The IT revolution in school had a very modest beginning in the year 1982, when the first computer arrived in school on 16th October. It was a gift to the institution by the SOBA. Mr. Arjun Puri (Ex Je ’48) provided the much needed expertise by conducting a Computer Appreciation Seminar. The Scindia School thus became the first public school in India to introduce the computer. At that time it was considered to be a great leap forward in educational experiment in school education in India. From that day to now, the IT facilities in school have grown in leaps and bounds. The computer facility in school has thrown open the ever expanding world of technology to the boys. The ICT facility has grown exponentially in a little over a decade. As Mr. RK Kapoor, the dean of ICT says that from 19 computers in the year 1996 the School now boasts of an impressive state- of- the- art data centre and 296 desktops. We have the campus license from Adobe for a range of multimedia software. Due to the ready availability of computers, combined with the assistance of the School staff and the NIIT faculty each student is quite a computer whiz. The School has many firsts to its credit in the ICT field. It is the first school in Asia to have gone for school on campus arrangement with Microsoft. It is also the first school in the country to have included IT in its curriculum. In 1985 when CBSE held its All India Computer exam, only four students appeared for it - they were all from Scindia School. In the year 2004 the School received the President’s award for the best IT infrastructure at the state level. The NFO study of thirty three Indian schools through an independent agency Mackenzie rated our school as leading in thirty nine out of a total of forty three criteria. The latest feather in our cap is winning the eINDIA 2009 Awards in the category 'Digital Learning ICT Enabled School of the Year'. The School also hosts the Suryodaya IT Fest in which the best of IT brains from the different schools come and compete in a creatively challenging and stimulating atmosphere. An average Scindian can very aptly be called a ‘mouse potato’ as most boys love to spend time on hobbies like video editing, web designing and many more. From Devraj Mukherjee (ex Jyotiba ’97) who designed the school website and who conducted classes for junior boys while being a student himself to many others who followed the computer labs in school are the breeding grounds of many a software professional.
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