OLPC India/DBF/Bangalore.Parikrma

Your Insight to OLPC Pilot Site at Bangalore

About the Pilot Site

Parikrma Humanity Foundation is a nonprofit company aiming to help the poorest of the poor break their cycle of poverty and to enable them to live meaningfully.http://www.parikrmafoundation.org/ There would 120 XO laptops deployed for their four learning centres.

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  Students awaiting XO at Parikrma school

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  Launching of XO at Bangalore

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  Handing over First XO to the school head KALPANA SINGH

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  A Look at XO

Demographics of the Site and School

Adobe Parikrma Foundation,Bangalore

School Name : Parikrma Center for Learning

Establishment Year : 2003

Education Board : ICSE

Type(Municipal/Government/Private): Parikrma Humanity Foundation (Private)

Location: 7 kms from Bangalore Station (South Bangalore)

Nearest Railway Station: Bangalore

Address: Jayanagar, Bangalore

School In-charge: Kalpana Singh

Affiliation: Parikrma Humanity Foundation, Bangalore

Timings

8.15 a.m. to 4.00 p.m.( Monday-Friday) 08.15 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.( Saturday)

Holiday Calendar: As per Karnataka State Education Department

Number of Teachers/Administration staff: 14

Start of the Project

The foundation has planned to deploy 120 laptops for all its four centres. The laptops would be given to kids of second grade.

Express your Views

Kids at Parikrma Centre,Bangalore

23rd April :- On having the meeting with Parikrma Foundation Founder-CEO and Marketing Head we learned their interest to have 120 laptops for their centre. While the meeting was on and we were explaining them the features of XO laptop suddenly we had their soccer team arrived. There were all smiling faces around because they had won.Atmosphere was really electrifying.And then we had the CEO giving them candies for their achievement.

After that we had a look at their Computer Labs which would be used by the kids to surf internet, play games etc. I was of the opinion that they could have their lab shifted to Open Source OS like Ubuntu etc. We did have a little discussion on it. After that we had look at there e-learning classroom which they have equipped well enough to enable to learning for distant centres.

Key Educational Links

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Educational_activity_guidelines

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sample_learning_activities

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