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The Bridging The Gap Student Computer Program is a student-driven project. These outdated computers no longer met school district standards, but we still wished to conserve them as a valuable resource to the community. As a solution, our high school students placed these refurbished computers in the homes of Kent School District students who didn’t have a home computer before. This was all part of a community outreach and educational project to develop student leadership and technical skills while providing equal access to technology for all Kent students. This is also another way that we are helping students meet the No Child Left Behind requirement that students must be technology literate.
2009 ~ 2010
The first Bridging the Gap computer deployment for this school year took place February 27th, 2010 at the Birch Creek Youth Recreation Center. For this first deployement alone, there were fifty five student volunteers and three adult volunteers. Together the volunteers helped to distribute computers to 156 families in our community, affecting a total of 318 students. On May 22nd, the last of the two Bridging the Gap deployments for this year took place at the Birch Creek Family Center. 20 student volunteers and 15 adult volunteers showed up to help at the deployment. As a result of the time and effort put forth by volunteers for the two deployments this year, the results are incredible. A total of 234 families in our community received desktop computers. For many families, it was their first computer. The program overall affected 531 students.
2008 ~ 2009
The deployments, which took place at the Springwood youth center had an impact 543 students strong during this school year. With 55 student volunteers and 5 adult volunteers, Bridging the Gap was able to provide 271 families with their own home computer. Like the previous years, the high school student volunteers were a major attribution
to the success of the 2008-2009 school year. For 145 high school students, work for the program began before the deployment. These students worked on refurbishing computers right in their own classes, giving them an opportunity to develop real-world skills in the technology field. At the actual deployments, students of all different backgrounds and skills were able to help with everything from cleaning the computers, to helping train parents and students.
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