OLPCorps Masinde Muliro University Kenya

Revolutionary change in education through young children We are Masinde Muliro UniversityMasinde Muliro University students in Kenya and we are interested in working with primary school children of age 6-12 through collaboration program using Xos Laptops and create a movement of education change and sensitization of the impact of Xos and ICT on children of age 6-12 , thus world and locally support OLPC in education change to this children and teaming up with other teams in different areas across the Globe. The children whom we intend to deploy the project to will be in school from May to end of July, but normally the children are always free from 2:00PM every school day, making it easier to undergo the project and also Saturday and the whole month of August the will be free. Dealing with children schedule the team will be free after April as the University student go for long-term Holiday until the last week of August The school that we plan to deploy The XOs is located in Kakamega town in western province ,the same community that the University is located in. The school already has a free classes that the project can use and installed electricity recently, which will be easier for our deployment of the XOs. The school is 3 kilometer from the university and 800 meters from IEARN head Kenya head office. Our local partners will be IEARN(International Education And Resources Network) which already is initiating a project on Animation voice for change and are so eager to supporting financially and technically and also overseeing the project deployment and when we leave in maintenance and sustainability through the country headquarters in the Kakamega town. We also have 100% support from our University in the deployment, maintenance and technical support, thus overseeing project after the 9-10 weeks program. We also have support from the ministry of youth affairs in the country through the province office. They are supporting the project through deployment and after the team leaves. Victoria Institute of Science and Technology in Nairobi is also supporting the team and the project in General with technical support. We are also looking for support from G7 system organization that we hope to support the project funding and connection of secure internet and monitoring of the Project. The 230 Kg package will be stored either in the University or IEARNIEARN ORGANIZATION premises in the community town.. The project will impact the children very much to the sense that it is open source , the children is not confined in a given routine to learn but through interest and eagerness in using an XOs and owning one . This creates a sense of responsibility to the child and this will open more by the connection to a network and thus exposing to plenty and refined materials which will lead to attaining of the OLPCorps Principles, which will revolutionary change in the education from the fact that is a student led project. Thus the team is also eager in working the schools teacher and undergraduate student in the University to se is if we can came up with an open source software’s as learning materials and trying to merge some of the school syllabus and the XOs . The teams also look forward to expanding the team and even be able to involve more organization to enable extensive deployment and encourage research and support in this venture through the University and other organization and also the Government through the ministry if education. The team is ready and looks forward for this project.