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Dalarna University & Royal Institute of Technology_Sweden 
Contents of project proposal

Detail description of Project proposal

General Overview

Profile of the Team

About us
Our team consists of two members.Tesfa Dagmawi Sebsibie, who is currently a student of Dalarna University (Sweden), working his master’s thesis. He posses a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering and two Master's Degree the first one in Industrial engineering and the second in mechanical Engineering-which is in progress. he has also awarded a certificate on computer maintenace and Networking. Furthermore, he has four(4) years of past practical experience while he was in his home country (Ethiopia) at Ministry of Agricultural and Rural development as well as in ministry of Defence. To mention some of the positions (1)He has worked as Junier computer science Instructor at two of the colleges and (2) He has also worked as the department head of management Information system (MIS)at Hormat Engineering factory. The above professional background and practical experiance will help him to support the project technically as well as managerially. Therefore, working towards our OLPCorps project proposal, Dagmawi is the coordinator of the team and he is responsible for activities related of project leader.

The second member of the team is, Tesfaye Demerew ketsela is currently a student of Royal Institute of Technology(KTH),Sweden doing his master’s thesis on distributed real-time network management. Furthermore he has a double masters degree, the first one is in computer science and the second one is in Network services and systems-which is in progress. He has also taken Short term IT trainings and certifications on CCNA1, CCNA2, CCNA3, CCNA4 and CCNP1, Oracle10g Database Administration, UNIX operating system, As/400 iseries Concepts and Facilities. He has five(5) years of practical experience on different position at Ethiopia Electric Power Corporation and other institutions as programmer, Computer Instructor and Database Administrator with a strong knowledge of software development with C++, RPG/400 and Java programming languages as well as Networking. Therefore, working towards our OLPCorps project proposal his professional background and practical experiance will help him to support the project technically as he is fully responsible for technical activities related of project.

Team Name

Ethio_Swed_ OLPCorps Team

Deployment Country

Ethiopia

Target School

Arsi Kersa primary school, munesa district

Target Class

kersa primary school of grade four students (Grade 4)

How will we work with children

we will work with children by allow peer collaboration.This will give children the opportunity to both teach and learn from their peers. we will assist students to involve their local community using interviewing the community, and/or researching their family. we will also support students, teachers, parents, and concerned experts to join and create new learning networks to improve educational thinking and practices as OLPC ensures that we will have our own laptops and high-bandwidth connectivity. We will help students learn using technology and reflect on this learning. We need to engage them in those learning methodologies that are enhanced by connected laptops: the design and construction of personally meaningful objects using a variety of computational and traditional materials—a more diversified, humanistic, holistic approach to learning than previously was logistically possible. when children bring the laptops home with them, many parents began adult education courses at night using the laptops. Many families chose to move into communities with laptop programs. Children develop the skills to do normal maintenance on their laptops. Most important, though, is that the children engage more deeply in learning and school work over the year; the computer helps deepen this interaction. make quality education critical for human and social development

Address how we will deal with children and learning with their schedule

we have arranged with our local partner known as ODA, who has a close contact and working with the school, community as well as stackholders such as province education offices, teachers, and community representatives has promised and confirmed on the letter of supportto arrange meetings which help us to create awareness as well as to organize children to return back from summer break so as to provide tutor according to the schedule. Furthermore, ODA also promised to arrange and provide facilities such as classrooms, desks, benches and office furniture’s. To arrange a schedule for the avalability of student during this period

Schedule (Listen plan)

S/No	Activities	From	To	Responsible body	Remark
1	Preparing handout for the training			OLPCorps Team
2	setup and configure facilities			OLPCorps Team
3	arranging meeting with school management and staffs, local partners, community representatives, and with other top management body			OLPCorps Team	To create awareness
4	Training of trainers selected from teachers, local partners, Community represetatives, Training of selected teachers			OLPCorps Team	help to support students in case of difficulty after our departure
5	training of students (promote collaborative learning and … provide individualized instruction)			OLPCorps Team & trainers	Teaching students in laptop classrooms in self-directed system
6	support, follow up and monitor students			OLPCorps Team & trainers
7	Assign presentations and multimedia projects to students, and score them using customized, project-driven rubrics and even self-assessments			OLPCorps Team & trainers
8	students as well as teachers gather and move around to work on projects			OLPCorps Team & trainers	this frees teachers to roam about the room helping those who have problems or need remediatio
9	Award to the top students			OLPCorps Team and stackholders	this is accomplished togather with closing cermony

Who is Our local partners?

Our local partners are:-
(1) Oromia Development association Arsi branch
(2) Eteya Farmers cooperative Union
(3) Arsi Kersa primary School
(4) Asella Teachers Training college

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How will we follow-up (Supervision)

We will train students and teachers parallelly, and enabling teachers to fully take care of teaching. Farmers cooperative Union and Oromia Development association as local partners, will take care of the monitoring capable of maintaining the deployment after we leave, oversee and support the program after August assisted by Oromia Development association, which will provide back-up, further training and supervision and which will liaise with the local community

Letter of support from the local partners

Here are letter of support from our local partners
(1) Letter of support from Oromia Development Association Asri Branch
(2) Eteya Farmers cooperative union
(3) Arsi Kersa Primary School
(4) Asella Teachers Training College

Where will you store the equipment during the deployment

secured store for laptops, server, accessories and other materials belongs to OLPCORPs team related to the project will be provided by Oromia Development association main office Addis Ababa and Branches( Arsi kersa town)

Describe your project's financial needs and provide a brief budget for the project

S/No	Activities	Duration	Unit Cost	Total Cost	Remark
1	Transport:Flight 1: Stockholm, Sweden (STO) to Kigali, Rwanda (KGL) Flight 2: Kigali, Rwanda (KGL) to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (ADD) Flight 3: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (ADD) to Stockholm, Sweden (STO)	06-Jun ' 09 (14 hr 40 min) 18-Jun ' 09 (2 hr 30 min) 11-sep ' 09 (19 hr)	$2,111.70	$4,223.40	row 1, cell 6
2	Transport of 100 Laptops, server and accessories (shipping cost)				row 2, cell 6
3	Internal Transport (to and from the target place as well as to/from the airport in the host country)				row 3, cell 6
4	Accommodation in Ethiopia	row 4, cell 3	row 4, cell 4	row 4, cell 5	row 4, cell 6
5	Expenses for teachers, Selecte Community members and volunteers	row 5, cell 3	row 5, cell 4	row 5, cell 5	row 5, cell 6
6	Expense for training and Food/drinks/handhout	row 6, cell 3	row 6, cell 4	row 6, cell 5	row 6, cell 6
7	a specific learning project which requies funding (e.g. transportation, materials, etc)
8	repair and maintanence costs	row 6, cell 3	row 6, cell 4	row 6, cell 5	row 6, cell 6
9	monthly internet connections	row 6, cell 3	row 6, cell 4	row 6, cell 5	row 6, cell
10	Training Workshop in Rwanda	row 6, cell 3	row 6, cell 4	row 6, cell 5	row 6, cell
11	Cost for food in Ethiopia	row 6, cell 3	row 6, cell 4	row 6, cell 5	row 6, cell
12	operating costs of the partner school	row 6, cell 3	row 6, cell 4	row 6, cell 5	row 6, cell

Financial support after August

we will provide financial support by integrating the project”Basic Non-formal education which helps to improve alternative basic child education between the age of 7 and 15” that has been runnig by ODA which is much related to OLPCORPs project. so, financial support will be provided by ODA and they are ready to fully support the OLPCORPs project.

Research your university's grant programs, student associations, alumni networks, and other avenues of funding to sustain your deployment

we are discussing with our partnering institution to find funding to sustain the project

Communication - do you share the language of the school or community where you will be working

The languge of the community is our native languge so there is no problem with this regards