I saw an item about this on TVNZ news last night, but couldn’t find any mention on their website. But it turns out Newshub did a report on the project a week ago <https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/technology/2022/05/new-project-to-teach-kiwi-kids-to-refurbish-computers-which-they-can-keep.html>. It involves primary-school-age children working with donated computers, learning how to dismantle them and fix them up. And then they have a working device that they get to take home:
As part of West Tech, students as young as eight years old are taught how to diagnose issues, disassemble and then refurbish components in order to create an 'as-new' device.
They are then gifted to the students, giving them refurbished tech products to help further their education.
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With just seven hours of learning time, students were able to learn to refurbish defunct devices ...
I’m no hardware expert, so all I get to say is “wow”.
One of the groups involved in this is youth charity Zeal <https://zeal.nz/>. They have centres in various places around the North Island (including Hamilton), though this particular project only seems to be at the West Auckland one.
Looking for the tag “Zeal Digital” brings up several projects: <https://zeal.nz/tag/zeal-digital/>.
Very cool! Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 (office) +64 (7) 577-5304 (home office) https://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/