Yesterday we welcomed back, for the third time this summer, volunteers from Crestfield Camp in Slippery Rock, PA. Liz Carras and her Crestfield Camp and Conference Center summer campers came for a Monday afternoon session of cleaning laptop power cords and outer cases. Grimy work indeed, that required many bottles of Simple Green and Goo...
As our world becomes more tech-savvy, outdated devices are often thrown away. Many of these items have valuable components that can be recycled and reused for many years to come. This is why the e-waste management business is bigger than ever. In a recent Earth911.com post, they say, “It’s not a glamorous business, but it...
Dave Sevick and Beth Lynn Eicher of Computer Reach are at the Ohio LinuxFest 2012 in Columbus, Ohio today and tomorrow to present on our upcoming Ghana mission. This conference includes many interesting speakers and topics, you can read more about them here. The title of Beth Lynn’s talk is: Computer Reach, Ghana, and Free...
Last night we attended the 17th Annual Child Abuse Prevention Month Awards and Appreciation Benefit, and were honored to receive the ‘Community Champion Award!’ Here are some pictures of the award: And some of our information, featured in the event’s pamphlet: When the goal for the day is getting enough food for the children in your care,...
On Saturday, May 19, 2012, Computer Reach had 24 volunteers helping with our Edubuntu Linux project. We created 46 new Linux computer desktop bundles and deployed 5 new PXE-Boot Servers, totaling 51 computers! We also did a host of other warehouse projects with packing materials in addition to the Clonezilla imaging. In the video below,...
We recently had the privilege of helping an academy in Ghana get up-to-date with some new laptops. Here’s the story: Background The Street Academy (www.thestreetacademy.webs.com) received 5 Linux Edubuntu laptops from ComputeReach and its partners at the very end of March 2012. This was possible thanks to the generous donation of our laptop sponsor, Mike...
This is a picture of ComputeReach giving computers to our staff at an orphanage in Churachandpur, Manipur, India. It’s in the northeast corner of India, east of Bangladesh and just west of Myanmar. From left to right is Don Vice from Lafayette, IN; Leslie Swensen of Churchill, PA; R. Sang, from India; R. Ruata, the superintendent of...
Starting this January, Pennsylvania residents will be required to properly recycle electronic devices. According to The Pennsylvania Covered Device Recycling Act, which goes into effect January 24, 2013, residents and trash collectors will be required to recycle computers, laptops, monitors, televisions and any other “covered” device. This means that you will no longer be able...
On April 19th, ComputeReach had the honor of being a finalist for the 2012 Jefferson Awards for Public Service. The six finalists were presented during the ceremony, and the winner became Pittsburgh’s nominee for the national Jacqueline Kennedy Onasis award. Here’s some more information about the award: In 1972, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Senator Robert Taft...
Last Saturday, we rallied a team of three volunteers to refresh the OS9 iMac lab of eleven computers in the Hill District section of Pittsburgh. For the last month we’ve been slowly making our way back to the few BJWL sites that do not have Mac OS X or Edubuntu Linux installed, but rather a...
