Chesterfield County Public Schools Engineers Solution to Pandemic Problem with Citrix®
November 17 2020 - 8:30AM
Business Wire
District implements digital workspace
technology to keep STEM labs running, students learning
COVID-19 has forced schools around the world to think outside
the box when it comes to educating students. And Chesterfield
County Public Schools (CCPS) has risen to the occasion. Leveraging
digital workspace solutions from Citrix Systems, Inc.
(NASDAQ:CTXS), the district is providing the more than 5,000
students enrolled in its Career and Technical Education (CTE)
programs with secure and reliable access to the systems and
software they need to excel while learning remote.
“Meeting the needs of all students during the pandemic required
Chesterfield Schools to identify a solution to extend specialized
computer-based learning to the home environment,” said Brian Jones,
Executive Director of Technology Services, CCPS. “Waiting until
students could return to their CTE labs was not an option.”
A Flexible Approach
But the district realized it would face some unique challenges
in finding the right offering. The STEM-based curriculum taught as
part of the district’s CTE programs relies heavily on memory and
compute-intensive software run on CAD stations set up in labs
across 12 schools.
“This isn’t software that can be loaded onto your average PC,”
said Achim Purdy, Network Manager, CCPS. “And without access to the
high-powered machines on which it is run, students can’t
effectively learn.”
Facing the same plight, many districts across the country opted
to suspend their STEM programs until students can return to
classrooms fulltime. CCPS chose a different route.
A Powerful Solution
Like the more than 400,000 companies around the world using
Citrix digital workspace solutions to power the flexible work
models that COVID-19 demands, the district chose to implement
Citrix® Virtual Apps and Desktops™ Service and Citrix Remote PC
Access™ to deliver a familiar virtual desktop from which CTE
students can safely access all the resources they need to learn and
a high-performance experience that enables them to excel from
home.
And in less than two weeks, it had achieved its goal.
“With Citrix, students can quickly and easily connect to the CAD
stations they use in our labs from their school-issued Chromebooks”
Purdy said. “Everything looks the same and is delivered in a
reliable way so they can just focus and do their best work.”
CCPS joins hundreds of educational institutions using Citrix
solutions to power a better way to learn. To find out more about
these solutions and the value they can deliver, visit:
https://www.citrix.com/solutions/education/
About CCPS
Chesterfield County Public Schools is the public school system
of Chesterfield County, Virginia and serves more than 63,000
students across 39 elementary schools (grades K-5), 12 middle
schools (grades 6-8), and 11 high schools (grades 9-12.)
Additionally, high school students can enroll in 13 specialty
centers, two technical centers, and two Governor's Schools. For
more information, visit https://mychesterfieldschools.com
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