Sharon Middleton, director at Makewaves, shares their journey to the cloud and how they are transforming education in the cloud by helping students transition out of education and into the workforce. She shares details on their Badge the World program and how AWS helps support the technology and make it usable for schools. The session highlights the education technology journey and how the cloud is playing an instrumental role in enabling transformation for 5000 schools and 10,000 students. It also describes how the cloud solved speed, reliability, and capacity challenges Makewaves was facing during a flood and high peak traffic surges. Security was a key factor in the solution. Learn more here: http://oak.ctx.ly/r/3eatg