Donating to Fuerza Youth Center!

After 5 months of hard work, the Naperville branch PUP team has collected and refurbished over 30 computers!<br><br>On Friday last week, PUP members Eric Chen, Jeff Cheng, Jimit Gosar, Helenna Gu, Nick Liu, Josh Tennyson, Kevin Xu, and I went out to Fuerza Youth Center in Cicero, IL to donate a freshly refurbished computer lab of 5 PCs plus peripherals. Huge thanks to Eric's dad and my dad for offering to drive us!<br><br>After a brief conversation with Fuerza's friendly managers, our team brought in the donation. Though there was no dedicated space with enough outlets to set up all five computers at the moment, we managed to establish a desk in the game room on which one tower could be set up. Then, because two of our PCs used Linux Mint instead of Windows, we set about teaching the kids at Fuerza how to use the OS. The youth at Fuerza were really intrigued by the prospect of learning more about computers. Two teens stood out in particular for their intent interest: Yair, a sophomore, and Tristann, a senior. Throughout the evening, I talked with Yair and Tristann about their past experience with computers and where their interest in tech started. As it turns out, a computer science graduate from Morton College by the name of Sergio used to come to Fuerza to teach the kids there about computer repair and maintenance, but for the last few months he's been too busy with work to teach them. Yair said that they've been eager to build their own computers for a while, but haven't gotten the chance.<br><br>The computers we left them will be a great opportunity for Yair, Tristann, and all the other kids at Fuerza to play around and further their experience with computers!