I’m involved with Boy Scouts, and in order to achieve the highest achievement, which is Eagle Scout rank, which is nationally known, you have to do a community service project. Mr. Winters came up to me and pulled me out of class and said, ‘Hey, we’re getting someone to get [rid of] these computers so you can get a new shipment of tablets. You want me to sign it over to you?’

Now I’m not tech savvy, but I was just like, ‘Why not?’ And so the computers started from there – it was just random.

There were 75 computers total for the project. 20 went out to one church in Davenport and they did an after school program with them. Another one was a food pantry and they relocated them to families that couldn’t afford them. And then to the other [church] I donated 42, and 30 of the computers went to save a school in El Salvador, because there’s a government mandated regulation where you have to have 15 working computers for a school and the school that we went to, they didn’t have any computers.

I called the church and I’m like, ‘Hey, I have computers.’ And they were like ‘Awesome, we know exactly what to do with it.’ [They] took them on a mission trip to El Salvador, which I was lucky enough to go on here. And they gave them the computers they’ve been praying for because they were on the verge of shutting down this year.

It is an understatement to say that this experience and all the time and effort was rewarding. It was so much more than that – it gave me a sense of purpose and belonging, senior Erin Foley said.