Returning Volunteers

Many of our volunteers leave the Adoption Program not realizing how they can further contribute to Free Geek.

This page is designed to help a person organize the Adoption Graduates who want to further volunteer at FG

Life After the Adoption Program

The build Program is a great way to learn how to build computers. You don't have to know ANYTHING about computers to start, and it is a self-paced program, usually taking about 60-80 hours, or 2-3 months.
Participants build 6 computers, learning card sorting, evaluating hardware, quality control,assembly and installation
Once completing the Build Program, there are additional educational options
- [Laptop Building]
- [Mac Building]
- Hardware testing (Advanced testing)
  - AGP Testing
  - CD Burner Testing
  - CPU Testing
  - DVD-ROM testing is new and cool.
  - Motherboard testing howto can be found here
  - Ram tester
  - USB Device Testing
  - Network Switch Testing - Testing network switches, hubs, routers, etc.
- Advanced Linux testing