Programs & Workshops — Tech Awareness Association
Programs & Workshops

Teach,
don't fix-for.

We don't take your phone behind a counter. You open it, you fix it, we sit next to you. Five programs, one rule.

A student lifting a component out of an open phone with tweezers
Fig. 01 — Week 4, phone care
01

Weekly Repair Workshops

A 12-week tech literacy curriculum that restarts every cycle, per chapter. Drop-in friendly — no signup required to attend, and you can join at any week. Each chapter's library runs its own signup form if you want a seat held.

You'll open real hardware from week one. By the end you can judge a repair-or-replace call, swap a battery, and spot an online scam from across the room.

Find your chapter's schedule →
The curriculum

12 weeks, then it restarts.

Miss a week? Catch it next cycle. Every chapter runs the same loop.

01General Awareness
02Repair or Replace?
03Batteries & Device Lifespans
04Phone Care & Preventative Maintenance
05Laptop Awareness
06Laptop Maintenance & Simple Fixes
07Community Repair & Learning Together
08Accessibility & Seniors
09Online Safety & Scams
10Meeting AI — Everyday Tools Explained
11AI Red Flags — Deepfakes, Cloned Voices & AI Scams
12Capstone Fix-a-Thon — Community Repair Night
30
iFixit Pro Tech Toolkits
30
Repair mats
110
Devices from Granite

Every seat gets real tools and a real machine. The Granite devices get repaired, taught on, and — when they're fixed — refurbished and given away.

02

Senior Tech Support

One-on-one, currently at Southgate Senior Center. Bring the device that's been bugging you and the questions you've been embarrassed to ask. There are no dumb questions here — we've heard them all, and we asked most of them ourselves first.

Prefer to learn at home, at your own pace? We built Susu for exactly that — free, jargon-free, judgment-free.

Southgate details →
One-on-one Senior Tech Support session
Fig. 02 — One-on-one session
Boxes of donated electronics at an outdoor e-waste drive
Fig. 03 — Triage bench, refurb in progress
03

E-Waste Drives

Periodic collection days. Every device that comes in gets triaged into one of four tiers — nothing gets landfilled by default:

T1Resell — works as-is; proceeds fund the program
T2Refurbish — fixable; becomes teaching hardware or a giveaway
T3Parts — dead, but its screen and battery live on
T4Recycle — responsibly, as the last resort
04

Worcester Laptop Donation

Refurbished laptops from our e-waste drives, given free to Worcester residents who need one and don't have one. No strings — just an application and a quick eligibility check.

Every machine we hand out has already passed through Tier 2 refurbishment: wiped, tested, and set up to go. Apply and we'll follow up about pickup.

Apply for a laptop →
05

Shrewsbury School District Program

In-school repair sessions at Sherwood Middle School and Oak Middle School, taught by our Shrewsbury chapter. Same rule as everywhere else: students open the device themselves.

Built for classroom schedules — shorter sessions, tied to school terms, run in partnership with district staff.

Find your chapter's schedule →
Fig. 04 — From the bench

A full teardown, sped up.

What twelve weeks builds toward: opening a device without fear. Straight from a real bench, sped up.

Ready to open
something?

Find your workshop →