Apple on Friday sent invitations to press outlets for a special event to be held in Chicago on March 27 at 10:00 am.

With the tagline, “Let’s take a field trip,” Apple’s invitation also says to join them “to hear creative new ideas for teachers and students.”
There is no indication that any new updated products will be part of this initiative, but it would make sense that perhaps iPads and Macs will play a role in the event.
Dare I hope for minis as well?
I feel like it has to be code and software focused. Chicago public high schools apparently have a computer science course requirement in order to graduate. There’s a reason they’re going out to Chicago.
Perhaps an Obama sighting too.
yep. from the betas there’s a new ‘classkit’ so they will likely be talking about that. perhaps updates to iBooks textbooks, iBooks author and iTunes U. maybe some new class pricing schemes for apps.
but likely not any new hardware announcements.