User:Ndoiron

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I am a volunteer for The Kasiisi Project in Uganda and the Digital Literacy Project in the Boston area. In the fall, I will be a senior at Carnegie Mellon, studying civil engineering.

Contact

Please edit the talk page or e-mail ndoiron _at_ cmu.edu

Current Work

  • Teaching an environmental technology class with The Kasiisi Project near Fort Portal, Uganda. I will be keeping a blog to document use of the laptops with mapping, weather sensors, water quality tests, and solar power activities.
  • Making lesson ideas for Digital Literacy Project in Cambridge, Boston, and Nicaragua. Helping to supply useful content and activities.
  • DNA Lab showing inherited traits through phenotype (cartoon lizards) and genotype (simulated DNA strand)

Prior Work for the XO

  • Mapping applications, introducing students to GIS and mapping


OLPCorps

Technical lead for an OLPCorps team - unfortunately our team was rejected, but we made it to finalists

See my team's OLPCorps proposal here: OLPCorps Carnegie Mellon/Teachers' College/Williams College Kenya