The Ed Tech Foundation is starting off the 2012 new year moving into new office and storage space. This is a huge milestone for the Foundation from our beginnings. Not that long ago in 2003 there was just a handful of people putting together the first Ed Tech Day. We did one school that year. Now we have office space and do 10-20 sites in August.

For those of us that have been around since day 1, its amazing how far we have come.

The Ed Tech Foundation now has an office where our computer imaging lab is located. We also have a storage location in the same building. This will enable us to image/build machines easier since everything is one location. Our new location is provided by Working Knowledge who also does all the wiring for our Ed Tech Day sites. We are located in the Larkin building.

We would like to thank Cooks Moving who has provided us warehouse space for all our donations for many years. They have put up with us taking over a row in their warehouse and helping us moving equipment around.

We are very excited to start this new beginning.

I look forward to Ed Tech Day each year. Every day, technology becomes a more pervasive part of our day-to-day lives. This can create an alarming productivity and opportunity gap between children that do and do not have access to technology. Volunteering for Ed Tech Day provides a way to directly and immediately impact this disparity in our community. On a personal level, it is incredibly rewarding to work as part of a team and at the end of the day be able to see computers set up and ready to be used immediately by the next person that sits in front of it.

-Tae Park, CIO, Greatbatch