AWS Public Sector Blog
Author: Tara Anderson
Tara Anderson is a strategy and business development manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS), responsible for enabling K12 regional educational service agencies (ESAs) across the US to expand their services to support underserved K12 districts. In her role, Tara works with ESAs to modernize technology, applications, and services; increase efficiency and agility; and lead statewide K12 projects. Tara is passionate about helping ESAs innovate and create equitable solutions and economies of scale for districts of all sizes. Outside of work, Tara enjoys traveling to new places and spending time with her family, doodles, and horses.
How East Central Ohio ESC supports student success and saves schools thousands of dollars with AWS
Career and Technology Education (CTE) programs like architecture, design, and digital editing can require significant computing power and high-end graphics cards. While many schools across the US provide students with laptops to provide access to web-based applications, these laptops often don’t have the computing power to support these types of programs. The East Central Ohio Educational Service Center (East Central Ohio ESC) addresses this issue for central east Ohio schools by using AWS. With the cloud, East Central Ohio ESC helps school districts save thousands of dollars, and in one case up to a million, providing students and teachers with the computing resources they need to succeed in their classes from anywhere.