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Arlo Plumb ’25 was sitting in his dining room, putting off chemistry homework, when an unfamiliar Pennsylvania number appeared on his phone. He usually didn’t answer calls from numbers he […]
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Arlo Plumb ’25 was sitting in his dining room, putting off chemistry homework, when an unfamiliar Pennsylvania number appeared on his phone. He usually didn’t answer calls from numbers he didn’t recognize, but something told him to pick up.
The person on the other end had interviewed him months earlier for the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange. She was calling to tell him he had been selected.
The Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange, known as CBYX, is a full scholarship program jointly funded by the U.S. Congress and the German Bundestag. American students spend an academic year living with host families and attending school in Germany, while German students have the opportunity to do the same in the United States.
He returned to Lancaster with greater confidence, stronger German skills and a clearer idea of his future. This fall, Arlo will attend the University of British Columbia, where he hopes to study international relations and minor in German. He is also learning French and Russian.
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Each morning, students open devices to complete assignments and explore new ideas while teachers use digital tools to plan instruction and connect with families.
Those experiences depend on an IT team working each day to keep the School District of Lancaster connected.
National IT Professionals Day offers an opportunity to recognize the people behind that work.
The School District of Lancaster IT professionals manage the devices and infrastructure connecting classrooms across the district.
Supporting a district as large and complex as SDoL takes technical knowledge and a strong understanding of how schools operate. Each solution must make sense in the classroom while meeting districtwide needs for security and access.
Their role helps ensure students have equitable access to technology while supporting the district’s vision of empowering creative digital learners.
Their work gives students opportunities to develop skills they’ll carry into college, into their careers and an increasingly digital world.
On National IT Professionals Day, we thank every member of our IT team for keeping our schools connected. Your expertise helps technology work in service of teaching and learning across the district each day!
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