Organizers, sponsors, and volunteers are scarce. Please help.
Register online to help at your child's school or register to help at the District.
To help with a school in the Thompson School District, click here.
To help with a school anywhere else in the country, go the the NetDay home page and click "search".
Then call the school or the District and tell them you have registered. Ask how you can help. If the school doesn't have an organizer, you might offer to accept the role. If the school doesn't intend to participate at this time, you might offer to help at another school. On the next NetDay, your experience will be a great help to your child's school.
A few volunteers have helped to grease the skids by enlisting support from the Superintendent, Director of Technology Services, and some of the Principals. But remember, NetDay is a grassroots volunteer effort. If you don't support NetDay, it won't succeed. Enlist support from your employer, your friends, your fellow parents, your coworkers, your neighbors, your child's teachers, and the businesses you patronize.
The District has adopted a "Strategic Plan for Technology". NetDay will implement a small portion of the overall cabling plant. Your plans should be extensible. Obviously, we don't want to rip out the NetDay cabling as the remainder of the cabling plant is installed over the next few years.
If you are volunteering as an experienced Category 5 planner, District staff and/or technical volunteers familiar with the Strategic Plan will help familiarize you with "the big picture".
This is a key role. Without a plan, a school can't be cabled.
You'll need to know Category 5 cable routing guidelines and Category 5 termination guidelines.
Experience is a big help, since unexpected situations will often arise.
With the high cost of quality Category 5 test equipment, the District desperately needs the loan of such equipment from corporations and cabling contractors. Better yet would be the equipment along with a pair of experienced Category 5 test personnel.
A printed report of the certified Category 5 installation is highly desireable.
It is not essential that every school be tested on NetDay. However, testing and identification of remedial work should come as soon thereafter as possible.
In particular, the kits include 2000' of cable, 12 surface mount boxes, 12 Category 5 jacks, 12 cover plates, a 24-port patch-panel, and a wall-mount bracket for the patch panel.
If you are interested in donating NetDay kits or partially funding a NetDay kit, I would suggest you notify the school and the District.
Some schools will require Plenum-rated cable, and some may get by with non-plenum cable. The cost of a non-plenum NetDay kit is under $400. The cost of a plenum-rated NetDay kit is under $700. Related supplies (cable ties, Wiremold, etc.) will vary considerably. On average, expect about $100 in extra materials.
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State Contact:
raytsch@labschool.univnorthco.edu
National Contact:
netday@netday96.com