With your donation to this project, you will help our school move forward in two simultaneously on-going projects as we prepare for return to campus in-person learning. The first is the effort to upgrade the 10+ year-old fleet of desktop computer setups that students use for various computing and multimedia workloads. Slow is the most common complaint on these machines. The second is to harness the interest of some students in forming a geek squad on our campus to support various tech needs, starting with taking apart and building/re-building desktops, which is the entry point to learn about how the hardware works before going into software.
In this project, students will be learning about the various parts of a computer and how they work together to produce the working screen that they see on the monitor. They will learn about the CPU, GPU, motherboard, RAM, drives, power supply, etc. and then moving to software such as machine health monitoring and drivers for printers. As the tech lead for the school, I am hoping to train up students so I can deploy them to troubleshoot when various problems with tech occur on campus. I am also hoping that the geek squad will be able to perform repairs so that our school does not have to waste money buying new computers to replace laptops that can be easily fixed.
This particular item will be used for the build that will run Matlab, simulations, video-editing and creative content making, and basic word processing.
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With your donation to this project, you will help our school move forward in two simultaneously on-going projects as we prepare for return to campus in-person learning. The first is the effort to upgrade the 10+ year-old fleet of desktop computer setups that students use for various computing and multimedia workloads. Slow is the most common complaint on these machines. The second is to harness the interest of some students in forming a geek squad on our campus to support various tech needs, starting with taking apart and building/re-building desktops, which is the entry point to learn about how the hardware works before going into software.
In this project, students will be learning about the various parts of a computer and how they work together to produce the working screen that they see on the monitor. They will learn about the CPU, GPU, motherboard, RAM, drives, power supply, etc. and then moving to software such as machine health monitoring and drivers for printers. As the tech lead for the school, I am hoping to train up students so I can deploy them to troubleshoot when various problems with tech occur on campus. I am also hoping that the geek squad will be able to perform repairs so that our school does not have to waste money buying new computers to replace laptops that can be easily fixed.
This particular item will be used for the build that will run Matlab, simulations, video-editing and creative content making, and basic word processing.
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