TechLingo D-Day

On 24 April (Wednesday), all of us woke up in the early morning and gather at the bus stop in front of kk8 at 7 a.m.

Then, before going on bus, we have a rough head count and ask everyone to write down their name before boarding the bus.

At 7.30 a.m. , we departed to SMKBDP.
On the bus, again Jason has a short brief on what to do in the school afterwards.
About  8.00 a.m. , we reach the school and start doing our assigned task.

I have been assigned to Windows Reinstallation team to help the school to repair the spoiled laptops. We do whatever we can to save the laptops like factory reset, formatting the computer, upgrading the laptops to latest Windows definition of its version, installing software such as Netbeans, Microsoft Office, PyCharm, and Scratch 2.0 for the school laptops.

Meanwhile, other teams are doing PC Assembly, Mural Drawing, facilitators and photographer.
All of our members have taken up different roles and works together, contribute whatever we can to the school, to the students. 😉

👆Discussing what-to-do... 💪💪💪

👆 Checking the laptops and identify+ labeling what's the problem and the respective solutions.

Then, Jason had briefed about how to do factory reset for the slow response laptops before proceeding to further installation of application. However, the factory reset takes quite a long time.Therefore, we are able to work on few computers at a time.

While other of our team started doing with the factory reset for slow response laptop, Jason and me had tried to upgrade a laptop to Windows 10 and see how's the result.

After a long-waited 2 and a half hours, the laptop finally finished the upgrade. It works well, smoother than it used to compare to Windows 7, however Jason and I decided not to upgrade the rest to Windows 10 due to it takes a lot of time and the main priority for our team to repair the laptops, make it able to function properly and have the needed software for education purpose. 😊Therefore, we decided to do Windows 7 upgrade for the rest.

It's about 10 o'clock in the morning, we realized a lot of the spoiled laptops are due to they have administrative password and get locked, we can't perform any tasks on the laptops if we do not remove the password. So, we start to look for the solution online and try to remove the laptops password in order to repair all of them.

We have found some solution online and we try to do it and thanks god - successfully we have did it and able to rescue more laptops.

It's about the noon.

👆 The laptops that have been done repaired are not much. Due to learning to solve the password problem have take a lot of time and drag our progress. However, during the afternoon session, we are able to work fast and repair a lot more computer than morning session as I'm already get used to the computers' problems and know the respective solutions for it.

👆 Before going for my lunch, I have completed installed all the software for 4 more laptops and left them for Windows 7 upgrades process which will take a long time as they are about 160 upgrades for the school laptops. (Maybe the computers had been a long time left aside, not doing any upgrade)

After the lunch, it's about the time that the afternoon session members come from UM to SMKBDP to take over some morning session members' job. Then, Jason have briefed to the new members joining us, what to do, and the respective solutions to the problem. Afterwards, everyone continued to repair laptops.

During afternoon, I have installed software and upgrading the Windows for as many computer as I can. As waiting for the Windows to finish upgrading, I help the new ones to get used to do the factory reset and software installation.

Around 6 pm, there are few more laptops haven't yet finish upgrading,we have to stop the upgrading at whatever stages it is to let the laptops function normally whenever the students used them next time. Meanwhile no wasting the time to quickly install softwares on other laptops, all we can do is patiently waiting while praying for the installation process to finish faster. 😂😂😂

Sadly, we can't repair all computers as some are broken screen, some are with BIOS lock and administrative password. 😓 However, we did did our best to repair as many as we could and hope that it helps the students during their class.😁

Before, going back to UM, we have taken photo inside the classroom with the afternoon session students, teachers, Dr. Reza and facilitators for the workshop.

It's had been a whole day event. We have successfully did it.

Joining for the morning and afternoon session, it's really tired. However, I have learnt a lot and did something meaningful to help the school and the students.

In our daily life, we should always contribute back to the society with what we have learnt and gained from the society. Giving back to the society is important. Arthur Ashe once said "From what we get, we can make a living;what we give, however, makes a life."