User:Dagista

Dalarna University & Royal Institute of Technology_Sweden 
Contents of project proposal

Abstract

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Detail description of Project proposal

General Overview

Profile of the Team

Our team consists of two members.Tesfa Dagmawi Sebsibie, who is currently a student of Dalarna University (Sweden), working his master’s thesis. He has a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering and two masters degree, the first in Industrial Engineering and the second in Mechanical Engineering-which is in progress. He is also awarded a certificate on computer maintenance and Networking. Furthermore, he has four years of work experience at Ministry of Agricultural and Rural development, and at Hormat Engineering Factory in Ethiopia. To mention his most relevant work experience to this project: (1) He worked as junior computer science instructor at Rural Development collage and (2) He worked as the department head of management Information system (MIS) at Hormat Engineering Factory. His professional background and practical experience enables him to support the project technically as well as managerially. Therefore, working towards our OLPCorps project proposal, Dagmawi is the coordinator of the team and responsible for activities related to project leader.

The second member of the team, Tesfaye Demerew Ketsela is a second year masters student at Network Services and Systems program, School of Electrical Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden. Currently, he is doing his master’s thesis on Distributed Real-time Network Management. In addition, he has master’s degree in computer science from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. He is also certified on Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA1, CCNA2, CCNA3, CCNA4), Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP), Oracle10g Database Administration and UNIX operating system. He has five years of work experience as programmer, database and Network administrator position at Ethiopia Electric Power Corporation and involved in many projects. He is also worked as par-time computer science lecturer at different collages. He has very strong knowledge of Networking, database administration and software development with C++ and Java programming languages. Therefore, working towards our OLPCorps project proposal his professional background and practical experience enables him to support the project and fully responsible for technical activities.

Deployment Country and Target School

Hamle 19 primary school, Asella city, Arsi zone, Oromia state, Ethiopia

Communication

Both of our team member can speak the language of the community where we will be working. So,there is no problem with this regards

Deployment, dealing with children and their schedule

There are 120 grade Four(4) students at the school where there will be almost enough laptop to saturate the targated class.
Secured store for laptops, server, accessories and other materials belongs to OLPCORPs team related to the project will be provided by Oromia Development Association(ODA) at main office (Addis Ababa) and at branch office( Arsi zone, Asella City). Furthermore, Our local partner, ODA, who has a close contact and working with the school, community as well as stackholders such as province education offices, teachers, and community representatives. ODA agreed and confirmed on the letter of support to rearrange the available classrooms, desks, benches, office furniture’s and other facilities and/or provide additional if needed to be used for the intended purpose as well as to organize children to return back from summer break for the tutor according to the schedule

Schedule (Listen plan)

S/No	Activities	From	To	Responsible body	Remark
1	Preparing handout for the training			OLPCorps Team
2	setup and configure facilities			OLPCorps Team
3	arranging meeting with school management and staffs, local partners, community representatives, and with other top management body			OLPCorps Team	To create awareness
4	Training of trainers selected from teachers, local partners, Community represetatives, Training of selected teachers			OLPCorps Team	help to support students in case of difficulty after our departure
5	training of students (promote collaborative learning and … provide individualized instruction)			OLPCorps Team & trainers	Teaching students in laptop classrooms in self-directed system
6	support, follow up and monitor students			OLPCorps Team & trainers
7	Assign presentations and multimedia projects to students, and score them using customized, project-driven rubrics and even self-assessments			OLPCorps Team & trainers
8	students as well as teachers gather and move around to work on projects			OLPCorps Team & trainers	this frees teachers to roam about the room helping those who have problems or need remediatio
9	Award to the top students			OLPCorps Team and stackholders	this is accomplished togather with closing cermony

Project Idea

We will work with children by allowing peer collaboration, which grant the opportunity to teach and learn from their peers. We will motivate and assist students to involve their local community using interviewing the community, and/or researching their family. We will also support students, teachers, parents, and concerned experts to join and create new learning networks to improve educational thinking and practices. We will also help students learn using technology and reflect on this learning. We need to engage them in those learning methodologies that are enhanced by connected laptops: the design and construction of personally meaningful objects are using a variety of computational and traditional materials—a more diversified, humanistic, holistic approach to learning than previously was logistically possible. When children bring the laptops home with them, many parents began adult education courses at night using the laptops. Many families chose to move into communities with laptop programs. Children develop the skills to do normal maintenance on their laptops. Most important, though, is that the children engage more deeply in learning and school work over the year; the computer helps deepen this interaction and make quality education critical for human and social development

Our local partners and Future Sustainability of the Project

(1) Oromia Development association (ODA) Arsi branch coordinates education offices, teachers, and community representatives. Even if children’s will be on summer break during our arrival, they will create environment with the community representatives, schools and children that help us to provide a tutor. Furthermore they are ready to fully support the OLPCORPs project financially. Click here to see letter of support from ODA coming soon)
(2) In order to ensure continuos technical support we are partnering with Adama University, Asella Compus with a strong coordination and financial support given by Arsi Farmers cooperative Union(AFCU). Click here to see the letter of support from AFCU coming soon
(3) Ethiopia Engineering Capacity Building :-we will share experiance from the previous deployment project implemented by Ethiopia Engineering Capacity Building and we will try to integrate the previous deployment project with our projct so that our project will be the part of the previous project after august for future sustainability of the project.

Monitoring and Evaluation

We will train students and teachers parallelly, and enabling teachers to fully take care of teaching. Farmers cooperative Union and Oromia Development association as local partners, will take care of the monitoring capable of maintaining the deployment after we leave, oversee and support the program after August assisted by Oromia Development association, which will provide back-up, further training and supervision and which will liaise with the local community

Project's financial needs and brief budget for the project

S/No	Activities	Unit Cost	Total Cost	Remark
1	Transport:Flight 1: Stockholm, Sweden (STO) to Kigali, Rwanda on 06-Jun ' 09 (KGL) Flight 2: Kigali, Rwanda (KGL) to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (ADD) on 18-Jun 09 Flight 3: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (ADD) to Stockholm, Sweden (STO) on 11-sep ' 09	$2,382.00	$4,764.00	+2% possible increament
2	Transport of 100 Laptops, servers and other accesseris form Addis Ababa to Arsi-Asella		$200.00
3	Accommodation in Ethiopia for 10 weeks	$1400.00	$2800.00	Including housing, transportation, food etc
4	Handout for children and teachers	$6.00	$720.00
5	Printer	$200.00	$200.00
6	Accessory material for the server such as cables, server room key	$100.00	$100.00
7	Addational supplementary materials such as map and ebooks	$200.00	$200.00
8	Safety reserve for unexpected events	$800.00	$800.00
	Total		9784.00