Salyards receives Friends of Technology Award

   At the annual convention of the Colorado Association of School Executives held last week, Northeast Colorado BOCES director of special projects Arlene Salyards was presented with the Friends of Technology Award. The award comes from the Colorado Association of Leaders in Educational Technology Department.
    Salyards was recognized as part of a team including Denise Shorey, Jarrod Masterson and Tim Miles who collaborated to create a proposal that drastically reduced the price of internet service for over 30 school districts.
    To give one example, as a result of their collaborative proposal, the Haxtun School District was able to reduce its monthly internet cost from $2,918 to $870, while increasing the bandwidth available from 200 megabits per second to 1,000 megabits per second — five times faster speed.
    “In times where rural school districts have been at a competitive disadvantage, spending much more for less internet service than metro school districts, this collaborative effort changed the game going forward. This team of talented technology leaders refused to accept that we had to pay more and get less just because we are in rural communities.

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