Former Cambria County resident receives technology award – TribDem.com

Scott D. Miller, formerly of Cambria County and a school administrator, has received the 2017 Pennsylvania Chief Technology Officer of the Year Award in Education at theannual Pennsylvania Educational Technology Expo and Conference.

Miller, director of technology for Wayne Highlands School District, has seen changes in the past three years. He rebuilt the entire district network in Honesdale High School, Wayne Highlands Middle School, Lakeside Elementary, Stourbridge Primary Center, Damascus School and Preston School.

Miller secured Federal e-Rate Funding to help pay for the project, which included the setup of network redundancy, one-to-one iPads in the high school and access to iPad carts in all other buildings. Through his leadership, student email was enabled through Google Apps for Education.

Students and teachers now have access to newer computers, latest operating system versions for both PC (Microsoft Windows 10) and MAC (MacOS Sierra), and software applications from Microsoft Office 2016 through Adobe Studios 2017 Suites such as Photo Shop, Illustrator, Premier and more.

Miller has led three school districts across the statefor nearly 20years in educational technology as a school administrator at Central Cambria School District, Richland School District, and now Wayne Highlands School District.

He will now represent the entire state of Pennsylvania in education as the chief technology officer of the year at the national conference in 2018 as the candidate for the CoSN (Consortium for School Networking) Chief Technology Officer Withrow Award in Washington, D.C.

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