> We have talked before about the mentorship kids learning how to build > computers -- just Saturday Caleb expressed an interest in starting to > help us with that after the first of the year.
There are about four or five kids that want to help build computers. They're mostly the ones who come into Byteworks every Saturday and mess around w/the Internet. > I think it would be very possible for the mentorship kids to "cash in" > their graduate computer for a more powerful one (i.e., a Pentium 4 that > meets your requirements), especially if, in doing so, they helped to > build computers for other children. > > What do you think? Very good idea. I think that we should use a whiteboard or a clipboard with the various students' names on it, and monitor their progress. We should give them some kind of a goal. (Perhaps if they build X number of computers, or serve X number of hours in the shop, then they can pick one of the machines that they built, or build a custom one)? Matthew mentioned that he's been gathering ideas for how to get those kids into the workshop, so I'm sure he's got some good ideas. --Nate On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 8:41 AM, Theresa Kehoe <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Posted by: "nneff" [email protected] nneff >> Date: Mon Dec 15, 2008 7:06 pm ((PST)) > >> >> I'm getting chills typing this message. >> >> I've been looking for a simple programming tool to use for mentorship >> class for a long time. >> >> Here's a requirements page, if anyone has any other suggestions: >> http://wiki.bworks.org/beginner_programming_tools > > Nate, I like your comments -- one thing I noted was the system > requirements section: > > Linux compatible > 256 MB of RAM > Pentium 4 CPU or ~800+ MHz processor > > At first I was thinking that would be a problem -- we are still using > PIII with 550MHz or better processor as the spec for the childrens > graduate machine. > > But then I got to thinking ... there are only a few mentorship kids, as > opposed to the number of children in the EAC course. > > We have talked before about the mentorship kids learning how to build > computers -- just Saturday Caleb expressed an interest in starting to > help us with that after the first of the year. > > I think it would be very possible for the mentorship kids to "cash in" > their graduate computer for a more powerful one (i.e., a Pentium 4 that > meets your requirements), especially if, in doing so, they helped to > build computers for other children. > > What do you think? > > Theresa > >
