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Summary
A district-wide esports program at Modesto City Schools is reaching students who never stayed after the bell: 79% of participants had never joined a club, sport, or after-school activity before. Matthew Ketchum, Director of Educational Technology, runs the program across 13 schools with fully furnished rooms of gaming PCs, esports chairs, and desks, plus shoutcasting on Twitch and play in a competitive Northern California league. He also describes how folding ed tech into the IT department, under one division CTO Russ Elkin calls Information Educational Technology Services, changed how technology gets rolled out. The team pilots with the real end users, gathers their feedback, and iterates. It brings affected educational partners into the decision before scaling.
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