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CST 361S - Week 2

Service Project
This week, I spent 4.5 hours at Computers 2 SD Kids on a Saturday morning, which puts me at 9 hours in total for my service project. 

 I'm planning on taking photos and videos of the warehouse where I've spent most of the time refurbishing computers and helping out with general tech assistance. My skills in troubleshooting hardware and software have been quite useful, and I believe everyone I have worked with so far has been pleased with my contributions. I'm looking forward to taking photos of the warehouse and some of the volunteers at work (with their permission, of course), and photos/video of the upcoming library computer skills class that I am attending this coming weekend. 

 Swim Good 
This week's reading about swimming in segregation was quite interesting -- I never knew the depth and seriousness of segregation in swimming in the United States even in the competitive side until reading the excerpt from the novel, even though I was aware from history classes that swimming pools were segregated. I definitely see the parallel between the lack of diversity in swimming and in computer science, and I believe it is important that things like outreach programs and efforts to eliminate the social stigma that computer science is only for men or people who are naturally talented with computers.


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