District technology team reports field-network upgrades, testing preparations and scheduled electronics recycling

Eric Hill, leading the technology update, reported completion of several field-network and audio projects: fiber was extended to the snack shacks at both softball and baseball fields (baseball fiber routed from the press box at Bulldog Stadium) and speaker wiring, mounts and wireless access points were installed to provide coverage across both fields. A broken speaker bracket on the softball side delayed one speaker; the vendor will ship a replacement bracket.

Hill outlined test-day preparation for the spring PSSA and Keystone exams: PIMS student-template uploads were completed in March, test sessions were created as part of the PIMS upload (reducing manual counselor work), DRC applications on Chromebooks were updated, spare devices and chargers were staged at middle and elementary testing sites, and tech staff will be onsite to support testing.

On recycling, Hill said the district has about six pallets of obsolete equipment (access points, old speakers, paging circuitry, projectors, Chromebooks and stripped parts, VCRs, TVs). Sycamore International will pick up the material on Thursday, April 9; the vendor performs hard-drive destruction to MIL standards and provides certificates documenting destruction.

What comes next: District technology will monitor installation completions, support the upcoming assessments on the scheduled days, and coordinate the e-waste pickup and certificates.