

Don “Gunny” Weddle is a former Marine, a Shoultes parent and the national treasurer of the Unchained Brotherhood, and he feels comfortable leaving it up to the school’s staff how they’ll use the funds.

“We want it to go wherever the school needs it, whether that’s school supplies, field trips or whatever,” Weddle said.

Heimsoth hopes that the iPads will prepare Shoultes students for the future, by teaching them to approach technology and media proactively.

“We want them to learn apps so that they become not just consumers, but creators,” Heimsoth said. “We have to get them ready for a global economic environment that’s far different from what we knew when we were growing up.”