The Road Less Traveled

As you know, instead of doing the daily work for computer applications, I have been doing as computer recycling and refurbishing project. I am going to be honest, when we first started, it was just to get out of work. I did not really see the purpose of making old computers usable. Well, what a fool I was. We started with the appearance stuff, making a logo, making a wiki, making a blog, making a pamphlet, which really did not make me feel differently about computer recycling. However our project really began when we went to Goodwill. We spent three hours just learning about computers there are it was critical in our project as well as my understanding of it. I realized how old and broken down computers really can be fixed up into working, and working well at that, which can be a very important resource to some. Recently we broke down a computer in class and have researched individually all the things in each part that can be toxic. The moral side of giving computers to those without them is enough to make the project worthwhile, but so is the environmental side that computers are mother earth's kryptonite. Also, lately we have been planning our new plan of attack towards computerless homes. Instead of setting up shop at McCallum, we are trying to strike a deal with Goodwill that gives them our time, and computers, and in return we get a percentage of the computers we helped refurbish directly back to the McCallum community. We have had to plan ways to find those that need to get computers, how to get computers to them, and what Goodwill needs from us. All this planning has taken up our time recently. To actually have sometihng to show, we are in the process of using a computer we took apart, to make a display pointing out each toxic thing in each part, which we will use for presentations of why our project is important.
This whole thing really has made me realize the environmental and personal issues that our project and computer recycling and refurbishing on a whole can solve. In today's world, our planet really does need all the help it can get and the electronics that have the potential to be pollutants are just to much for our poor planet to bear. Also, my daily life would be far harder without a computer and I learned how much a difference can be made even with just us couple kids getting computers refurbished and donated to local families. On the technical side I have learned how to take apart a computer into individual parts, I know what all the parts now are and what they do. I know how to run diagnostics on the parts to see if they work, and with all the pieces, I could build the computer back up into working shape. I know this is long, but this project has just been very substantial to me. The tek that is the most fitting for this project would be 2. (A) apply computer technology to individual or community problems