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CASE STUDY: CHROMEBOOK K-12 SOLUTION
Client: Raymore-Peculiar School District
Location: Peculiar, MO
Chromebook Classroom
Best Buy® partners with Raymore-Peculiar
School District to deploy a turnkey
Chromebook solution.
“Anyone in the market for Chromebooks should
give Josh and his team at Best Buy a call. They
have shown superior customer service and ontime delivery with every order we have placed.”
- Ryan Gooding, Director of Technology
Raymore-Peculiar School District, Peculiar, MO
THE CLIENT
Located 20 minutes south of Kansas City, RaymorePeculiar School District enrolls over 6,000 students in
its K-12 schools. Their stated vision is “Turning Today’s
Learners into Tomorrow’s Leaders,” and part of that vision
includes a digital transformation process designed to
increase the use of technology in their schools.
THE CHALLENGE
In 2014, Raymore-Peculiar began a BYOD pilot program
in select classrooms, and quickly realized they wanted to
expand the initiative to include more students and provide
devices for in-class use to supplement the program. Rapid
deployment was essential.
THE SOLUTION
Ryan Gooding, Director of Technology for RaymorePeculiar worked with Best Buy Strategic Account Manager,
Josh Brown, to formulate a plan. Josh, a former graduate
of Ray-Pec High School, was happy to step up to the
challenge and looked forward to devoting his best efforts
to advancing technology opportunities for students in
the community. He knew that Raymore-Peculiar needed
a turnkey solution that could be rolled out as quickly as
possible.
Josh and Ryan agreed that Chromebooks would fit the
bill, and in June of 2014, the school board approved an
initial bid for 600 Samsung XE303 Chromebooks along
with the Google Device Management Console, Chrome
Complete Service and Asset Tagging.
THE IMPLEMENTATION
Best Buy enlisted its Geek Squad® team to set up and
load the Chrome Management console on every device,
update the Chrome OS and tag and enroll each device
on the school’s EDU domain. The combination of the
right devices and services that fit the school’s budget
was key to the project’s success. The Chromebooks were
delivered ready for immediate deployment.
THE ONGOING RELATIONSHIP
Ryan was happy with the solution, as it enabled the district
to put new technology into students’ hands quickly and
efficiently. The Geek Squad pre-deployment services
and Josh’s advice and guidance throughout the process
solidified the relationship between Best Buy and the
Raymore-Peculiar School district.
Since the initial project, Best Buy has partnered with
Raymore-Peculiar to provide a total of 1,500 Chromebooks
to date, and the relationship continues. Raymore’s goal
is to provide a 1:1 technology solution for students and
teachers to further education within their district.
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