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Source: The Record, Stockton, Calif.迷你倉出租July 13--STOCKTON -- Struggling to handle his bulky treasure, Gene Lewis lugged a flat-screen monitor and a desktop computer and placed it delicately on one of the round tables in the lobby of Franklin High School's spanking-new "C" building.The 11-year-old had spent four hours a day for two weeks with 27 other high-school and middle-school students taking apart and rebuilding desktop computers, and on Friday afternoon, they received their rewards.They got to take home the computers they had learned to refurbish."We took the computers apart, took all the pieces out, cleaned them with spray air and put them back in," said Gene, who next month will start seventh grade at Henry Elementary. "It was fun."The students had participated in a program hosted by Franklin and run by UNeed2, a nonprofit organization founded several years ago by Tracy resident Eric Hawkins and his wife, Lynda.UNeed2 seeks donations of used and surplus computers, Eric Hawkins said, then trains students to disassemble them, put them back together, reinstall the operating system and install office software.Hawkins, 47, said UNeed2 targets low-income youth. Its programs in the past have been based in community centers in Tracy and Livermore. The Franklin program -- brought to the school with support from the school's parent organization and through the efforts of 儲存倉nglish teacher Scott Hurban -- was a first for UNeed2 because it was in Stockton and because it was operated at a school site."We allow (the students) to tear them apart up to the motherboard, then we teach them to put them together," Hawkins said.Franklin Principal Reyes Gauna said he is hopeful some form of the program again will be offered to students during the upcoming academic year."The students learned a lot of stuff they otherwise would not have learned," Gauna said of the summer program.Eric Hawkins, a longtime probation counselor in Santa Clara County, said he was spurred to begin UNeed2 by years of working with troubled and economically disadvantaged youth."It tugs at your heart," Hawkins said. "We said, 'What can we do?' I've talked to a lot of parents and kids who don't have computers at home. Our whole goal is to bridge that digital divide."For 28 students over two weeks of Stockton's steamy summer, that divide was bridged one computer at a time."It really wasn't complicated," Gene said, preparing to bring his computer home. "It was easy and we had a lot of fun with it."Contact reporter Roger Phillips at (209) 546-8299 or rphillips@recordnet.com. Visit his blog at www.recordnet.com/phillipsblog.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 The Record (Stockton, Calif.) Visit The Record (Stockton, Calif.) at www.recordnet.com Distributed by MCT Information Services迷你倉沙田