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WEST VALLEY -- 23 to 32 years olds - also known as Generation Y - may have created Facebook, Twitter and the online social revolution, but it's the younger generation that knows how to use all the latest technology and gadgets. That knowledge was on display at Hunter High School today where teachers were looking for the fastest geeks.
Cheered on by their peers, the fourth annual contest challenges "geeks" to assemble parts into an operating computer in the least amount of time.
"My dad showed me a lot of things about computers," said Kim La, a sophomore at Hunter High.
Kim La won the competition, becoming in a sense the ultimate geek.
"Some kids might not want to be called that but I don't mind," La said.
Alex Ford, another sophomore, placed second. The race was extremely close.
"I missed one cord and that cost me first place," said Ford.
Participants didn't necessarily train for the event in a traditional sense. Rather, their skills are based on experience and trial and error, and a little bit of intuition.
"I know about computers, and plus they're easy because you can feel like they're puzzle pieces - ‘cause if it fits, then it's probably going to go in there," Ford said.
The first place winner got a loaded laptop computer. Second and third place winners received iPods. All participants got to keep the computers they assembled.
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