A short introductory history

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The Technical High School at Chiavari was founded by Royal Decree no. 1700, on October 16, 1924 and it was named "In Memoria dei Morti per la Patria" (" In memory of those who died for their country").

"Chiavari Economic Society" had already been suggesting for some years to found a high school "to prepare the young for commerce" and at the end of the First World War it was possible to carry out that idea founding a Municipal Technical School, thanks to financial aids from the "Economic Society" itself, local councils and private people.

This school started operating in the school year 1923\24 with about one hundred students. In the following year the school was taken over by the State and it has been present in the area of Chiavari ever since as an important cultural and formative institution.

After the Second World War, a course for surveyors was added to the one for accountants , since there were none between Genoa and La Spezia.

As years went by, the school grew in size and it was necessary to build a new building early in the 60's and to open a branch at Rapallo which , after some time, became an indipendent Technical High School named after Fortunio Liceti.

Nowadays the Technical High School at Chiavari has 32 classes, 15 belonging to the course for accountants and 17 to the one for surveyors, which are located in two buildings: in the main one there are classrooms to accomodate all the students attending the course for accountants and three forms of the course for surveyors; the other forms of the course for surveyors are in a building in Castagnola St. which was completely remade in 1991;
This school year there are about 670 students.

The school has good didactic equipments such as:

A laboratory with a didactic network of 25 computers for such subjects as wordprocessing in LAN Fast Ethernet.
A laboratory with 26 computers for such subjects as book-keeping and accounting in LAN Fast Ethernet.
A laboratory with 27 computers, in LAN fast Ethernet, connected to the Internet (2 Mb) for the course for surveyors.
A proxy server.
An Internet Server (Web, FTP, Email).
Two Domain Controllers, a Print Server and a File Server with Windows Server 2003-2008
A laboratory with 26 computers, plotter and C.A.D. for the course for surveyors.
A laboratory with 15 computers, connected to the Internet (2 Mb).
A chemistry and applied chemistry laboratory for the course for surveyors.
A chemistry and science laboratory for the course for accountants.
A chemistry and natural science laboratory for the course for accountants.
A topographical laboratory with a number of computerized equipments and total stations.
A Global Positioning System station.
A physics laboratory for the course for surveyors.
Two multimedia rooms for audiovisual aids, containing TV sets, VHS and DVD players, overhead projectors.
A central library housing also large collections of newspapers, periodicals, slides and videos and a computer connected with the Internet.
Thematic libraries for the different laboratories.
Data display, portable video projector, DVD Home theater.
Two drawing classrooms for the course for surveyors.
Two gymns, one of which equipped with fitness machines.

Both the buildings are suitable for physically handicapped students' attendance.

The secretaries' as well as the principal's and assistant principal 's offices are equipped with a network of computers and both administration and assignation of terms' marks are computerized.

Every year a lot of educational and business trips relating to the different specializations are effected. A number of students attending the fourth forms take part in stages of vocational training with State-run organizations, firms and professional people.

by prof. Rosa Maria Colombi