Waveplace finishes pilot program in Nicaragua
17 Nov
Over the summer, three volunteers from Waveplace spent three months at Campo Alegria teaching children from our elementary school in Buenos Aires how to use the XO computers, furnished by One Laptop per Child. The course involved 22 children learning to create visual stories through computer programming. About a month ago they entered ten of Campo Alegria’s childrens’ stories into a worldwide contest. Judges from seven continents voted to name students from the Campo Alegria program winners of both 1st and 2nd places!
Adam (the full-time staff member at Campo Alegria) writes, “News traveled via word of mouth and soon after the pilot program had ended, the government tracked me down to ask me to head up an intiative to train 3,000 children across Nicaragua on the same technology. Of course I said “Yes” and last week we held our first class for the 40 schools selected… We are in talks with Wavepoint about them coming back down to Nicaragua to work with us on training the schools in depth on specific software for computer programming, math, and writing.”
Check out this video that was created to highlight the Nicaraguan Wavepoint pilot program.
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