Tech Awareness Association — Learn. Repair. Reduce.
Student-run 501(c)(3) · Shrewsbury, MA

We fix it
together.

We run free, hands-on workshops that teach people — especially seniors and first-time repairers — how to fix their own devices, stay safe online, and keep usable electronics out of landfills.

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A student driving a screw out of an open iPhone on an iFixit mat
Fig. 01 — Battery swap, weekly workshop

The impact so far

442
Devices collected
1,545
lbs of e-waste diverted
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Workshops running
100+
People taught
120+
Devices repaired
What we do

Three ways in.

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Weekly Repair Workshops

Drop in, pick up a driver, open something. A 12-week curriculum you can join any week — no signup needed to attend.

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A parent and student opening a laptop together 02

Senior Tech Support

One-on-one help at Southgate Senior Center. Your device, your questions, your pace. No judgment, ever.

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Boxes of donated electronics at an outdoor e-waste drive 03

E-Waste Drives

Bring us your dead electronics. We triage every device: resell, refurbish, parts, or recycle. Nothing goes to waste by default.

See how it works →
Fig. 02 — From the bench

Watch a repair happen.

A real timelapse from our benches — a teardown, start to finish, inside the phone it happened to.

The bench, explained

Tap a tool.
Learn what it does.

Every bench runs on the iFixit Pro Tech Toolkit and mat. Here's what's actually in it — tap around.

iFixit Pro Tech Mat
Magnetic · Sorts screws · Saves repairs
On the mat
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This is the teaser. The full graded repair simulator — real iFixit guide photos, mistakes priced in real dollars — lives in Teardown.

Who backs the benches
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iFixit — Partner

The 30 Pro Tech Toolkits and mats on our benches, plus the open repair guides we teach from — in the workshops and inside Teardown.

Granite
Granite Telecommunications — Donor

Donated the ~110 desktops and laptops that form our hardware base — the machines we repair, teach on, and refurbish to give away.

Six towns.
Aiming for fifty.

Pick your town, get its schedule and signup link. No chapter near you yet? That's your opening — we'll help you start one.

Shrewsbury — live · flagship Grafton — live Southgate — live Westborough — forming Worcester — forming Hopkinton — forming
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Get involved

Three doors.

Volunteer
Teach, triage, or start a chapter

Instructors, refurbishers, chapter leaders for new towns. Email us — we'll find you a bench.

Donate
Money or machines — both work

Tax-deductible. Old laptops, desktops, and parts become the next class's teaching hardware.

Partner
Sponsor a bench or a chapter

Companies keep the toolkits stocked and the drives running. Talk to us about sponsorship.

From the feed

This is what a
workshop looks like.

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An iFixit Pro Tech Toolkit spread open beside a phone screen being removed A student marking screw positions on an iFixit mat next to an opened phone A student lifting a component out of an open phone with precision tweezers A young student examining a disassembled camera over an iFixit mat Kids working through toolkits and mats at a workshop table Hands positioning a precision driver over an open MacBook

Between workshops.

New chapter announcements, workshop schedule changes, e-waste drive dates. That's the whole email — nothing else.