This may be an approach worth running with in your campaign to corral that school herd.
Instead of trying to recruit the Lab straight out, much better to recruit the Teacher first. In fact it doesn't even have to be the IT lecturer. Most have a "favourite" teacher that they get on well with. This is the one to recruit.
Approach them pretty much straight out. They should know by now you're keen on computing so an approach on the topic wouldn't be unexpected.
Something like, "I'm taking part in a project to prove the feasability of constructing the worlds largest super-computer by distributed computing processes and I would like your help."
Kids asking for help always gets them on their weak point.
What do you want them to do? Have a diskette with the client on it including a reasonable buff-in. Show them (assuring them all the time of virus free etc. and taking them to the dnet page if possible) how easy to set up it is and how much fun it is to have a strange cow in the systray that does absolutely nothing.
Give it a go!!!
Instead of trying to recruit the Lab straight out, much better to recruit the Teacher first. In fact it doesn't even have to be the IT lecturer. Most have a "favourite" teacher that they get on well with. This is the one to recruit.
Approach them pretty much straight out. They should know by now you're keen on computing so an approach on the topic wouldn't be unexpected.
Something like, "I'm taking part in a project to prove the feasability of constructing the worlds largest super-computer by distributed computing processes and I would like your help."
Kids asking for help always gets them on their weak point.
What do you want them to do? Have a diskette with the client on it including a reasonable buff-in. Show them (assuring them all the time of virus free etc. and taking them to the dnet page if possible) how easy to set up it is and how much fun it is to have a strange cow in the systray that does absolutely nothing.
Give it a go!!!
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