SeniorNet, a non-profit organization founded in 1986 that teaches those over the age of 49 how to use computers and the Internet, will hold a Fall Open House tomorrow and Monday from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. at the Don Weidman Computer Learning Center, 790 Park Ave., Huntington, which is just north of Pulaski Road.
Registration also will be held on those days for the center’s Fall semester, which begins on Oct. 1 and lasts for eight weeks. Visitors are welcome to tour the computer lab, review courses and meet the faculty and computer coaches.
SeniorNet has 200 locally run Learning Centers in the U.S. and abroad. An annual membership at the Huntington center costs $40, and the courses range from $25 to $60 each, depending on the complexity and need for materials.
Courses include introductions to typing, basic computer processes and applications, word processing and the digital camera. There are other courses in graphics, Windows XP/Vista, Internet and e-mail, music and the computer, genealogy and making home movies.
The center was named for its founder, according to Mike Earley, a volunteer.
“Don is revered by the old-time volunteers who remember how primitive the laboratory and the whole set-up was when he inaugurated the thing,” Early said. “And he just worked the crowd to get more volunteers and get more money to make things better.”
The Weidman center, which has served more than 4,000 students since it opened in 1999, according to Earley, won the national organization’s first “Chairman’s Award” in July for “superior performance in bringing technology access and education to older adults, and innovation in the use of technology to further adult education.”
Light refreshments will be served at the open house. For details, call 631-427-3700, extension 268. To get a registration form online, click here.
1 comment:
If I can't attend either open house, how late can I register and still get in to the Fall session?
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