Fundraising Idea - Lan Party

[Yan Wang]

Well, our most used tech lab, which is used by PLTW classes, robotics, and TSA, received new computers on Oct 1.

The old ones were 400mhz PIIs with integrated video.

The new ones are Dells w/2ghz P4s, 64mb DDR MX440 8x AGP, and 512mb PC2100.

So, I was thinking, wouldn't a lan party be a great fundraising idea?

I'm currently working on finding out the logistics of settings up such an event, since it would be using the district's SCHOOL computers for GAMES and PROFIT (for a non-profit organization, of course ).

There are 24 computers in the lab. If 20 computers were used and people had to pay $5/hr (or maybe have discounts for loooong hours), that would result in $300 in 3 hours (though I'd expect people to want to game longer)... if this fundraiser were done during the summer, that would result in a lot of money if held regularly.

Has anyone done something like this before? Lemme know what happened.