---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lindsay Michimoto <lindsaym@cs.washington.edu> Date: Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 08:36 Subject: [Cs-grads] FW: EWB-UW reaching out to CSE graduate students To: cs-grads - Mailing List <cs-grads@cs.washington.edu> Hello student of Computer Science Engineering Department! Engineers Without Borders is looking for CSE students! Have you heard of One Laptop Per Child? This project and organization was created by faculty members of the MIT Media Lab in 2005. They began with the initiative to develop a $100 laptop computer to revolutionize how the world's children are educated. The One Laptop Per Child organization oversees the actual deployment of these computers. Their mission: "To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning." For more information about the history/status of One Laptop Per Child: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child#History EWB-UW is seeking members (new or past) to form a team working to develop educational programs for these laptops. Tim Johnson, a professional member of the EWB-Puget Sound Professional Partners chapter brought up this idea a few months ago. It turns out, at their website (OLPC), you can apply to contribute a project, for example developing software: Check it out: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Contributors, http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developers What can you do: - Attend the meeting regarding this project - Join the team - If you're really interested, step up to lead the team The meeting will be next Thursday 10/29 @ EE Building Room 403 @ 5:30pm - 6:30pm. Tim Johnson, the lead for the Grain Mill project will be running the meeting. Please email me if you would like to be added to our general email listserve so you can receive the email reminder about this meeting I hope this email finds you well and you are excited to be involved! Thanks for your time! Elaine Chao EWB-UW Secretary UW Chemical Engineering