As reported by Esports Insider, Reigate Grammar School has launched a high-tech esports hub with Corsair’s support, blending gaming education with hands-on experience
Reigate Grammar School, a private school situated in the rolling greenery of Surrey, England, has launched a state-of-the-art esports hub on its campus.
The hub includes 24 fully kitted gaming PCs in a renovated IT room that will act as both a teaching space and a gaming facility for the school’s esports club. It makes Reigate Grammar School one of a select few high schools in the UK to have such a venue.
The esports hub was made possible by a donation from Andy Paul, CEO of gaming hardware manufacturer Corsair, who attended the school and wanted to give back to the students there. Corsair donated its gaming PC build kits as well as top-notch curved gaming monitors, keyboards, controllers and gaming chairs to use in the room.
Paul worked with the school to find a solution: to donate top of the line PCs to plug those keyboards into, alongside all the other gear that comes with an authentic gaming setup. Paul and other Corsair employees held a workshop with the schoolchildren, who built the PCs themselves under Corsair’s guidance. Each computer case is signed by the kids who built it. The school, meanwhile, paid to renovate the room to modernise it and adopt a gaming aesthetic.
Reigate Grammar School has shown a progressive attitude to integrating esports into its school, with internal support for the programme allowing it to overcome a common hurdle — sceptical parents and stakeholders. “Getting parents aware of the benefits of esports is the main thing. And that’s what’s happening here,” Paul said.
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