[OLPC-NYC] Boston Book Fest - OLPC invite! (Sat Oct 16)
Holt
holt at laptop.org
Thu Sep 30 03:37:44 EDT 2010
Welcome to all those screwdriving folk who joined our Boston Community Saturday September 18 (almost 30 of you!) during that singularly amazing repair fest at OLPC:
http://abdimom.tumblr.com/post/1147859637/olpc-repair-training-fest-cambridge-mass-part
http://abdimom.tumblr.com/post/1148085173/olpc-repair-training-fest-cambridge-mass-find
http://abdimom.tumblr.com/post/1148145522/olpc-repair-training-fest-cambridge-mass-part
In just 2 weeks, on Saturday October 16, we ask OLPC Bostonians to take your dedication to learning public -- celebrating the Boston Book Fest right in Copley Square, Boston.
One Laptop per Child is contributing a full tent arrangement, and we could *very much* use enthusiastic book-lovers (in 3 shifts!) explaining the power of OLPC to spark minds globally -- in Your words:
8 - 11am Erecting Posters & Tent, earlybird Snacks?!
11 - 2pm Lunch
2 - 5pm Afternoon
Bring vivid proof of your very own OLPC/Sugar learning/artistic projects to share if you can :-)
We'll have roughly three tables, and 3 posters with great photos, along with live Internet. The tables will cover:
= book-readers (the event theme!) such as those from the new http://olpcCanada.com
or Uruguay/Ceibal, and specific book collections (including health)
+ OLPC's global reach (photos! and languages)
# cool kids websites (including math and games)
* local projects that Boston OLPC'ers can talk about, such as the
new OLPC Australia / http://www.digiliteracy.org project, and
Sugar on a Stick classroom trials in Somerville, Massachusetts
% repairs & hardware (someone from Olin College hopefully!) Showing off a
brand-new blue Uruguayan High School XO, solar power, new keyboards, ETC
Please get in touch if you can hang out / help out any part! Whether chatting up the friendly general public -- in the very shadow of one of the world's foundational libraries (bpl.org) -- or better yet sharing your Own dreams. About when & how You believe "quality universal basic education" will enrich, instead of deplete, our Mother Earth?
So long as you also bring along your lifetime favorite book or e-book...
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