OLPC Tennessee

Tennessee Grassroots Organization

Goals

• To organize citizens of Tennessee to help bring educational material and tools to Tennessee's poorest communities.
• We hope to improve computer literacy and increase access to a wide assortment of educational curriculum.

Students at Springdale Elementary (Memphis, TN) crowd around an XO

Get Involved

You can sign up for our mailing list at (TO BE DETERMINED)

News

• Several members from Memphis City Schools' Educational Technology Group have been posting articles to their blogs about Springdale's grant proposal. Feel free to read up on it:
  • Cindy's article about the XO
  • Linda has written 1 2 articles about the XO at Springdale Elementary
  • Jason has a good article about the Classmate PC

Regions in Tennessee

Though we are working on a state-wide initiative for OLPC in Tennessee, it may be more helpful to break-down Tennessee into 3 distinct regions, revolving around Tennessee's major cities and school districts.

• Eastern Tennessee/Mid-South (Memphis)
• Central Tennessee (Nashville)
• Western Tennessee (Knoxville)

Grants

• BEP Innovative Programs and Planning Grants was denied