Donations

Needed: Donated Computer Equipment!

Although the Carnody Middle School PC Computer Lab has 37 workstations, only 24 of these workstations has Pentium CPU's with networking, printing and Internet capabilities. And two of these computers have rather slow Pentium 100 MHz CPU's, one has a 486 DX-66 CPU and another one has Pentium 166 MHz CPU. The goal is to obtain a minimum of 32 Pentium II workstations as we regularly have up to 30 students in each class period. Therefore, Pentium PC computers for donations are needed to replace up to nine 386 and eight 486 PC SX computers all with Windows 3.1 so every student workstation can be connected to the Internet via a Windows 95 working environment and the latest version of Netscape to access the daily instructional material posted on this web page. With these newly donated Pentium workstations being connected to the school network, Dr. Data anticipates incorporating web design into the curriculum.

Previous Donors: Thank You For Improvements!

Federal Government: HPIIISI laser printer that serves as a wonderful black & white networking printer with a speed of 17 pages per minute. New retail price was $7,000. In addition, Dr. Data also received two HP scanners that might be used to give our PC computer lab more versatility. To make it work, we need two SCII cards to connect the these scanners to designated computers. Please call Dr. Data at 303-982-8930 if you have one or two ISA type SCSII cards available for donation.

A Gateway 200 Pentium 200 MHz MMX computer has been recently received from Mr. Darren O'Toole, a parent of one our 7th grade computer class students. This computer is used every day in class even though it is not connected to the school networking system!

Ms. Hartzell, a parent of a 7th grade student at Carmody, recently donated 35+ brand-new computer mice pads for use in the PC lab.

A special, warm appreciation is extended to Intrepid Oil & Gas, L.L.C. of 1801 Broadway, Suite 800, Denver, Colorado 80202 for donating six Pentium computers (100, 120 and 133 MHz CPU's, one 486 DX-66 computer, one HP Deskjet 1200 C color networking printer and a NEC Color Synch 17" monitor to the PC Lab at Carmody on October 14, 1999. Mr. Hugh E. Harvey, Jr., a Carmody parent, is responsible for these most generous donations. For only $200, Dr. Data was able to replace missing component parts of these six computers with 4 soundcards, 2 CD-ROM's, 2 ethernet cards, 1 hard disk drive, 1 video card and RAM). And for only $252, the HP printer was upgraded to a full networking printer with an ethernet card.

The University of Denver, and especially with the V.I.P. assistance of Mr. Jim Akers, have also been very generous by donating numerous pieces of computer equipment including CPU's, motherboards, montors, hard disk drives, floppy disk drives, RAM, CD-ROM's, power supplies, keyboards, computer cases, cables, and many other essential pieces of technology equipment in maintaining a PC computer lab in which 17 of the 38 workstations in the PC lab are represented by used, donated equipment. The latest acquisition donated by the University of Denver is being donated to Dakota Ridge High School as a computer music lab after these six computers are being rebuilt.

Westchester Elementary School has also been a receipt of the computers from the University of Denver as the music department now has five Pentium computer music workstations.

Countrey S______, an 8th grade student, has been designing colorful and slick looking award certificates. Over 50 Carmody students have already been awarded certifcates for the following categories: Best Typist, Hardest Worker, Most Improved Student, Eagle Award for an A+ grading period grade, and many more.

Evan C, an 8th grade student, has been fixing computers almost on a daily basis after school by replacing hardware, adding RAM to all Pentium workstations, and upgrading software. Evan C. will be a student assistant for Dr. Data winter semester.

Did you know that Dr. Data originally taught at Carmody in 1993 with an Apple IIe computer lab? And in 1996, the Martin-Marietta Company donated twenty 386 computers with color monitors. One year later, the school district purchased 20 Pentium II computers thus praving the way for a Windows 95 PC lab for instruction.

All we need are a few more Pentium II computer donations for web making, videoconferencing and other creative
Internet-based instruction which ultimately can be permanently incorporated in the 7th grade computer class curriculum. With each additional donation, one 386 computer can also be recycled to an elementary school along with donations to the Language Arts department here at Carmody Middle School.