Graduations Begin Again in Dunedin

Well its that time of the term again to celebrate the acheivements of another school of people. Last night was no different with the graduation of ten families from Queens High School. However this one was a little out of the norm with all the graduating families having the opportunity to be some of the first families in New Zealand to have access to an Ultra Fast Broadband connection. This is a vision of The Digital Office in Dunedin, who want to see an affordable, reliable connection for all families to the UFB cabling. It has been discussed and planned for the past year or so. Principal Julie Anderson was brave enough to put her hand up and give her school families this chance. Meetings were held and problems solved and with help of numerous companies and individuals it has finally come to fruition with all ten families due to get their connections live next week. We did need to get some families up to speed with the hardware, and some digital knowledge and this all started eight weeks ago when they signed up for a CiH course. They have been a very dedicated and committed pair of classes. All participants were very happy to receive their machines last night and are eagerly awaiting their Internet. Once more thanks to the CiH tutors Liz & Tony Hayward and Rebecca South who gave their classes the confidence to take on this project. To Julie thanks for opening your school to the community and we look forward to undertaking one more class here next term. We were honoured by one participant Dan speaking on the groups behalf, and I can only endorse his views on just how amazing it was to see the school community joining together at the school for the betterment of their families. How true are those words. Queens Graduation September 2012 on PhotoPeach