The School, one of the oldest to offer technical and vocational education in the country, marked its 5th year of ICT Club establishment in the presence of teaching and support staff and invited guests on July 27, 2002 in its auditorium. According to Ato Girma Zelleke, ICT Instructor and its President, the Club was formed in 1990 E.C. and became operational in 1991 E.C. The number of its membership varies from year to year and had 200 and 108 teacher and student members during the academic year of 2001/2002.

The Club has 13 PCs that it acquired from different donors. The Netherlands Embassy granted 7 PCs through the personal contact and rigorous follow-up of Ato Fikre Tekle - who had been teaching Secretarial Science until his recent retirement. The UNDP had also donated 5 PCs while 1 PC was obtained from the Association of the School's former students residing in the USA on the occasion of its 75th Anniversary.

According to Ato Girma Zelleke, there has been adequate coverage of ICT education for students who have been specializing in ICT with full day attendance and an allotted period of 19 per week, while business students in Bookkeeping, Secretarial Science, Marketing, Supplies and Banking together with other occupations are left with only 1 period per week. Ato Girma was of the opinion that business students that are expected to join the business world should be accorded due consideration to give them sufficient period in order to raise their basic concepts and skills in ICT applications. On the other hand, adequate training was given in Introduction to Computers, MS Windows and MS Word for phase out students. It has, however, been difficult to conduct regular ICT classes for non-vocational and non-technical students who attend in shifts due to inconvenience of time. The Club has been trying to fill the gap by conducting classes for interested students on weekends. Thus, voluntary teachers have been taking training sessions in the morning and afternoon shifts of Saturdays and Sundays for 26 trainees per shift.

It has also been able to arrange training for 83 teachers in 5 rounds in computer applications, all graduating with PC Diplomas. Ethio-Computer & Vocational Training Centre conducted 2 and Infonet Computer P.L.C. 3 rounds, the latter promising to conduct another round of training. The Club was also grateful to the British Council for the provision of training on Internet operation for the teachers.

According to Ato Girma, the teachers have been able to develop concepts and deploy their skills to prepare teaching materials, examination papers and maintain student records on the computer. Some were also accessing the Internet until it was disconnected due to rising cost. Some have even been motivated to join the University to pursue advanced studies.

Ato Girma has pointed out some pressing problems that have been affecting the ICT education in general. One major problem has been the incompatibility of the time allotted to cover the ICT curriculum. He said that this problem should be rectified with proper discussion between the educators who set the curriculum and the educational administrators. On the other hand, the interruption of class activities due to irregular operations of the PCs was another major problem that inhibited the proper flow of education coupled with the long delay of PC service men to appear from the supplier to undertake the maintenance. In his opinion, this problem could be reversed by establishing a central repair workshop and assigning a repair team trained from among potential teachers or from among the members of the School's support staff. In his opinion, this persistent problem would go worse as soon the one-year guarantee expires shortly.