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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