In his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Barack Obama spent just over an hour highlighting the areas in which our country could improve, while also lauding the positive developments that have taken place since his last address in 2013.

Coming off of a particularly tumultuous year for his administration and Washington as a whole, Obama took some hard line stances on what he hopes to accomplish during this year. As a president entering his sixth year in office, Obama has plenty of things to reflect on, both positively and negatively. One of the projects he chose to emphasize on Tuesday was the ConnectED program, which is backed in part by Apple.

The initiative, which President Obama announced during his State of the Union speech last January, aims to connect 99 percent of students in the United States to high-speed internet. Obama initially said he wanted to complete the project by the end of his second term, with support from giants in the technology world. The support, Obama said last night, has come through and the project is ready to be implemented in U.S. schools.

"Tonight I can announce that with the support of the FCC and companies like Apple, Microsoft, Sprint and Verizon, we've got a down payment to start connecting more than 15,000 schools and 20 million students over the next two years without adding a dime to the deficit," Obama said in the address.

In a statement released Wednesday, Apple said it was proud to be working with the president on such a historic and far-reaching initiative. Apple spoke about its long history of contributing to education, though donations of both money and electronic devices.

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