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In the groove [2014-02-16]

It’s Sunday morning here, time to take stock of the week.  As we say in America, this was the week that the rubber met the road for the 2014 projects in the Philippines.  Monday we began our first installation at Tayud National High School.  We had a few minor glitches but overall it was miraculously smooth. 

There were a lot of Ethernet cables that needed to be fabricated, but we were blessed by the help of a student there at Tayud who is an incredible whiz with a crimper.  Along with the superb help of one of the IT teachers, we were able to get the first IT lab up and running early on the second day.  Neal shot a video as each of the clients came up on the network with the Linux penguin screen – truly a moment of triumph!  The second IT lab was a bit more finicky, since there were older machines that required some trouble-shooting.  We each tried our various theories to get them going and ultimately as a team we managed to get them all working with the server.  Jade had the big breakthrough with the final recalcitrant unit, and we had more Linux penguins up and running!

The students and teachers at Tayud NHS were preparing for a dance competition for their huge municipal festival on Friday, so we had our first teacher trainings there on Saturday.  I will go back Monday for two more training sessions while Neal and Jade begin installation at our next school, Carmen National High School.  Friday morning on our “day off”, we got most of the work done at Sapak Extension High School, a fairly simple installation at the small local high school for street kids. 

As the days go by, Neal, Jade, and I get more and more efficient at our work, and we were truly thrilled with the dedication and support of our colleagues at Tayud NHS.  Assuming all goes well at Carmen NHS in the next few days, we hope to start work at one of the elementary schools here in Compostela on Friday.  We are excited that we will be joined Saturday by our colleague from Aboitiz to help with that installation, as well as one of our friends here in town who is a superb craftsman. 

We still have a few things to do at Tayud (their internet has been out for about two weeks now and will need to be connected once it comes back up), so we will pay a return visit in a couple of weeks to finish up and see how things are going.  Tayud NHS has over 1200 students and 46 teachers, so working with them to create a virus-free lab that can be used easily is so rewarding.  We send our thanks again to the donors and supporters of Reneal IEO who help to make these projects possible.