Fix and Mingle

At Butler Traditional High School in Louisville, Kentucky, students fix their school's broken Chromebooks themselves. At the school's Chromebook Repair Station, they handle everything from cracked screens to dead keyboards and trackpads. The team fixes about four or five Chromebooks a day, and a repair now takes about two days.

Students first take a class on how computers work and what each part does. Then they follow the whole process, from checking in a broken Chromebook, to fixing it, to logging what was done. They earn college credit along the way, and one student said working on computers is going to be his career. Not every school can afford a program like this, though.

Your Task: Imagine your school does not have a repair program, so you and a teacher are starting a repair club, and you are the club's leader. The club will fix school Chromebooks and teach students how to do it, but only one person has signed up so far.

1. Build Your Club
Give your club a name and say what it is for. Explain when and how often it meets, and add one perk beyond learning to fix tech, like food or volunteer hours. Say where you would get the money or parts you need. (4 to 5 sentences.)

2. The Pitch
Pick one kind of student who would never think this club is for them, like freshmen, students who say they are bad with tech, or athletes with no free time. Write the exact words you would say to get them to join, using details from your club. (4 sentences.)

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