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HIGHER EDUCATION · GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY

# 165 Pods behind every display in Horizon Hall

Six floors and 218,000 square feet built around active learning, with a Pod behind every display in the building.

![GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY](https://www.mersive.com/cases/gmu-mark.png)

THE NUMBERS

- 165 Pods in one building
- 28 active-learning classrooms

At a glance

| Scale | Products | Partner | Era |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 165 Pods, one building | Pods + Cloud | Convergent Technologies Design Group | Gen 3-era deployment · Horizon Hall opened 2021 |

## The challenge

George Mason set a target for Horizon Hall: at least 30% of classrooms supporting active-learning pedagogy. That demanded wireless sharing, BYOD from any device, technology needing little to no training, and security and scalability on the university network.

## The deployment

Working with Convergent Technologies Design Group, GMU placed 165 Pods across 28 classrooms, 15 collaboration spaces, 9 conference rooms, 8 huddle spaces and the transitional spaces between them, in a six-floor building opened in January 2021.

> Behind every display in this building, there is a Solstice Pod. It's supporting the teaching and learning here, the meeting rooms, and the informal spaces outside the classrooms.

Crystal Clemons, M.Ed, Director, Classroom and Lab Technologies, GMU

## The outcome

Touchless collaboration throughout the building on one standard: faculty and students share from any device with little to no training. The integrator credits the simple, familiar interface and the fact that Solstice was already a known quantity on campus.

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