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| 1996 |
July-August
Meet to discuss Tech Corps Wisconsin role within Task Force, plan activities, pilot projects, write developmental charter.
September
A one server and one client Intranet/Intranet system is installed at Fratt Elementary school in Racine. Joint project between Tech Corps WI, Microsoft, and RUSD. Picked up our first four corporate sponsors.
October
Developmental charter draft is accepted by the national USTC organization.
Tech Corps Wisconsin proposes a 16 November pilot project to the Racine school district (RUSD) to provide Internet access for six classrooms at Gifford elementary school. TCW recruits local sponsors, volunteers and presents this project to the school staff, and the district administration.
November
Tech Corps WI has now joined forces with Ameritech (WW kits), RUSD (the local school district) and local 152, to not only help make this pilot a reality but to expand it to include wiring the entire school. (900 kids, 40 classrooms).
TCW received a donation offer from a corporation for one-hundred and fifty 286 laptop computers and approximately seventy-five 386 desktop computer systems to be distributed locally. This is our start into the computer refurbishing and repurpose business.
Pilot project completed on Saturday, 21 November. On Monday, 900 elementary school children will come back to a school that is fully wired for the 21st Century. Only one classroom at each grade level, the library and the lab will have Internet access, but the change will be significant nonetheless. As a result of this project we made the Racine local paper with a nice article that made people aware of Wiring Wisconsin and Tech Corps Wisconsin.
We had parents, administrators, businessmen, school board members, teachers and other school district employees all working together with us for the kids. We wired almost all 40 rooms, but didn't have the time to complete the termination or connect the computers. This will occur in the next few weeks, along with mentoring the teachers, and on going training and technical support functions.
December
Tech Corps Wisconsin receives 200 copies of Windows 95 donated by Microsoft to distribute to the schools of the state for teacher professional development. Approximately one-hundred laptop computers are refurbished by volunteers during the Christmas/New Year holiday. Volunteers included, students, teachers, parents and I.S. professionals.
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