Lincoln’s ChalleNGe

LIS 451 Final ProjectRandy Kuehn

Joshua Lupkin Cassandra Malik

Logan Moore Mark Moss

Natalie Sapkarov Erin Silva

History

Started in 1993 as a pilot project for at-risk youth

Overseen by the National Gaurd

Program in 29 states Illinois with largest

enrollment rate

Organization Mission

Eight core objectives in "meeting the challenge": Academic excellence Job skills Physical fitness Leadership/followership Health, sex, education, and nutrition Life coping skills Responsible citizenship Community service

Our Goal

Configure and set up 60 newly donated computers

Deadline: First week of November

Implementation Plan

Considerations…Large number of work stationsTime frame for completionPresence of team members onsite at different

days and timesUnpredictable conditions at the work site

Actual Implementation

Assessed and documented computers

Designed and built network

Duped the hard drives

Inventory

Hardware 60 new-ish HP

workstations, connected through 5 hubs to a server

Inventory

Software VCOM’s

Partition Commander

Meeting the Challenge

GED 21st Century

Read On!

Inventory

Other Extension cords &

spike bars Lots of cabling Raceway & pvc

Digest of Communications

Group Communication The LOG

Site Communication E-mail Face to face

Summary of Problems/Solutions

General Contradictory

instructions Specific

Imaging After we left

Hub to hub connections

Workstation 59

Lessons Learned - Technical

Electrical

Cabling

Hard drives

Lessons Learned - Vocational

Working within a hierarchy

Working under restrictions

Communication

Final Product