October 2019 AZ Strut Newsletter

Published: Mon, 10/28/19

THE AWARD FOR BEST THANK YOU PHOTO EVER

Learning Point, a 501c3, provides free tutoring and interest-based classes to homeschool students. AZ StRUT donated 12 laptops to their organization for coding, robotics and app building classes. A week later we received this photo in the mail - actual real mail!

Refurbished computers from AZ StRUT go on to have new lives and create new learning. Imagine what these young minds will create with access to technology.

Techie Empowered Women

AZ StRUT and Fresh Start Women’s Foundation have teamed up this year to empower over 65 women in a bright future in the tech world. From taking apart and putting back together a working desktop to loading an operating system on a laptop, they spent six weeks in our Techie Lab learning and demonstrating new skills. Each of the learners earned an AZ StRUT refurbished computer to take home. “I’m going home to show my kids that I know how to use and repair my own computer. I can’t believe it! This is MY computer.”

What’s happening in Environmental Education?

Recently our Executive Director Tom Mehlert attended the Arizona Association of Environmental Education Conference. “We are developing training that addresses “Green Tech” and Circular Economy aspects of reuse. This might be called urban environmental education. One of our first training camps will address the limited reuse of rare earth elements in smartphones. Of the 30 elements used in the manufacture of a smartphone, only 3 are recycled!

Reuse Reuse Reuse

This is used, but not unusable! We put these in the hands of the future when we put them in the hands of kids who can’t afford their own. It’s what we do.
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