hi everyone it's me MJ with iFixit and
since we haven't posted anything
recently on our channel i figured i'd
like you know we've been up to in
addition to a couple of internal
projects we have been hard at work on a
whole series of videos to complement our
technical writing program and rather
than showing you those videos i thought
i would just tell you that about the
program because it's pretty awesome and
we would love to have more folks
involved so listen up you might not know
this but i fix it began as a two-person
operation run out of the dorms at Cal
Poly San Luis Obispo back in 2003 since
then we've grown a lot obviously but
we're still located in San Luis Obispo
and we're still interested in
reinvesting your energy into the
university so in an effort to broaden
our range of repair guides and provide
students with engaging work we began
partnering with technical writing
programs at universities in 2009 since
then students have produced over 3,000
repair guides that have been used by
millions of people around the world
which is why we're so excited about the
project the work students produce in our
program makes a real impact on the world
and it doesn't cost their instructors of
the universities a cent the program
basically is a hands-on technical
writing project in which a group of
students create documentation on
identifying troubleshooting and
installing the major components of a
device which is either provided by us or
the students can choose it themselves in
return we provide the students with the
tools and instructions document and
photograph a device and we host the
entire curriculum so students have
access to it whenever probably my
favorite thing about the program is that
the students get to do real work and at
the end of the project they have
something that they can show off to
family and friends and even from their
resume at the end of the term from an
instructor's perspective we've made the
program really easy to adopt we provide
the curriculum video tutorials grading
rubrics checklist and email support for
instructors and students all of which
come at no cost we've seen some amazing
results from the 12 universities that
have already adopted the curriculum and
we would love to extend that opportunity
to others so if you're interested or
know somebody who might be interested in
setting up a pilot program at a
university send us an email at education
at ifixit.com or check out the program
at edu ifixit com that's all for me
today but hopeful
I will see you all around the internet
very soon