September 30, 2005 - Engineering Students Teach Computer Fundamentals
  • Swati Jain helps a young student at the Jackie Joyner-Kersee Center
  • Harshavardhan Raghaula teaches a row of students at the Jackie Joyner-Kersee Center
Thanks to a grant arranged by Ron Banks and Bernard Waxman, the SOE and Computer Science Dept. have hired four students to teach computer fundamentals at the Jackie Joyner-Kersee Center in East St. Louis. Pavankumar Reddy Jataprolu, Prasanth K. Mandali, Harshavardhan Raghaula, and Swati Jain have taught a wide range of computer skills to students from early grade school to late high school. This semester, the older students are learning computer construction and repair, while the younger students are learning basic computer skills through the use of educational games.