STUDENTS: Matthew Gates, Zachary Taylor, Ryan Ephault

ADVISOR: Dr. Alan Peslak

ABSTRACT:

This project is being done for the Wayne County Historical Society located in Honesdale. The project involves renovating the computers for their children’s section. The computers need to be upgraded, the software needs to be changed, and the entire set up needs to be cleaned and organized. Their software requirements involved educational and history based games and software that focused on the theme of genealogy.

The computers received new ram and solid-state drives. We set up kiosk mode which allows for a user on the computer to use a single app to prevent children from harming the computers. The single app the kiosk mode offers is a web browser that defaults to the Wayne County Historical Society’s website. The website is locally hosted which allows us to embed links to other educational websites that contain games and information. We also embedded a pdf that allows children to fill out and print a family tree. They also want us to produce a kid friendly manual to help them understand the new features that have been added.