CAP received a call Wednesday morning September 7th. The City of Cleveland was preparing to take in 300-400 evacuees from the New Orleans area and temporarily house them in the Convention Center.

These people would need Internet access so they could check on the status of loved ones, search for family and check/send e-mail.

Though it was a work day, several CAP volunteers dropped everything and began to work on systems for the lab. By late that afternoon, 25 PCs were built and configured (along with network hubs, configuration, etc.) to populate the lab.

Students from Glenville join CAP volunteers
Dan McMillan, Dan Hanson and Dan Davenport
along with Digital Vision's Bill Calahan in loading up for the lab.

The final results of the move to the Convention Center are not known yet but Thursday AM, CAP volunteers finished bringing down systems to the Lab.

CAP volunteers Dan Hanson and Ken Eskridge at the new lab.

Thanks to Krissy Blythe and Amy Messano from local Microsoft offices for providing 25 copies of Windows XP to be used for the lab.

Part of the new lab