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== Cal OLPC Team ==
== Cal OLPC Team ==


To engage the local community in a sustainable manner and provide knowledge-sharing at every stop of this process, half of our team will consist of local university students in Lusaka. As the International Team works to find resources and partners for the deployment, our counterparts in Zambia will begin working with local primary schools. Over the summer, the two sides will come together and work with our direct role partners
To engage the local community in a sustainable manner and provide knowledge-sharing at every part of this process, half of our team will consist of local university students in Lusaka. As the International Team works to find resources and partners for the deployment, our counterparts in Zambia will begin working with local primary schools. Over the summer, the two sides will come together for mentorship and a knowledge-transfer of technology, resources, and local community information.


'''International Coodinators'''
'''International Coodinators'''

Revision as of 23:40, 17 March 2009

Cal OLPC

Participating School: University of California, Berkeley

Deployment Location: Lusaka, Zambia

OLPCorps Proposal

In Progress.


Cal OLPC Team

To engage the local community in a sustainable manner and provide knowledge-sharing at every part of this process, half of our team will consist of local university students in Lusaka. As the International Team works to find resources and partners for the deployment, our counterparts in Zambia will begin working with local primary schools. Over the summer, the two sides will come together for mentorship and a knowledge-transfer of technology, resources, and local community information.

International Coodinators

Position Name University Major
Project Coordinator

& Logistical Lead

Jessica Yueh UC Berkeley B.S. Business Administration &

B.A. Development Studies(in progress)

Technical Lead Jack Chi Rice University, UC Berkeley


Pedagogical Lead Laura Keys Washington University in St. Louis, UC Berkeley


Political Lead/Advisory FORGE International NGO Staff advisers: Abby Speight, Kjerstin Erickson

Local Coordinators

FORGE Education Fund (FEF) sponsored refugee university students

Project Ideas

Details to come!