Sri Lanka is a leading country in South Asian Region for having satisfactory level of ICT education with modern computer and internet facilities available for most of the schools. With the help of government and non-government organizations lots of programs and projects have been launched to develop ICT facilities in schools. But the existing problem is that in most of the schools a teacher in-charge of ICT education is not available. This fact has caused in many problems while maintaining and repairing these computers and other network accessories. Leo Club of University of Moratuwa is occupied with many talented individuals with a sound knowledge in the field of computer hardware, software and network. So we decided to extend our hands to help one of those schools with some computers available, which are out of use due to the above reason. Then we came up with the project “Set them up to Get them connected” to help one of those schools.
Project In Brief…
Assembling computer hardware
Refurbishing PC application software environment
Installing default drivers for hardware adapters/peripherals
Setting up and troubleshooting LAN configuration
Project description
Most of the Leos in our club are specialized in the field of computer science. Therefore we had an idea to come up with a technology based project and help someone in need. So we proposed this project in the board meeting and it was selected with very good feedbacks.
Though we wanted to do this as a continuous project in schools in remote areas, as a beginning and considering the time available, we decided to launch the first step as soon as possible. The very first task was to select a school. There were some suggestions raised from our fellow Leos and finally we decided to select Katubedda Bodhiraja Vidyalaya for this project. Because there was a request from that school to help them in refurbishing their computers and other network accessories as we are taking part in a project to teach IT for ordinary level students in that school.
As the first step we met Mr. Mahinda Lal, Principal of the school on 21st of September and we informed him about the project. Then we arranged a date and a time after a discussion with the principal. He was really obliged about coming up with such a project to his school as a lot of students were waiting to use computers and to surf internet, but they weren’t given a chance for a long time .
We launched our project on 26th of September. On that day we went there with some tools to assemble the computers and a software/driver collection. First we were taken to the computer lab of the school and when we reached there, only some desks and chairs could be seen in the room. Then we get the computers out and check their conditions. Most of them needed a reassembling of the components with necessary replacements. Finally we were able to fix computers and printers to a reasonable level with some replacements.
Our next task was to refurbish PC application software environment and to install default drivers for hardware adapters/peripherals including driver installation for printers and other accessories. Some of those printers were old and bulky ones. So finding drivers for them became little bit difficult. Our final step of the project was to implement standard network topology among the computers available, to set up LAN configuration of computers (IP, DNS, default gateway etc…) and to troubleshoot network problems occurred. Finally we make the IT laboratory of the school a useful and a regularly available one which was neglected and out of use for a long time before we launched the project.
Mr. Mahinda Lal – The Principal, Bodhiraja Vidyalaya, Katubedda
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