DER+Funding

=Digital Education Revolution Funding : Year 9-12= Caroline Springs College was successful in obtianing the DER Grant of $168,000. This money is to be used at attempting to increase our Computer:Student ratio to 1:2 for Year 9-12 students based on 2008 student enrolments. The funding allocates $1000 per computer with a mimimmum of 168 computer to be purchsed. Any money reamining can be used to purchase additional ICT equipment __not including infrastructure__. This is significant and has greatly affected the distriubution and allocation of the computers. The College has had to invest a further $40,000 to be able to implement this grant.

Brookside
26 computers have been purchased for the Robotics Laboratory in the new Science & Technology Building.

Creekside
25 Computers have been purchased for a newly converted Year 9 Computer Laboratory.

Lakeview
8 Apple iMac Computers have been purchased for Multimedia at Lakeview 50 Computers have been purchsed for upstairs GP 10 & 11 21 Computers have been purchased for the open area GP 3&4 Downstairs 27 Computers have been purchased to create a mini lab in SC3 6 Computers have been allocated to Music/Performing Arts room. 5 Computers have been allocated to Arts/Visual Communication room

Total computers that have been purchased thus far: 168
Computer Specifications: The grant is very specific in the type of computers that can be purchased. The College ICT has team has opted for: Lakeview Mulitmedia has opted for:
 * ACER S460 2.66 GHz Dual Core
 * Apple iMAC 2.4 GHz Dual Core