Runner



For my action plan, I volunteered at Kramden Institute in Durham, North Carolina. The institute specializes in refurbishing donated or nonfunctional computers and gadgets; they give these computers away to deserving families. I attended the mini-geek-athon they held. I worked in the demonstration center, where we showed the families how to use the computers. I was a "runner", which means that I had to take the computers from the demonstration room into the customer's car. There was a surplus of 10 families that bought computers that day, and a lot of times it was their first computer. It was really fulfilling watching the families interact with the computers and asking questions. The action plan has a lot to do with APES, as a lot of the refurbished computers, if not taken in by Kramden, would be electronic waste (e-waste), which can be degrading to the environment.