Marywood University

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    • March 13, 2015 Work Site: Construction Junction Number of Volunteers: 45 Volunteer Hours Logged: 258 Details: Large team of volunteers from Marywood University of Scranton PA … as well as a few from Case Western University and  CMU … and North Allegheny High School students,  continued large scale Spanish re-imaging of G3 iMacs for Central America.

    King’s College

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      • March 6, 2015 Work Site: Construction Junction Number of Volunteers: 28 Volunteer Hours Logged: 168 Details: A group of volunteers from King’s College helped re-image machines to Spanish while our regulars did, well, regular Friday things!

      Steve Wozniak … bottom of the org chart as an engineer

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        • Apple: Steve Wozniak on the Early Years With Steve Jobs – Businessweek http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-12-04/apple-steve-wozniak-on-the-early-years-with-steve-jobs Many thanks to Computer Reach board member Roberta Jones for locating this short video from a Dec 4, 2014 interview at Bloomberg with Steve Wozniak.  Personally one of my heroes ! Enjoy watching Steve live with an Apple I and soldering gun …...

        Apple iBooks in Guatemala

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          • Hi Dave, We are in Guatemala City after a very successful mission trip to the village of Aguacate.  The girl in the picture is a very grateful community health care worker who is using a Computer Reach iBook computer to record the Fluoride treatments that we trained her to conduct on a weekly basis at the local...

          Kwaio Archive Project

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            • When Computer Reach adopted its name, no one could have had any idea just how far that “reach” would extend. And yet, our most recent initiative—to deliver computers to the Kwaio people, an indigenous group living in a remote area of the Solomon Islands—is dramatic proof that our mission is indeed a global one and...

            Self Organized Learning Environments

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              • “Self Organized Learning Environments” SOLE installation in Carrick neighborhood, a new group of Crestfield Campers and the CJ Friday crew with a bunch of new faces. All are included with this weeks post.

              Malawi Linux Laptops

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                • Recipient Organization:  (CCAP Mangochi) The Church of Central Africa Presbyterian Mangochi Location:  Mangochi, Malawi Mission:  “Our  mission is as follows: – the proclamation of the gospel for the salvation of mankind; the shelter, nurture and spiritual fellowship of the of the children of God; the promotion of divine worship; the preservation of the truth; the promotion of social righteousness...

                CJ and SOLE

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                  • Part 1: New volunteers at Computer Reach at Construction Junction and a new project in Pittsburgh serving Bhutanese refugees called the Pittsburgh SOLE .. Funding by The Fisher Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation. Part 2: The S.O.L.E. concept was pioneered by Sugata Mitra of India, now professor at Newcastle University in the UK. Computer Reach...

                  Argosy University Volunteers

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                    • Work Date:  May 2, 2014 Work Site:  Computer Reach Warehouse Number of Volunteers:  14 Volunteer Hours Logged:  88 Work Accomplished:  Prepared Apple eMacs for the Indian Nations here in Pittsburgh, as well as Linux computers destined for Ghana, West Africa Volunteer Organization:  Argosy University Mission:  “At Argosy University, our passion is teaching and learning.  We develop professional professional competence, provide...

                    Pittsburgh Post Gazette

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                      • TechMan: Grassroots effort to give computers to those who can’t afford them March 10, 2014 11:13 PM By Ced Kurtz / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette One of the most ambitious programs to rehabilitate used computers and get them back into the community at low or no cost is concentrated here in Western Pennsylvania. Computer Reach has worked...