Hi Kyra, Your program last fall was lovely - I was showing it around at an event at NYU last weekend - and this Nokia piece sounds fabulous.
The college corps is called OLPCorps, and is running its first year of matching international student teams with schools this summer : h ttp://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPCorps As for a competition, how about OLPC t-shirts for every student in the winning class? we could have it be a random draw among all classes with 100% participation - so that it's about getting involved, not about how much you donate (which is the essential message of your idea). Intervarsity, it could be similar : we could highlight the school with the highest % of participation in each of a few size-groups (<200, 201-500, 501-2000, 2000+) with a similar 2-minute spot and a poster signed with thanks by the staff... what do you think? Sam. -- 617 529 4266 http://wiki.laptop.org/go/user:Sj On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Kyraocity<[email protected]> wrote: > Last Fall 2008, two of my cultural anthropology courses and I devised a > campaign to encourage entire classes at Baruch College, where I teach, to > donate ONE LAPTOP PER CLASS. The project is designed like this: For less > than $10 per class member or instructor, each class collaborates to donate > $199 laptop. We haven't figured out all the incentives for participating > yet, but with only 2 sections in the beta project last fall we raised over > $650 and donated 3 laptops. We created a viral video to promote it > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSWu6CLVL6Y. This was all done the last 2 > weeks of classes before finals. Participants were amazed. > > A few weeks ago, Nokia decided to do a social responsibility ad about me and > my students and the OLPC donation project we created. Just saw the final cut > of the 2 min documentary yesterday it is amazing. It is supposed to go > national in 1-2 weeks. It features a conversation with students about the > OLPC project, why laptops vs. food, and what participating in the project > means as students at Baruch College which is one of the most diverse > institutions in the U.S. with students from over 120 different countries who > speak over 100 different languages. > > Would love any suggestions on > > How to make this competetive among our 700 classes. Do we compete for > highest percentage of class participation, the largest donation of any > class, and/or by division (we have three schools within the > college--business, arts&sciences, and public affairs)? > The viral video is designed to encourage other colleges and universities to > compete. Any one here want to play with us and compete with Baruch College? > This would be an inter-varsity sport. > I heard that OLPC is launching a college program this fall. Anyone know > where I can find out more about this.S omething like a college corps for > OLPC. > > Will keep you posted on the Nokia launch. > Best, > Kyra Gaunt > Assoc. Professor, Cultural Anthropology & Black Studies > Baruch College-CUNY > New York, NY > > > -- > - > Kyra D. Gaunt, Ph.D. > 2009 TED Fellow http://www.ted.com/index.php/profiles/view/id/27884 > > Dare to be different - Agree to be Offended & Stay Connected (TM). Embracing > difference and racism is an opportunity to be courageous no matter what. > > "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one > persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress > depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw > > > > _______________________________________________ > Grassroots mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots > > _______________________________________________ Grassroots mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots
