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AGENDA:
* Fast Review of the 6 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals -- please
join us advocating for, and/or reviewing shortcomings of these proposals:
1. SaigonOLPC - Somerville, Massachusetts & Vietnam
2. Columbus School for Girls requesting broken XOs for parts - Ohio
3. OLPC Bahamas
4. Amadou Basse Sall Primary School OLPC Edu Prjct - Dagana, Senegal
5. Lap-Swap: Integrating Technology for Education - Tempe, Arizona
6. Ntugi/UCC: Kenya, Canada
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1. SaigonOLPC - Somerville, Massachusetts & Vietnam
http://saigonolpc.wordpress.com
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=63763
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Requests 2 XO-1.5s over 2 months
Project Objectives:
Improve children’s education and their skills at Ba
Chieu Shelter in Saigon. Phase two is needed to follow up on how
actively girls are using the Xos and how much should be taught to them
to make them feel comfortable to sue XO in everyday life.
Ba Chieu Shleter is a role model for other Shelter in the city
It is a pilot project in the South of Vietnam, a part of Vietnam OLPC
project. This project is important in building OLPC community and
raising awareness of Open Source Software and XO laptops
2. Columbus School for Girls requesting broken XOs for parts - Ohio
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=63782
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Requests ? XOs
Project Objectives:
The main objective of this project is to interest and engage high school
girls in computer science through this hands-on, real-world, socially
relevant service learning project. Our school typically only fields
2-3 students in any given computer science class we offer, and they
are always the same 2-3 students. This project attracted over 40
students initially, which is almost 15% of our student body. The
service learning trip is the “hook” I needed to interest many
students in something they might not otherwise discover.
By all accounts, our first trip was a phenomenal success, with many
girls now interested in pursuing programming or other computer science
work. This second year, I will require more hardware work from the
students, so these broken laptops will help provide the equipment I need.
3. OLPC Bahamas
http://olpcbahamas.blogspot.com
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=64038
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Requests 2 XO-1.5s over 3-4 months
Project Objectives:
We have a serious lacking in the area of education here in the
Bahamas. Our national average is a D+. I want to promote education
through technology and give the Bahamas a new industry of computer savvy
people working with technology and bringing us as a country into the
21st century.
4. Amadou Basse Sall Primary School OLPC Edu Prjct - Dagana, Senegal
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=64118
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Requests 30 XOs over 24 months
Project Objectives:
- Provide school children with access to computer understanding and usage
- Use computers for pedagogical purposes
- Stimulate exchanges with another local school as well as enhance the
current pedagogical cooperation with a French primary school based in
Britanny (29920 Nevez France)
Headmistress: Mrs Dominique Puloch
- Capitalize on computing skills of one of the schools’ head masters who
will train the school teachers
- Take advantage of the existing limited computing infrastructure: 4 PCs
with internet access
- Involve pupils’ parents through allowing the children to bring XOs
home for their homework
- Stimulate Information exchanges within the local community*: town
administration, welfare center… on topics related to nutrition, health:
protection against malaria, schistosomiasis or vision deficiencies.
These diseases are a major issue in the region and lead amongst other
problems to school absenteeism.
- Helping families suffering from poverty and low education level with
administrative tasks, making XO an essential tool: The children, with
the help of their school teachers, will help the family write a letter
or a request for example. The draft could be sent through the Internet,
thanks to the PCs we have.
5. Lap-Swap: Integrating Technology for Education - Tempe, Arizona
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=64161
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Requests 2 XOs over 12 months
Project Objectives:
My business concentrates on on-site IT support for local
homeowners and small business owners. Over the years I have
discovered that
when a laptop dies or becomes outdated to a customer's needs,
customers wish
to just replace the hardware rather than repair old technology. These
laptops are discarded, where they could be re-used by local schools
or other
non-profitable sanctions. More importantly however, I have identified a
unique opportunity to donate a portion of my profits to a cause I truly
believe in, OLPC. For each "Swap" I generally earn approximately $300-350
for delivering the hardware, setup, data transfer, software installation,
and network setup. I believe that a portion (~$75) can be donated per
"Lap-Swap" in an effort to donate one laptop per every 2-3 Lap-Swaps I
perform in the field. Additionally, older hardware can be donated for
re-distribution to local needy organizations such as lower-income schools
and cooperating non-profits. This plan should help all stakeholders
involved
as described below:
. Business owners (myself) - I receive a profit to continue business
and an incentive for customers to adopt my service
. Clients (my customers) - Receive quality customer service and
hardware, a tax write-off on their donated hardware, and the
knowledge that
they are helping a worthy cause
. Beneficiaries from donations (the children that receive the
laptops) - Beneficiaries receive hardware on a monthly donated
basis; my
hope is to increase this to many laptops per month
. The surrounding community and environment (donations of modern
computers and safe disposal of used electronics) - I safely dispose of
unusable hardware to avoid landfills absorbing the impact and
donate/repair
usable hardware for donation to local agencies
. Society as a whole (tax generation and general advancement of human
intelligence through technology) - Taxes from my business support my
community and hopefully a new understanding of the technology and
education
cycle is adopted. Human intellectual advancement through
technologies such
as computers is my ultimate goal.
6. Ntugi/UCC: Kenya, Canada
http://www.ntugischool.com
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=64188
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Requests 10 XO-1.5s over 10 months
Project Objectives:
We hope to purchase 100 1.5's later this year, 50 of which will go to
Ntugi in Kenya, and 50 of which will be used in the ICS3U computer
science course here at UCC. In preparation for that...
1) We want to test out the 1.5's here in Toronto
2) We hope to take all 10 laptops to Kenya on July 13th to work on
the following:
- Measure the data pull at the newly constucted computer lab and outreach
centre at Ntugi
- Use Vernier sensors to develop shared curriculum in Biology,
Chemistry, Physics and Environmental Studies
- Determine how to install USB microscopes on the 1.5 for use in both
Canada and Kenya
- Expand blogging to include regular video blogging and creative-writing
co-blogging between our two schools
- Use Google Docs shared spreadsheets to share science data and analysis
measured on the ground in both our locations
- Explore the potential of the 1.5 for using Java applets and
applications
for simulation and analysis in Science
- Expand of the 'Horizons' mentoring program to bring Ntugi secondary
students to the two local primary schools in anticipation of the
repurposing of the current 30 XO 1.0's
- Explore the potetnial of the 1.5 for use with USB GPS and Google Earth.
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