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Mr. Juang from Oakland, CA is requesting instructional technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Geek Squad in Training

Help me give my students a good motherboard so that they can build a computer that can be used by the class for years to come.

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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

After a year of distance learning, a lot of students are tired of exceedingly slow Chromebooks that have limited functionalities and computing power. Some of them have also picked up interest in building, repairing, and upgrading tech equipment. I am hoping to meet this interest by having students build desktop computers that can run software smoothly and won't overheat after 15 minutes or so of use.

My Project

With your donation to this project, you will help our school move forward in two simultaneously on-going projects as we prepare for return to campus in-person learning. The first is the effort to upgrade the 10+ year-old fleet of desktop computer setups that students use for various computing and multimedia workloads. Slow is the most common complaint on these machines. The second is to harness the interest of some students in forming a geek squad on our campus to support various tech needs, starting with taking apart and building/re-building desktops, which is the entry point to learn about how the hardware works before going into software.

In this project, students will be learning about the various parts of a computer and how they work together to produce the working screen that they see on the monitor.

They will learn about the CPU, GPU, motherboard, RAM, drives, power supply, etc. and then moving to software such as machine health monitoring and drivers for printers. As the tech lead for the school, I am hoping to train up students so I can deploy them to troubleshoot when various problems with tech occur on campus. I am also hoping that the geek squad will be able to perform repairs so that our school does not have to waste money buying new computers to replace laptops that can be easily fixed.

This particular item will be used for the build that will run Matlab, simulations, video-editing and creative content making, and basic word processing.

Mr. Juang Life Academy Grades 9-12

Equity Focus

At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Oakland, CA View local requests

Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
ASUS Prime X570-Pro AM4 Zen 3 Ryzen 5000 & 3rd Gen Ryzen ATX Motherboard with PCIe Gen4, Dual M.2 HDMI, SATA 6GB/s USB 3.2 Gen 2 ATX Motherboard • Amazon Business $247.04 1 $247.04

Materials cost

$247.04

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $22.60

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.71

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$303.35

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$53.53

Total project goal

$356.88

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $356.88

1 Donor

-$303.35

Donations toward project cost

-$303.35

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$0.00

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$53.53

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 $0.00

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