Central Coast Grammar School leads in Digital Education Revolution

Visits from seven schools so far this year, with more planned, culminated in Central Coast Grammar School hosting a party of 20 Indonesian visitors in August who wanted to understand why HP’s Thin Client Solutions have made such a difference at the School.

Central Coast Grammar School has adopted an early and long term strategy of significant investment in information technology infrastructure that provides the best possible learning environment for its 1,200 students. Spread throughout the school, covered by a wireless network, notebooks are used by teachers plus all students in Years 5 – 9. Desktops are also used in the library, 20 specialist digital classrooms, the Languages Other Than English (LOTE) lab, and administration.

Instead of individually maintaining and supporting 150 desktops at locations all around the campus, the school elected to deploy HP Thin Client computers when replacing hardware after lease expiry. The phased approach to implementation means that desktops are replaced with Thin Clients that connect virtually to HP Blade PCs located in a centralized data centre.

Central Coast Grammar School’s ICT Manager, Michael Lowbridge, said, “The Thin Clients are standard so people are using exactly the same machine no matter where they are around the School.” Reduced power consumption contributes to the School’s sustainability management plan and its goal to become ‘greener’. Maintenance is streamlined as problem solving can be done centrally, saving trips out to classrooms and offices around the campus. Hardware lasts longer so can be leased over a five-year rather than a three-year period, which also helps to lower costs.

The Indonesian party included CIOs/CEOs from the finance and manufacturing as well as education sectors and coincided with HP’s launch of this innovative technology in Indonesia.

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