Soham+Saturday+Mini+Geekathon

The activity that I went to was the Saturday Mini Geek-a-thon event held on the first Saturday of the month at Kramden. On this day there are 2 shifts, a morning shift and an afternoon shift, once you arrive for your shift you are split up into groups to complete different tasks, for this Geek-a-thon the activities were break down (my favorite), cleaning and prepping, testing, and inventory. Luckily I was put on break down, on break down you are given computers that do not work or are too old to be useful to someone, then we scrap the computer for parts that are important such as the CPU, storage, and RAM, as well as various other components and recycle the other stuff like the mother board, heat syncs, etc. And then once we are done we put the empty chassis back together and put it to the side to be re-used. This event is related environmental science because in the 21st century a new type of pollution that humans will have to deal with is e-waste, and Kramden and other similar organizations can help alleviate that waste by reusing components and recycling the waste. Something impressive was how much one computer could give back to us, in terms of parts to reuse that would otherwise be thrown out.