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Concero was founded in 2008 with a simple mission: support IT in schools and expand our vision across Wolverhampton and beyond. We’ve grown from our educational roots into the award-winning, people-focused IT support business we are today. We do this by showing what’s possible and providing the right support at the right time, no matter where you are. For a chance to win the following… 3 x Optoma 75” Interactive Displays  Wifi Module 3 x Wall Brackets Installation Delivery for Summer 2025 On-site training …Please visit our site here: https://www.concero.education/optoma-competition/ *Please note that this a wider competition, and not just part of the EduGeek birthday celebrations, but we thought you would like a chance to win these for your school 😊

Redway Networks Win a Free Professional WiFi Survey for Your School or College! Dear EduGeek members we're supporting EduGeek’s 20th anniversary by offering a competition prize that’s super valuable . One lucky school or college will win a completely free, professional onsite wireless survey carried out by our certified network engineers using Ekahau. If you are the lucky winner, we’ll visit your school or college onsite, analyse your wireless coverage, pinpoint any blackspots, interference, and performance issues and provide you with a detailed WiFi survey report with practical, expert recommendations to supercharge your network. This isn’t just a quick check-up. It’s the kind of insight that can transform your wireless infrastructure, enhance user experience, and support the demands of modern 1:1 device environment — all free to you via this competition. So enter now for the chance to boost your network performance without spending a penny. Your staff and students will thank you for it. Enter Now: https://www.redwaynetworks.com/wifi-survey-competition Entries open on Monday 9 June and run for one week only. About Redway Networks Redway Networks is a leading IT infrastructure reseller with expertise in the planning, design and installation of enterprise-wide wireless and wired networks to the UK education sector. We use our expertise to recommend the best fit products to suit your needs and budget and future-proof your network.

NetSupport For a chance to win a ‘AtGames Legends Gamer Mini Arcade Console’, simply head to http://netsupportsoftware.com/prize and submit your details to be entered into the draw! Remember to check out our award-winning software for classroom management, safeguarding and IT management, as well - perfect for evaluating over the summer holidays! T+Cs: The prize draw will close on 16th June 2025, so make sure you get in touch before this date. The prize draw will take place on 17th June 2025 and the winner will be emailed and the prize will be posted out to an agreed address. Please note, you must use your school staff email address to enter, and your school must be based in the UK. You must be over 18 years old and have no relation/connection to employees from NetSupport. You will only be entered once into the prize draw. You will also be noted as a contact for your school. Please read our privacy policy here.

Like most, birthdays sometimes creep up on us, but for this, we’ve been keeping an eye on this date for some time. Since EduGeek was created on June the 8th 2005 (the domain was registered) but the site didnt go live for a couple of days as back then it would take over 24 hours for new domains to propagate around the world. To celebrate this, we have asked our sponsors, both past and present to help us out with organising some competitions for you all, and we thought it would be fun to have a potted timeline of events and milestones for you to look at. Please keep in mind that when we started, some schools were still using Windows 98 and NT 4.0 servers! For a small hobby site that founder Chris Byers thought would only have a couple of hundred members, it was never anticipated we would be where we are today with over 114k members and millions of edtechs being helped globally each year. Now on to EduGeek over the years on the next page Timeline: 9th June 2005: EduGeek goes live with the aim of helping EdTechs with the problems only those who work within the education sphere encounter day to day. The original EduGeek logo. Thankfully it didn’t last very long 😊 June 9th 2005: We have our first thread created by a member posted up - https://www.edugeek.net/forums/topic/2-hmmm-beer/ June 10th 2005 : EduGeek gets our first members joining November 2005: We have a new logo! We’re not sure who did this for us, it may have been @SYSMAN_MK Much better and a step in the right direction April 2006: We hold our first ever (small) conference at Rochdale City Learning Centre. Sadly, no pictures of this event can be found. October 2006: EduGeek holds its second conference of the year in Camden CLC. November 2006: EduGeek gets its first sponsor with RM sponsoring the MIS forum for 12 months. This is followed a week later by SCL sponsoring the Hardware forum. January 2007: EduGeek has a ‘presence’ at the BETT show at London’s Olympia where @Grumbledook and @Russdev had started to spread the word about EduGeek. This was also the first time I had met either in the real world. September 2007: EduGeek Gets a new logo! A very nice design courtesy of @SYSMAN_MK 24th October 2007: EduGeek hosts its second conference at a school in Kettering, kindly organised by @GrumbleDook and @russdev. It was here that RM demonstrated the first netbook in the UK and we were very impressed with it for the time #imissnetbooks January 2008: EduGeek has a real stand at BETT! Thanks to the efforts of @Grumbledook and @Russdev, now site admins, we ran the BETT Technical Help Point whilst BETT was still being held at Olympia. One lesson we learnt is that you shouldn’t borrow lots of kit to have on the stand as the people you borrow it from are often not around to take it back after! And what should be a half hour stand take down has us standing around for hours after the show has closed. We also found our stand was next to a small company called Smoothwall. I wonder what happened to them? *Check out the old site logo on the t-shirts! November 2008: EduGeek hits 10,000 members February 2009: EduGeek receives over 1 million visitors per month June 2010: EduGeek Goes to the ISTE conference for the first time. Thanks to a kind invitation by Smoothwall to join them on their stand at Denver. This was quite an education (no pun intended) as to how conferences and the education sector works in the US. December 2010: EduGeek is at 30,000 members. Jan 2011: We took on a monster challenge and exhibited at the Learning Without Frontiers Conference and then went straight into BETT. It was a very long week for all involved, especially as @Dos_Box had to remain in London for an interview on the following Monday. March 2011: Our logo gets updated… Much more professional! July 2011: The EduGeek Conference is held in an old nuclear bunker at Preston! January 2012: EduGeek attends the last BETT Show to be held at London’s Olympia. The end of an era. November 2013: EduGeek hits 1,000,000 forum posts June 2015: We attend ISTE at Philadelphia May 2017: Wannacry, an encryption virus, hits the globe. Working with Microsoft and others, we get a very concise and informative article out to help members make, and keep their systems safe July 2019: We now have over 100,000 members! April 2020: The covid lockdowns begin and EduGeek goes all out to help members suddenly having to setup remote learning and storage facilities and provide extra support for companies helping schools to get this up and running March 2022: We attend the first BETT since lockdown. A much smaller affair than usual and those of us that hadn’t caught covid previously all went down with it We gave away this NHS themed AFK badge during the show to celebrate their work during the ciovid crisis October 2022: EduGeek hosts its first post-covid EDIT Conference at the Royal Armories in Leeds March 2025: EduGeek upgrades the site, moving away from Vbulletin to the Invision Community platform, allowing us to offer much better facilities for members and sponsors.

Wave9 One of the UK’s fastest-growing Education Internet Service Providers, Wave 9 offers critical IT services to our customers. Our core services are managed Internet, Firewall, Cybersecurity, Web-Filtering and Monitoring as well as Telephony and LAN/WIFI services. 100% focused on the Education sector, we understand the challenges that Schools and Trusts experience and work with over 900 schools throughout the UK. With an unbeatable focus on customer service and satisfaction, we’re consistently praised for the quality of our services. Over 80% of our new customers come from referrals and over 98% renew with us – we’d welcome the opportunity to discuss our offers with you. We’re proud to have been an EduGeek sponsor and contributor for many years, and are please to help celebrate 20 years of edugeekery - long may it continue Click the link below and answer some easy-ish questions to be entered into our draw to win £150 of Amazon Vouchers www.wave9.co.uk/quiz Please use your work email to register/submit and there’s a short info form to complete. Yes, we’ll be sending you something market-y if we get round to it (no such thing as a free lunch after all), but I think we’ve sent a grand total of 2 marketing emails to our list in 15 years, so you won’t be bombarded. You can opt out anytime in any case, and who knows it may even be something you’re interested in, or even a chance to win another prize!

Win £500 from Bromcom – Share Your Story of Innovation in Education We’re launching a competition to spotlight how schools and trusts are using technology to improve outcomes, streamline operations, and empower their communities. Submit a short case study showing how you’ve used innovation to make a real difference. Whether you’re a Bromcom customer or not, we’d love to hear your story. There are four award categories, each with a £500 prize for the best entry. The first category is open to everyone, the rest are for Bromcom customers: AI in education – How AI is helping you work smarter, save time, or unlock new insights in your school or trust. (OPEN TO ALL) Timetabling & Options – Share how you’ve used Bromcom's Cloud wTimeTable and the Options module to streamline planning and empower student choice. (BROMCOM CUSTOMERS) Financial savings – Demonstrate how you’ve reduced costs, removed bolt-ons, or boosted efficiency using Bromcom’s all-in-one solution. (BROMCOM CUSTOMERS) Wildcard category (free choice) – A success story from any other part of Bromcom – whether that’s safeguarding, AI, attendance, parental engagement or Vision. (BROMCOM CUSTOMERS) What to submit: A written case study or video detailing your challenge, solution, and results. Screenshots or supporting visuals are optional but welcome. Send your entry to [email protected] with the subject line "EduGeek Competition" Who can enter: Any school or trust. Entries are welcome from all roles – IT leads, data managers, business managers, school leaders, or teachers. We’ll feature winning entries in our community and marketing channels (with your permission), so others can learn from your success

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Cloud Design Box helps schools modernise their digital environment using Microsoft 365. We build customised SharePoint intranets and Class Teams structures to streamline communication, document management, and teaching workflows. With MIS integration, automated provisioning, and education-focused support, we save IT teams time and reduce admin. From centralising policies to standardising subject sites, we improve security, access control, and collaboration - making Microsoft 365 work smarter. Win a £100 Amazon eGift Card as a prize by submitting info here

Win an Elgato Stream Deck Neo At Net-Ctrl, we specialise in delivering networking and physical security solutions tailored to the unique challenges faced by educational institutions Expertise and Experience: With over 20 years in the industry, we bring deep technical expertise and a proven track record in designing, deploying, and supporting robust IT and security systems. Powerful Partnerships: We are proud partners of industry leaders like Ruckus and Verkada, offering best-in-class solutions for high-performance wireless connectivity, simplified network management, and advanced physical security. Customer-Centric Approach: We prioritise long-term client relationships, offering dedicated support, seamless integration, and ongoing consultancy to ensure your technology investments deliver maximum value. To Enter simply send Net-Ctrl a PM titled "Competition" (CLOSES 18th of June, winner announced on the 19th)