What is this Project About?
Through the computer project learn about hardware, software and computer applications. Learn how to create networks, domains and workgroups and make decisions about operating systems. Plan your security and firewalls, make decisions about monitoring your network and troubleshooting problems. Take your skills to the next level by learning scratch programming. Program fun animations and put the characters into computer games that you create.
Grow in Your Project
Starting Out
- Assemble computer and software tool kits
- Deconstruct and reconstruct a computer
- Understand how computers use numbers
- Troubleshoot PC hardware problems
- Install operating systems
- Decide to upgrade or replace an old computer
Learning More
- Identify network hardware
- Design a computer network
- Find an Internet protocol address
- Understand different types of servers
- Identify computers on a local area network
- Add peripherals to a network
- Secure a networked computer
Going Further
- Share the ways you use a computer with an adult
- Understand technology needs in your community
- Organize a team to identify and set goals for community technology needs
- Develop an activity plan
- Teach a class on computers using the 4-H curriculum
Take Your Project Further!
- Enter your computer programming or engineering design in a local science fair
- Sign up for classes provided by your school or community education programs
- Tour a local computer business (retail store, repair store, manufacturing company, etc.)
- Compete in Showcase Showdown with a speech or demonstration about computers or create a PowerPoint to support a different speech topic
