====== Hardware Mentorship Program ======
This page contains a potential outline for helping students to build computers that are given out by the Byteworks EAC program FIXME provide a link.

====== Schedule ======
It's very important to provide a schedule for a mentorship program, not in terms of dates, but by assignments/accomplishments.  Some ideas for accomplishing the Hardware Mentorship Program is detailed as follows:

====== Introduction ======
Students would need to be introduced to the various areas of the Byteworks shop.
  * Workshop area
  * Zombie computers/hard drives, etc.
  * The basement

====== Safety ======
  * Safety first
  * Sign-off sheet for parents might be advisable.
  
====== Assessing Needs ======
Students should be introduced to the process that Byteworks uses for determining how many computers we'll need.

====== Process ======
Students need to be introduced to the process by which computers are built.  A basic overview would be presented, such "We have X zombies here, and X cases here, X monitors here, etc.
  * Collecting computers, parts, etc.
  * Students could be shown how to accept a computer for donation, and what to do with the parts, etc.

====== Starting an EAC Computer ======
  * Memory
  * Hard drive
  * Loading from Zombie
  * Testing
  * Approval


====== TODO/Issues ======
  * We need to determine how many students could complete this project at one time.  This program would be more of a "class" structure, where individual students would need to do A -> B -> C, rather than a project structure, such as "I'm going to build a video game".



====== See Also ======

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