oh wait wait so right now I'm basically
just trying to get the adhesive to
release the phone a little bit more so I
could take the screen off of the base of
the song oh good see how okay here we go
yeah okay now we've except for a number
of years there were quite a few students
in the upper school who had an interest
in starting a repair kind of division of
the technology department we had lots of
students who needed their computers
repaired and needed help and our
technology part was sort of overwhelmed
I mean so in November in 2015 Jeannie
Crowley our director came to me with an
idea of starting the research center
which is based off of the restart
project which is based in London which
they go into the community and help
community members actually fix other
computers I broke my phone and I was
dreading having to tell my parents and I
had heard from some people that we had a
research centre and I wasn't really sure
because like I also don't know how much
I trust other people to like fix my
school and I might as well just end it
back to Apple and then right before I
knew I was enacted to my parents we made
an appointment and we fix it and it was
like the best experience I've had so far
there was a sign talking about restart
now you can fix your own electronics you
know devices your electronics now
they're all this sounds really cool I'm
going to join this sounds like an
educational experience last year the
high school tech team came to ethical
and they taught us how to fix a computer
so when I was very interested in that
and then this year when I gave us a list
of clubs I was like oh this is what
those calls so I liked it and I signed
up for it we buy the parts we've been
generously funded by a parent who
provide
small grant to let us buy the parts so
the kids can have a little bit of no
risk environment they haven't invested
any finances into it so the the student
with a broken phone will come in sit
down and then the student volunteer will
pull up the instructions on an iPad or
on paper help guide them through the
process and then only take over when
there's something that we know from
experience is particularly tricky at
first I didn't really know that I would
be fixing my phone the cans on and
especially not that I would get the help
of sixth graders instead of teachers
most of those times students come to the
research center with the idea that we're
going to fix their device for but the
difference between a tech bar and
research center is that the student is
actually doing repair I would never
think to open my phone and try to fix in
my spare time I've kind of like a huge
and no no but going through this process
and seeing how I myself can pick my own
devices and even help others I think is
super cool as we started to progress
through the school year we notice that
the kids were a bit more ready for
something more so we started taking
apart devices talking about where parts
that don't work where do they go and
what do we do with them we started
approaching this whole sustainability
aspect the immediate goal is to just
keep as much as possible out of landfill
I think in the long term the goal is to
have our students leave and not become
the next CEO of Apple you know and not
become the next person who designs the
latest greatest electronic tool but to
be the person in those meetings to say
have you thought about the connection
between the design and the long term
lifespan design I think that iPad Mini
and I sort of helped him with a problem
on a laptop I would be able to repair a
computer screen anything having to do
with the inside of an iPhone I'm pretty
confident about that I did a Maxwell ray
on macbook batteries and
didn't iphone screen everybody faces on
everybody that's all the stats like
within a year one three people break
their phones i can tell that we could go
home and get your parents to spend like
what one hundred two hundred dollars to
fix it or you could you know shoot some
so forth and fix it yourself and not
only amaze yourself but amazing parent
which is awesome
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