Iman F

Description of your chapter. Where are you? What are your goals? What kinds of projects/meetings do you do/support?

    We are located in the Saint Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists in Saint Paul, Minnesota. My project, through the school group, would—optimistically—accomplish the following two goals:

1) Our primary goal is to establish a lending library at my high school, Saint Paul Conservatory, as well as at our local library, Hennepin Oxboro Library. In my community of East Bloomington, an overwhelming amount of young middle and high school students I would meet at school or at the local public library are suffering in school because their family could not afford to keep a computer at home. For the lending library, we would require ten laptops. The school would provide me with tech officials to maintain the renting computers and a base to store and lend them from. I also have potential “lending library” clients from the school administration as well. These laptops could be rented and used by low-income students from my school in need of a computer as well as low-income students from my community in need of a computer. Students would have to write a detailed application to use the laptop and would receive it for no more than one week at a time. 2) For my second goal, OLPC has given me permission to use their name and logo in a music video/Public Service Announcement (PSA) that urges viewers to help close the digital divide by donating to OLPC. This would be a music video and a public service announcement, spanning about five minutes and featuring music I’ve already composed and a script I’ve already written. The stars of the video would be actors and instrumental musicians from my OLPC university group of about ten students. The video would be filmed using professional equipment—in the film competition I’ve recently won, I gained access to the Independent Film Producers’ Association, which allows me to take a class with them and have access to all of their equipment. The ten computers I request would also be used as props in the video.

The university group has already been formed with full support of the Saint Paul Conservatory administration. We would like to form the lending library by October 19th, in time for students to begin to study for their midterm exams. The video will be filmed by November 1st; provided that we have the OLPC laptops as props.    

Upcoming events

Octobe 19th: Lending Library Established. October 25th: Filming date for Public Service Announcement. November 1st: Submit Public Service Announcement.

Projects

Lending Library; Public Service Announcement.

Ongoing Projects

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• Project 1
• Project 2
• Project 3

Past projects

(these should be wikilinks)

• Project 1
• Project 2
• Project 3

People

President: Iman Fears Officer: Hannah Duggan Officer: Emma Gerch

XOs on campus

We have sent a proposal requesting ten XOs.

Meeting minutes

30 minutes a week, Thursdays at noon.