The Computing department here at Kincorth Academy has four computer rooms - three of these rooms are equipped with Acorn A3000 machines and one room is furnished with a variety of IBM compatible computer systems, including multimedia systems and access to the Internet. Five of the PCs are networked. All three Acorn rooms form part of a Ethernet network with central storage and printing facilities.
All pupils receive there own floppy disk on which they store there work.
The fourth room is also used by other departments to support there courses. The department offers a wide range of courses designed to cater for all levels of ability and experience. The above courses are designed to meet 5 - 14 Information Technology needs. The department also offers a wide range of 40 hour Scotvec National Certificates. After following the standard grade course, many of our pupils go on to take up work in jobs involving computers in local buisnesses, others go on to follow a course of study at Aberdeen College and from there are placed in computer related jobs.