University program

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This is a page to discuss and brainstorm about the design of a future University Program where interested students and professors can create OLPC University Chapters at their schools. Please edit, contribute, add!

Benefits

• An "XO lab in a box" - some number of spots (3? 5?) in the developers' program so the students can have machines to play/experiment with (note: not sure if this is possible yet)
• Connections, networking, etc. with others in the OLPC community (not that you can't do that without a university chapter, but this lowers the activation energy for people to join in)
• Announcements about research, internship, etc. opportunities for OLPC work
• A good excuse to work on OLPC for credit :-)

Activities

• Participate in the Classrooms for free culture program
• Run Jams at your school
• Take on OLPC projects as class projects/assignments for CS, engineering, education, history, language, etc. classes - see Andy Barry's X(I/O)_Reconfigurable_Gaming_Input_Device, Arjun's Measure project ideas for some examples
• Serve as mentors for younger students making content, software, hardware, etc

Ideas

Expand beyond universities - high schools, elementary schools, etc. might want to help

They could always be part of the chapter by their local college - great mentorship opportunity for the college students.