Bring your broken keyboard, broken headphones, orphaned cord, or slow-running computer to the Cornell Bowers CIS Earth Day Repair Fair.
Volunteers will help you repair broken devices and donate and recycle unwanted technology. We will accept items with strings (including strings). The event will be held in the Gates Hall lobby on April 22 from 3 to 6 p.m.
“By helping our community members extend the life of their existing devices and organize their old junk drawers, we hope to both keep technology out of landfills and change the way we think about computing.” said fair organizer Dylan Van Bramer ’25. Organizer. “We did a lot of repair and recycling at last semester’s Repair Fair, and we hope to do even more this time!”
During the fair, members of the Cornell University Computer Reuse Association, the Ithaca Remediation Community, and the Computing on Earth Lab, directed by Stephen Jackson, professor of information science and science and technology studies at Cornell University of South Carolina A consultant will be dispatched from Bowers College of Computing and Information Science and Vice President for Academic Innovation.
Cornell Bowers CIS and the Campus Sustainability Office are sponsoring this event.
This is the university's first Earth Day event, and students are invited to learn about the impact of computing and consumer technology on the environment and how they can reduce that impact by reducing e-waste through Right to Repair initiatives. It has been.
“This is a great way to celebrate Earth Day,” Van Bramer said.
Patricia Waldron is a writer in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Sciences.
