About Us

Welcome to the home of ChesTech Community Computer Labs. The ChesTech labs are part of the Neighborhood Networks Project of the Chester Housing Authority. The goal of the labs is to increase community access to and knowledge of computers and the skills necessary to succeed.

About ChesTech

About Us

The ChesTech Community Labs seek to:
            • provide access to computers
            • teach people how to use computers
within the Chester Housing Authority (CHA).

This project is a joint collaboration between Swarthmore College and the CHA Neighborhood Networks Project. The initial idea was developed as service-based learning project for the "Socially Responsible Computing" seminar at Swarthmore in the Fall of 2009.
Our goals are to:
  • Build computer labs at each of the CHA Developments (Bennett, Chatham, William Penn)
  • Provide Chester middle and high School students with an opportunity to work with Swarthmore Students on fun and interesting computer-oriented projects
  • Work with adult learners to develop useful jobs skills
  • Make the labs open and available to all!