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* Fast Review of the 8 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals -- please
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1. Low Cost English Centre (LCEC) - Democratic Republic of Congo
2. Serving Servite - St. Ann, Jamaica
3. Malawi Pen Pal Global Outreach - Austin, Texas
4. Piensa en Verde - Managua, Nicaragua
5. "Skipping Stone" Travelling support team - Warsaw, Poland
6. UV Light Water Purifier USB - Ecuador
7. Interactive Learning and Cultural Preservation in the Ecuadorian
Amazon - Quito, Ecuador
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1. Low Cost English Centre (LCEC)
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72287
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 20 XOs over 60 months
Project Objectives: (excerpt)
The major objective of the LCEC (Low Cost English Centre) Project
consists
to offer, at no charge, the English language training to secondary
school
pupils throughout our territory, Uvira. Teachers at all levels (from
Pre-School to University) in country depend upon the meagre monthly
contributions from pupils/students' parents whose over 90% of them are
crossing an extreme poverty. A fact that makes it harder to request
payments from resourceless children/youths.
As to your information, there is a number of specific activities planned
to be achieved by the LCEC Project as to make more consistent &
significant the training being offered, as well as forming up really
skillful English-speaking youths for a brighter future of themselves
and the one of the whole community.
2. Serving Servite - St. Ann, Jamaica
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74689
http://servingservite.wordpress.com
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 100 XOs over 24 months
Project Objectives:
Our core objective is to provide information technology to our
students who
range from ages 5-11. This objective will equip and empower our
students
to become better persons and to make better communities and a better
country.
In this 21st century when even piped water is a luxury; these
students will
be able to learn outside of their borders and to dream and think as
world
citizens and not to grovel in their meagre existence.
3. Malawi Pen Pal Global Outreach - Austin, Texas
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74875
http://web.me.com/shpcstudentministry/Youth_Mission/OUR_STORY_FILM.html
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 2 XOs over 9 months
Project Objectives:
Increase the number of students in Manyamula and Mzuzu with access
to textbooks
and communication tools. Create a faster Pen Pal project to increase
the
exchange between the youth in America and those in partner churches
and cities
in Malawi.
4. Piensa en Verde - Managua, Nicaragua
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75240
http://sistemascastros.netne.net
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 2 XOs over 12 months
Project Objectives:
Develop in students the skills and sugar management andcapacity building
activities in the teachers themselves to developtheir class projects
based
on the different activities and to shareequally all the knowledge
gained with
other projects.
Past Experience/Qualifications:
Currently I have worked with several royal colleges in the country
with the
draft of the XO-1 and XO-1.5, which I have emphasizedmy efforts to help
improve the learning capabilities of local technicians and development
activities, support the differentactivities when integrating the
learning
curriculum models of Nicaragua, which I have been able to centralize all
the projects that have a minimum of laptops to home zacarias war in
order
to have a better answer to the problems of the XO.
5. "Skipping Stone" Travelling support team - Warsaw, Poland
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75474
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Petros.Polonos/Travelling_support_team
http://olpc.freesailor.info
http://hackerspace.pl
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 2 XOs over 5? months
Project Objectives:
Support team training
We are going to get involved in OLPC deployment and support on the
long-term
basis. This project's first goal is to give us practical knowledge
of the
system.
- Setting up local community network in the heterogeneous environment.
- Setting up and maintenance of XS in the ad hoc network.
- Daily maintenance and configuration.
As a result, OLPC community will obtain a permanent travelling team,
ready
to provide support in various areas. As our experience grow, we
shall also
be able to train and support short-term volunteers, as needed.
Base for future Polish grassroot pilot
As of Feb. 6th, 2011, we are actively looking for contact with
educators in
Poland, interested in OLPC as an alternative educational project. Our
knowledge and experience with the system will be used to introduce
non-technical partners and let them get familiar with the solution.
6. UV Light Water Purifier USB - Ecuador
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75751
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 2 XOs over 12 months
Project Objectives:
Create a UV water sterilization lamp that attaches to a USB port on
the OLPC
and will last long enough to sterilize several liters of water on
one battery
charge. This has humanitarian implications as well as educational uses.
It also promotes usefulness of the OLPC in regions where water
quality is
questionable and as an emergency response equipment in disaster areas.
7. Interactive Learning and Cultural Preservation in the Ecuadorian
Amazon - Quito, Ecuador
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75801
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 8 XOs over 6? months
Project Objectives:
There are several concurrent objectives of this project. Principally, we
plan to begin building an audio-dictionary of the native language of the
Siona people and to use it to help the young people learn their
ancestral
tongue. The secondary objective is to achieve measurable learning
outcomes
primarily in math, science, English, and Spanish amongst a group of
children
that shows little to no progress under more standard teaching
paradigms. The
tertiary objective is to allow parents (many of whom are illiterate) to
advance their own educational levels by using their son or daughter´s
machine.
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