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Students Take Sledgehammers to Computers to Raise Money
By admin | October 27, 2009
Students Take Sledgehammers to Computers to Raise Money
For five hours last Friday, Tyler Penrod watched his fellow students at Purdue University take sledgehammers to computers.
Mr. Penrod, a senior at Purdue and president of a computer-animation club at the university, organized the event with other club leaders to raise travel funds for students to attend a national computer-animation conference. A local computer store donated old computers.
At Purdue, where many students take computer-related courses, “everyone has
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