Santa Clara Valley K-12 Education

From December 4-10,2004 six IEEE volunteers (Charlie Neuhauser, Chris Silbert, Issac Leung, David Fong, Sherry Woo, and Kara Poon sorted thousands of books and packaged them into various boxes for distribution. This year was Charlie's first year. He had some good ideas to improve the productivity : use bar code system to easily identify the grade and age range for each book.
We had fun with the other volunteers from different non-profit organizations.

Books were distributed by Daisy Cheng and David Fong to the following schools between December 11,2004 - January 4,2005.

Thanks to "Kids in Common" and "San Jose Mercury" we were able to sort books and distribute books to over 3650 children in the Santa Clara Valley Area. Two thousand more books than last year. Most are from low-income immigrants and migrant families. About 100 books were in Spanish. Breakdown in booksAnderson Elementary School, San Jose 300 books given to children who attended the reading centerScott Lane Elementary School, Santa Clara 400 + 35 Spanish books given to children who attended the homework centerMcKinley Elementary School, San Jose 400 books to children and their parents Castro Mariano Elementary School, Mtn View 400 books to homework center Cesar Chavez Academy (Middle School), East Palo Alto 500 books to be distributed to students August Boeger Jr High School, San Jose (East) 300 books to reading center to be given to students Mt Pleasant High School, San Jose (East) 185 books to students who participate in the reading centerCastro Middle School, San Jose 430 books to homework center to be given to studentsRogers Middle School, San Jose 200 books to homework center to be given to students
Westmont High School, San Jose 186 books to homework center to be given to students Del Mar High School, San Jose 130 books given to Special Education teacher and her students. 20 Vietnamese books were given to a company's employees who wanted to teach their children a book with bilingual wordings:English and Vietnamese. Some of the stories : Oscar L. "Thank you for the box of books. I found a good book in the box. I just wanted to write back and thank you." Edgar G. "Thank you so much for "Point Blank". I enjoy fiction books a lot. You gift is cool." Dyinte K. "I appreciate the book because I am an athlete. And I need all the reading. I need thanks thinking of children who need books so that they can exhale in life. I will take in consideration to what you're doing." Jeff G. "I think you so much for "Treasure Island". I enjoy adventure books. You gift will help me in school work so I have a book to read for book reports."
Cart of books to be sorted

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Garage of books to be delivered. Only one-third of the books are shown.

Closeup of the books to be delivered.

closeup of books