The Westside High School Tech Support Department recently sent out a quiz to all students concerning laptop safety in and outside of school. According to Westside High School IT Manager Michael Sanchez, the survey was sent out in order to encourage good computer etiquette due to a recent increase in laptop incidents in the school.

“We have seen an increase in accidental [laptop] damage [this year],” Sanchez said. “We thought it would be a good idea [to send something out].”

While Sanchez said he made some of the questions for the laptop safety quiz himself, he said he took a lot of questions for it directly from the Common Core State Standards for laptop safety.

“The quiz [has some] Common Core questions, as well as some questions [designed] specifically for Westside Students,” Sanchez said. “Currently, we have about 650 submissions from students.”

Sanchez said that the prize for completing the quiz, with a score of eleven out of twelve correct answers or higher, is an entry into a raffle to win a pair of Apple AirPods, although students may go back to correct their answers.

“The reward for the quiz is being entered into a drawing for a set of AirPods,” Sanchez said. “Students are only allowed to submit [their answers] once, but can go back and fix their answers afterwards to get a better score.”

According to Sanchez, the survey will stop taking submissions on Thursday, Oct. 22, with the winner being announced later in the week.

“The contest ends Thursday at 11:59p.m.,” Sanchez said. “The winner will be announced on Friday morning.”

Senior Morgan Beutler said she took the laptop safety quiz because it seemed like an easy way to potentially win something.

“[The quiz] took like 5 minutes and I figured ‘why not?’ if there’s a small chance of winning,” Beutler said. “I guess bribery is a pretty good way to get people to actually read their email.”

Similar to Beutler, Sophomore Michael Hurtado said he liked participating in the contest, and would like to see tech support send out similar ones down the line.

“I learned a couple of things about what to do with a damaged computer,” Hurtado said. “I think this was a fun quiz and it would be fun to see more of them in the future,”