Shaggy taught the Internet theory class, I (tweeks) did the DNS, hardware and webserver classes, and Ernest did a "Good Webdesign" session, and then folks from our creative design group got into web site aesthetics and logo design. Overall, it was a great experience for all.
On the forth day of Tech Kids, were the Internet and DNS theory classes.
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This was held at the UTSA downtown campus. Very nice technology classrooms!
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This is the "DNS Death-match Lookup" contest.
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The kids were to look up real A records in pages of DNS data that I taped into real phone books.
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The winners had to be the first ones to write down the IP for their FQDN. :)
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Later on Thursday was Server Hardware Build day. (DCA Brandon Warde as one of our "Hardware Gurus")
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Dale, another of our hardware gurus assisting the kids with the pre-build contest overview.
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Most of the kids had never been inside a computer before.
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They really got into it.
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Some parts were rather tricky...
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Especially the CPU heat sink seen here.
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Joe Wiese and Louis Cintron were a big help as hardware gurus!
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Dale Bracey really loved working with the kids, and they loved his shoes. :)
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The kids were really sharp.. and seemed to really love hanging out with Rackers.
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Team "Toon Squad" built their server and had it booting and running in UNDER seven minutes!
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The "Rackspace Stunnas" was right on their heels at around 7 minutes. :)
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Two of our hardware gurus.. We all had a really good time and answered many questions.
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Afterwards, the kids really got into playing around with Ubuntu (our test boot CD).
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I was just happy to get a break from talking.. :)
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Kirsten (left) is the daughter of a Racker and already runs Ubuntu at home! :)
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The next day we tag team taught. I did Web server theory and setup and Ernest did an HTML & CSS
coding class.
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The kids really got into the material.
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They were really excited as they got apache up, and wrote their own first web page on the new web site.
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Some of them asked really great questions...
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It was tiring, but well worth the time and energy.
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I think the JR high boys really liked Sam. hehe.. :)
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Can you pick out the teacher in this shot? hehe..
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Pizza Time!
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Even young coders have to come out of their caves every few hours. :)
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Other "guru Rackers" made an appearance and hung out with the kids too.
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This girl Dejanique was really sharp. A freshman in HS, she's already taking college courses and
will graduate at 17!
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Ahhh.. high school art work at it's finest. :)
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The last class on Friday folks from our creative group come and talk to the artistic side of web
graphics design work.
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