Silicon Valley StRUT Competition 2010 Winners Announced

Team Irvington High School Takes Top Honors at the 2010 Silicon Valley StRUT (Students Recycling Used Technology) Competition at Ohlone College located in Fremont, CA.

Hector Albizo and students from the Information Technology Academy at Irvington High School won first place in the 10th Annual SVStRUT Competition at Ohlone Community College.

Ohlone College hosts the Silicon Valley StRUT Competition for 100 students from 12 local high schools, Monday, March 29. StRUT stands for Students Recycling Used Technology—a program that refurbishes and upgrades used computers for use in the schools. The StRUT program at Ohlone has just donated 36 computers, including keyboards and display units, and 10 lab tables to Fremont Unified School District for Horner Junior High School.

StRUT is an education system with three parts:

1. Students learn technical skills as they refurbish the computers
2. Computers are placed in schools throughout the state, supplementing their technology budgets
3. Prevents the computers, and the hazardous waste they generate, from going to landfills

The competition consists of four main areas, Computer Build, which tests problem solving, mechanics and teamwork, Presentation where each team presents their work to the judges after they are built, Troubleshooting, where students must trouble shoot a Packet Tracer ITE scenario, and a Written Exam of 50 multiple choice questions based on A+ certification content. The finale to the competition will be a school versus school Quiz Bowl. The competition takes place between 32 teams and involves over 50 judges, including nearly 18 volunteer judges from Intel Corporation.