Hosting a KCK 'FREE PC's for Kids' Lab...

It's easy to host a KCK PC Lab in your neighborhood:

Find the hardware and build a Pile of Parts.
Simply browse the web and you'll find lot's of folks who want to donate their old Pentium PC. Perhaps it's missing a hard drive and another PC is missing a CD ROM. Put them together and you have a fully loaded PC. Try posting an ad on a classified board and in a few weeks you may have more parts than you have room! It's time to get some kids together.

Find the Location.
Running out of room? Perhaps a local business has a warehouse or garage, the rear of a store or a children's center, daycare center, shelter; we've held labs in dirt lots on card tables and in retail locations normally renting for $5000.00 a month.

Find the Kids.
Contact your local elementary, Jr. High or High School or just ask the local kids in your area if they'd like a FREE PC. Explain they just have to put the parts together and you'll show them how.

Here is a simple flyer that you can print and pass out in your neighborhood. Tape it to market and liquor store windows and places kids go to.

Here is a simple sign up sheet that can also track their progress and your success.

Schedule the Lab.
While it's best to have an ongoing lab that meets on a regular day for 2-4 hours minimum, you can hold a lab in one day and reduce your pile of parts to almost nothing by simply showing the kids how to assemble and configure working PCs from your pile of parts.

Buy Pizza.
Nothing keeps them coming back like free Pizza. It's a KCK tradition!

The reward model of KCK labs is simple: 'Come to class, learn a skill, get a free computer and have a blast along the way in fun, fast-paced, 'try-anything' labs that teach nuts-and-bolts hands-on PC skills that are the core foundation of any job in the high-tech industry.'

KCK GRADS ARE RAD!
Course Outline:

There are actually 8 classes so if you run an ongoing lab you can offer many labs to the kids (free) and paying adults and even generate revenue to support your rent or staff expenses. If you're simply offering a one day event, stick with the 101 lab:

  • 101 - PC assembly, repair and configuration.

    Many youth centers, summer school programs and Boys and Girls Clubs only host this lab, which is designed to provide a steady flow of Free PCs to Kids in their neighborhood...it simply requires a card table or plywood bench.

  • 102 - Installing Windows (95, 98, 2000, XP).

    This lab can run on the same bench as the 101 lab, although a seperate area for working PCs helps develop an 'assembly line' and speeds the delivery of computers to waiting hands.

  • 103 - Learning to use Notepad, WordPad, Paint, MS Word and Excel Macros.

    For facilities that have an area large enough for 3 to 5 working PCs (i.e. round table style), the basic Windows applications labs insure kids can use most of the core MS Office features required to develop their creative side.

    Advanced Labs - depending on space and enrollment

  • 104 - Installing PCMCIA cards, Setting up printers and a network of 2 or more PCs.
  • 105 - Connecting to the Internet, setting up Outlook Express accounts, spam filters and copying images and web page source code. Learning to market a business online.
  • 106 - Setting up an Apache Web Server, Mail Server, FTP server and VNC.
  • 107 - Writing HTML and Javascript driven web pages, page layout, developing original artwork.
  • 108 - Writing Perl CGI for web pages, guest books, customer registration screens and installing a credit card screen for a fully functional e-commerce web site.

If you'd like to host the 101 lab FREE, let us help! Click the NEXT button and we'll walk you through each step.

If you need help with videos or course material, To get you started we include an overview of the 101 lab at our website (above) and that course will help you generate revenue so you won't have to spend any money getting the edu material (below). For the complete 8 lab series on CD, click here to purchase the CD course for $99.95 - or as a reward for you - send us a video of kids getting free PC's in your very own KCK 101 Lab and we'll send you the 8 Lab CD course for just $9.95 (our cost to make it for you), plus $5.00 s/h.