University program

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This is a page to discuss and brainstorm about the design of a future University Program where interested students and professors can create OLPC University Chapters at their schools. Please edit, contribute, add!

Benefits

• An "XO lab in a box" - some number of spots (3? 5?) in the developers' program so the students can have machines to play/experiment with (note: not sure if this is possible yet)
• Connections, networking, etc. with others in the OLPC community (not that you can't do that without a university chapter, but this lowers the activation energy for people to join in)
• Announcements about research, internship, etc. opportunities for OLPC work
• A good excuse to work on OLPC for credit :-)

Activities

• Participate in the Classrooms for free culture program
• Run Jams at your school
• Take on OLPC projects as class projects/assignments for CS, engineering, education, history, language, etc. classes - see Andy Barry's X(I/O)_Reconfigurable_Gaming_Input_Device, Arjun's Measure project ideas for some examples
• Serve as mentors for younger students making content, software, hardware, etc

Ideas

Expand beyond universities - high schools, elementary schools, etc. might want to help

They could always be part of the chapter by their local college - great mentorship opportunity for the college students.

Interested schools

If we can get at least 10 schools (with at least half of them outside the USA) that want to form chapters, we can start planning in earnest. Perhaps we can even launch before the start of the fall semester (end of August).

• Olin College (USA) - Nikki Lee