This year one of the site we worked at was the Boy & Girls Club of Buffalo. They have a large administrative building and 16 satellite locations. They give kids a place to go during the summer and after school. They serve thousands of children in the WNY area.

In June the team assigned to this site did their initial site visit. We meet with 2 people from the agency. Their administrative office is the foundation of all their satellite offices. All the satellite offices connect into the main administrative office for all services. Without a highly technical administrative office the satellite offices would not be able to provide the services to their clients that they would like to. This site will be a muti-year project for Ed Tech Day. We started with the administrative offices so that a good foundation is built.

We examined their existing infrastructure to see what needed to be replaced or upgraded. They had two servers that were very old - 8+yrs old. We determined that one brand new server could replace both these machines. The current hardware could not be upgraded. They also had very limited harddrive space. Next we addressed their desktop computers. The majority of their computers were 8 yrs old. They had close to 30 computers in just the administrative offices.

After the site evaluation visit the team's work starts. We need to secure the necessary equipment and determine a game plan. First we determine exactly what needs to be done. That project plan and equipment list is then turned into the Ed Tech Foundation board for final approval. By early July all teams have turned in their project plans and equipment needs. The ETF board then determines what they have from corporate equipment donations and what they need to purchase.

for the Boys & Girls Club we determined that the ETF would purchase a server and router. The server needed to be powerful enough to handle 100 users connecting to it. The other piece they needed were a good number of desktop computers. During the warehouse cleaning the team secured 20 desktop computers.

Before Ed Tech Day the team needs to build all 20 of these computers, install the server operating system and prep the old server for migration. There is a lot of work that goes into Ed Tech Day prior to the actual day. Two team members split up the desktop computers and another took the server.

On Ed Tech Day a group of 8 people went to this site. An amazing amount of work was done on this day. Two servers were migrated to one new server. This included migrating Active Directory, users, computers, group policies, printers, files, etc. We also updated their roaming profiles from Windows XP to Windows 7. We also replaced 20 desktops in their offices. Each desktop was installed and configured for the users.

After Ed Tech Day, Sunn King picked up all the old machines and monitors at this location to be recycled.

Next year we are planning on doing at least one computer lab for this organization.