18/19

Technology Plan

The Palmdale Aerospace Academy

 Acknowledgements:

District Technology Staff:

Omar Cortez – IT Manager

Michael Duarte – Technical Consultant

Karina Guzman – Technical Support

Jeremy Germita – Systems Analyst

School Administration:

Dr. Laura Herman – Headmaster

Brandy Price – Assistant Headmaster

Dr. Ogo Okoye Johnson – Assistant Headmaster

Dr. Sean Ramsey – Assistant Headmaster

Priyadarshini Darbari – Assistant Headmaster

Huberth Morales – Assistant Headmaster

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Contents

Purpose............................................................................................................................................ 3
General Statement ........................................................................................................................... 3
Current Scenario ............................................................................................................................. 3
Proposed Technology...................................................................................................................... 3
Expansion........................................................................................................................................ 4
Technology plan Student/Staff upgrade schedule........................................................................... 4
Maintenance & Repair .................................................................................................................... 6
Packages for Staff ........................................................................................................................... 7
Replacements .................................................................................................................................. 8
Purchasing ....................................................................................................................................... 8
18/19 Total Staff tech implementation Cost: .............................................................................. 9
Teacher Breakdown: ................................................................................................................... 9
Per Classroom Cost ..................................................................................................................... 9
19/20 Total tech implementation costs: .................................................................................... 10
20/21 Total tech implementation costs: .................................................................................... 10
21/22 Total tech implementation costs: .................................................................................... 10
Estimated Total Cost of 18/19-21/22: ........................................................................................... 11
Recycle .......................................................................................................................................... 11
Conclusion .................................................................................................................................... 11

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Purpose
As a leader in using technology as an essential foundation for teaching, The Palmdale Aerospace
Academy (TPAA) recognizes the value of a technology plan as the underlying roadmap to
enhance the educational experience for our students with the use of technology. TPAA is
committed to providing cutting-edge technology in its classrooms, and preparing our students for
tomorrow’s careers.

General Statement
The Palmdale Aerospace Academy recognizes the importance of implementing a technology
plan to communicate to its board members, teachers, students and parents alike of its
commitment to keep its technology up to date.

The technology plan outlined below will provide our students with the latest technologies,
adding value to their learning as well as skills necessary for when they graduate TPAA and move
on to a college, university, or professional environment.

Current Scenario
Currently, TPAA has implemented various technologies for our students in the classroom as well
as our support staff across campus. These technologies include PCs, Laptops, Chrome Books,
and HP Streams. With the new infrastructure and laptop cart replacements across campus, our
student technology is performing exceedingly well and is primed to have a longer life
expectancy. The hardware for staff, however, is beginning to show signs of wear from excessive
use with issues ranging from problematic old printers with irreplaceable parts to PCs with failing
hardware and old and outdated monitors.

Proposed Technology
As the TPAA Technology Plan (hereinafter referred to as the Tech Plan) has streamlined our
technology in the classrooms down to two devices which can thrive in our environment, it is now
time to look at the backbone of the school and upgrade our support staffs’ technology. The Tech
Plan calls for upgrades to our classroom tech after the fourth year of use. With this new
staggered upgrade schedule, this enables us to upgrade not only support staff, but also add
quality of life improvements for our teachers as well.

The Tech Plan is to include a Virtual Reality Pilot program too. Given the growing world of VR,
TPAA plans to invest slowly into headsets to stay ahead of the curve without depleting its
resources. These will include standalone headsets that do not require a phone to be inserted.

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Expansion
The Tech Plan life cycle is four years, commencing August of the 18/19 school year through
August of the 21/22 school year. We will execute a progressive technology expansion upgrading
an average of 33% of our classroom technology per year.

August August August August August August August August

2015\16 2016\17 2017\18 2018\19 2019\20 2020\21 2021\22 2022\23
Dell
5550 1 2 3 4 Retired
Dell
5570 1 2 3 4 Retired
Dell
5580 1 2 3 4 Retired
Staff
2018/19 Staff Retire
Dell 55**
19/20 1 2 3 4
Dell 55**
20/21 1 2 3
Dell 55**
21/22 1 2
Staff
22/23 1

Technology plan Student/Staff upgrade schedule.

Upgrade Year Area # of Staff Laptop Desktop Streams
18/19 Admins 6 6 0 0
18/19 Attendance 1 1 0 0
18/19 Cafeteria Register 4 0 4 0
18/19 Cafeteria Staff 6 1 5 0
18/19 Camp Sup 3 1 2 4
18/19 Counselors 7 5 2 0
18/19 Gym Tech 2 0 0 2
18/19 HR 3 3 0 0
18/19 LF/Teacher Aid 25 0 0 25
18/19 Maint. sub office 4 0 2 0
18/19 Maintenance 3 1 2 0
18/19 Nurse 1 1 0 0
18/19 Open office 13 11 1 1*
18/19 Purchasing 1 1 0 0
18/19 Reception 2 0 2 0

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18/19 Rovers 3 3 0 0
18/19 Ship/Receiving 1 0 1 0
18/19 Student Store 1 0 1 0
18/19 Tech 5 4 1 0

Upgrade Current Current

Current Tech Proposed
Year Room Teacher
19/20 323 Jurado Chromebook Notebook
19/20 305 Chang Chromebook Notebook
19/20 312 Kenney Chromebook Notebook
19/20 306 Herrera Chromebook Notebook
19/20 324 Delestre Chromebook Notebook
19/20 317 Jennings Chromebook Notebook
19/20 327 Medina Chromebook Notebook
19/20 421 Conner Chromebook Notebook
19/20 420 Patlan Chromebook Notebook
19/20 422 Suarez Chromebook Notebook
19/20 414 Hist TBD Chromebook Notebook
19/20 415 Mawhorter Chromebook Notebook
19/20 404 Collins Chromebook Notebook
19/20 402 Breight Chromebook Notebook
Mark
19/20 403 Chromebook Notebook
Thomas
19/20 203 Bennewitz Stream Notebook
19/20 309 Gray Stream Notebook
19/20 205 Madrid Stream Notebook
19/20 206 Guzman Stream Notebook
19/20 202 Todd Stream Notebook
19/20 209 Goff Stream Notebook
19/20 105 Torres Dell 5550 (15/16) Laptop
19/20 211 Venugopal Dell 5550 (15/16) Laptop

108 Thomas
Dell 5570 Laptop
20/21 107 Crook
20/21 104 Perry Dell 5570 Laptop
20/21 102 Martin Dell 5570 Laptop
20/21 111 Eisen Dell 5570 Laptop
20/21 316 Kirkendall Stream Notebook
20/21 106 Grissom Stream Notebook

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 20/21 311 Carver Stream Notebook
20/21 321 RSP Stream Notebook
20/21 207 Han Stream Notebook
20/21 419 Reyes Stream Notebook
20/21 325 Ortega Stream Notebook
20/21 208 Hesiak Stream Notebook

21/22 103 Jenkins Dell 5580 Laptop

21/22 416 Aktutay Dell 5580 Laptop
21/22 417 Bergman Dell 5580 Laptop
Hendricks,
424 Dell 5580 Laptop
21/22 H.
21/22 425 Kirk Dell 5580 Laptop
21/22 204 Termath Dell 5580 Laptop
21/22 109 Field Dell 5580 Laptop
21/22 210 Molik Dell 5580 Laptop
21/22 101 Deason Dell 5580 Laptop
21/22 110 Brophy Dell 5580 Laptop
21/22 314 Douglass Stream Notebook
21/22 313 Vogt Stream Notebook
21/22 301 Bertram Stream Notebook
21/22 303 Barnes Stream Notebook
21/22 319 Brent Stream Notebook
21/22 315 Haworth Stream Notebook
21/22 302 Naus Stream Notebook
21/22 305 Warford Stream (journalism) Notebook
Hendricks,
318 Stream 2017 Notebook
21/22 D.

Maintenance & Repair

All classroom devices come with a one-year support plan from the manufacturer; in addition, IT
will develop “tech care” policies including: “How to Care for Your Technology” steps and
videos, these policies will be shared with students at the beginning of each semester.

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Packages for Staff
There are five tiers planned for various staff that will be determined by staff duties and are as
follows:

T1: Staff Package 1

New laptop, new dual monitors with dual monitor free-floating stand, docking station, and a
wireless keyboard/mouse combo.

T2: Staff Package 2

New desktop, new dual monitors with dual monitor free-floating stand and a wireless
keyboard/mouse combo.

T3: Mobile Package

Windows based notebook device and wireless mouse.

T4: Teacher Package

Single monitor with free-floating monitor stand, wireless keyboard/mouse combo, speaker
system, printer, projector, and document camera.

T5: Clock-in Station Package

New tablet devices for clock in stations around campus, with security cases mounted to either
wall or stand mounts.

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Replacements
Although the Tech Plan has a strong focus on technology going into our classrooms, all TPAA
technology infrastructure will be reviewed according to function and industry standard.

Device: Location Life cycle Mfgr. support

Software Classroom As recommended by Yearly renewal
PLTW – STEM
HP Streams Classroom 4 years 1 year
Dell Laptops Classroom 4 years 1 year
Wireless access points Classroom 5 years 1 year

Offices:
Software Staff- MS Office 4 years Yearly renewal
PCs - Laptops Teachers & Staff 4 years 1 year
Google services Staff/Classroom 4 years 1 year

Networking:
Servers Infrastructure 5 years 1 year
Switches/Routers Infrastructure 5 years 1 year
Wireless controller Infrastructure 3 years 3 years
Video Security Infrastructure 3 years 3 years
Firewall Infrastructure 3 years 3 years
Printers Infrastructure 3 years 1 year

Services:
Internet service Infrastructure 3 years 3 years
Anti-virus Infrastructure 3 years 3 years
Backup/Software Infrastructure 3 years 1 year

Security:
Cisco Umbrella Infrastructure 5 years 3 years
Cisco Meraki Infrastructure 5 years 5 years
Informacast Infrastructure 5 years 5 years

Purchasing
The TPAA IT department will negotiate with multiple vendors to acquire the lowest price for the
outlined technology. Current vendors include: CDW, DELL, and Best Buy.

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18/19 Total Staff tech implementation Cost:
Mice Docking Wireless
Laptops Desktops Stream Monitors Combo Station Mouse Mounts Mac
$64,942.00 $21,597.00 $7,352.27 $15,848.96 $6,199.38 $11,399.62 $2,159.73 $2,729.09 $2,699.00

Tablets Security Mounts

$1,319.96 $131.96

Teacher Breakdown:
Monitor Mouse Document Docking DVD
Price Combo Speakers Camera Station Mount Printers Projectors Drive

$11,099.26 $7,399.26 $19,610.00 $8,065.26 $12,579.26 $1,923.26 $19,640.49 $36,515.49 $2,219.26

All Staff Grand Total:

$255,430.51

Per Classroom Cost

The standard number of devices per classroom is 34.
Devices per classroom (X) cost per device (=) cost per classroom.
Upgrade Per Per # of # of Price per
Year Device Device Cart Classrooms Devices Classroom
2017 Acer
Chromebook 15.6"
(MSRP) $344.26 34 1 34 $11,704.84
HP Stream pro 11
(MSRP) $369.00 34 1 34 $12,546.00
Dell 55xx
Replacement $988.52 34 1 34 $33,609.68
Oculus Go
(Virtual Reality) $199.00 17 1 17 $3,383.00

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19/20 Total tech implementation costs:
Upgrade Per Per # of # of
Year Device Device Cart Classrooms Devices Price
2017 Acer
Chromebook 15.6"
19/20 (MSRP) $344.26 34 21 714 $245,801.64
HP Stream pro 11
(MSRP) $369.00 34 21 714 $263,466.00
Dell 55xx
Replacement $988.52 34 2 68 $67,219.36
Oculus Go
(Virtual Reality) $199.00 17 1 17 $3,383.00

20/21 Total tech implementation costs:

Upgrade Per Per # of # of
Year Device Device Cart Classrooms Devices Price
2017 Acer
Chromebook 15.6"
20/21 (MSRP) $344.26 34 8 272 $93,638.72
HP Stream pro 11
(MSRP) $369.00 34 8 272 $100,368.00
Dell 55xx
Replacement $988.52 34 4 136 $134,438.72
Oculus Go
(Virtual Reality) $199.00 17 1 17 $3,383.00

21/22 Total tech implementation costs:

Upgrade Per Per # of # of
Year Device Device Cart Classrooms Devices Price
2017 Acer
Chromebook 15.6"
21/22 (MSRP) $344.26 34 9 306 $105,343.56
HP Stream pro 11
(MSRP) $369.00 34 9 306 $112,914.00
Dell 55xx
Replacement $988.52 34 10 340 $336,096.80
Oculus Go
(Virtual Reality) $199.00 17 1 17 $3,383.00

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Estimated Total Cost of 18/19-21/22:
Chrome/Dell HP/Dell Oculus (Pilot Program)

18/19 $255,430.51 $3,383.00

19/20 $313,021.00 $330,685.36 $3,383.00

20/21 $228,077.44 $234,806.72 $3,383.00

21/22 $441,440.36 $449,010.80 $3,383.00

Total $1,237,969.31 $1,269,933.39 $13,532.00

Recycle
Depending on the condition of the technology at the end of its life cycle, we have numerous
options including, but not limited to:

 Reassigning technology to another purpose within campus, i.e.: a sophisticated STEM

laptop may be relocated to another classroom of lesser usage or to a teacher or office
staff.
 Sell the used technology to other schools or individuals, proceeds will return to TPAA
funds.
 Scrap & recycle technology through a vendor or city program.

Conclusion
The focus of the TPAA Technology Plan is to provide our students with cutting-edge technology
to propel them forward, enriching their learning experience with the latest technology while
preparing them for tomorrow’s careers.

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