Digital Record Board

WCAG 2.2 AA Accessible Touchscreens: Why Accessibility Compliance Matters for Schools

Schools and universities installing digital recognition displays face a requirement many administrators initially overlook: accessibility compliance. Federal law mandates that educational institutions provide equal access to information and technology for all students, staff, alumni, and visitors—including individuals with visual, auditory, motor, or cognitive disabilities. The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standard represents the recognized benchmark for digital accessibility, establishing technical requirements that ensure your touchscreen displays serve every member of your community without barriers.

Digital History Archive for Schools: Complete Guide to Preserving & Showcasing Institutional Heritage 2026

Schools hold decades of irreplaceable history in deteriorating yearbooks, fading photographs, crumbling newspaper clippings, and handwritten athletic records peeling off vinyl boards. This heritage—championship seasons, distinguished alumni, defining moments—sits trapped in storage closets or slowly disappears as materials decay and institutional memory fades with retiring staff.

Rocket Recognition: How Digital Recognition Displays Transform Employee Engagement and Organizational Culture

Employee recognition , Digital displays , School technology

Recognition programs consistently rank among the most powerful drivers of engagement, retention, and performance across schools, businesses, nonprofits, and organizations of every type. Yet most institutions struggle with recognition systems that create more frustration than motivation: physical plaques taking weeks to produce and install, trophy cases that fill completely within years, static displays becoming outdated the moment they’re printed, space limitations forcing impossible choices about whose achievements deserve permanent visibility, and recognition that reaches only those who happen to walk past specific hallway locations.

Valedictorian vs Salutatorian: What's the Difference and How Are They Chosen?

Every spring, high schools across America celebrate their highest academic achievers by recognizing valedictorians and salutatorians during graduation ceremonies. These honored students deliver speeches, receive special acknowledgment, and represent years of academic dedication. Yet despite their prominence in graduation traditions, confusion persists about exactly what distinguishes a valedictorian from a salutatorian, how schools determine these honors, and why these designations matter beyond the graduation stage.

Wrestling State Championship: How Tournaments Work and Celebrating Champions

Wrestling state championships represent the pinnacle of high school wrestling achievement, where months of grueling training, weight management, and competitive preparation culminate in intense tournament battles determining individual weight class champions and team supremacy. These championships create defining moments in young athletes’ lives—matches won and lost on single points, overtime victories against rivals, championship rounds watched by packed gymnasiums, and podium moments forever marking wrestlers as state champions. The tournament structure itself—with its complex qualification systems, multiple weight classes, bracket formats, and scoring mechanisms—reflects wrestling’s unique character as simultaneously an individual and team sport.

Touchscreen Display for High School Gym Lobby: Modern Solution to Trophy Overcrowding

Athletic directors across the country face the same frustrating challenge: trophy cases that ran out of space years ago. Walk through any high school gym lobby and you’ll see the evidence—overcrowded shelves with trophies stacked three deep, championship plaques covering every available wall surface, and years of athletic achievements crammed together so tightly that individual honors become invisible. Storage rooms accumulate boxes of trophies removed to make room for recent awards, creating the painful reality that earning recognition today means erasing yesterday’s champions from public view.

New School Building: When to Install a Touchscreen Display in Your Gymnasium

You’re building a new gymnasium, and the question comes up: should we include a touchscreen display for athletic recognition? The immediate answer is yes—but the more critical question is when exactly during construction you should plan for installation. Getting the timing right means the difference between an integrated professional system and an awkward retrofit that looks like an afterthought and costs significantly more.

Why Rocket Touchscreen Isn't Overkill for Small Schools

Small schools evaluating digital recognition systems often hear a familiar concern: platforms like Rocket Alumni Solutions might be “overkill” for institutions with limited teams, modest budgets, and straightforward display needs. The argument sounds reasonable on the surface—why invest in a database-backed, feature-rich system when a Google Slides loop or basic digital signage tool costs 90% less?

120 Ideas for Digital Signage Screens & Kiosks in Schools and Athletic Facilities

Athletic directors and school administrators face a common challenge: keeping digital signage screens and kiosks filled with fresh, meaningful content that engages students, celebrates achievements, and maintains institutional pride. Empty screens or repetitive slideshow content undermines the investment in digital infrastructure.