Stateside

The summer has come to a quick end! I plan to keep working on ¡Hace Sol! at Hampshire, and propose a Fulbright for 2012..more to come!

Photos from La Rioja, Argentina

Thanks for following!! :)

Still here.

I have been busy visiting schools with XO laptops! Wrapping up my internship here and still working hard on Hace Sol.

hacesol.org

I'm proud to (finally!) launch hacesol.org !! We now have an official online home, which will be critical for funding the project. Feel free to leave feedback here!!

Uruguay

I am now in Montevideo with Federico (also with OLPC)! I'm checking out the solar projects that have been installed here with the XO, and Fede is looking at adaptations for students with special needs.

"¡Hace Sol!" will have a website in the next few days..so stay tuned!!!!

Germany

Too much!

¡Vamos, vamos!

The octavos start today!

Tomorrow is Arg v. Mexico..thought I'd post a short video from the plaza after Demichelis scored #1 against Greece..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8CV-7pAyDM&fmt=22

The Green Light

I've officially received the green light to go ahead with my project:

¡Hace Sol!

With luck, I'll be delivering solar panels to every student without access to electricity in La Rioja. It's the kind of project I've always wanted to get involved with, and I'm really ecstatic to have a purpose here! I will try to launch a website soon, but for now we are looking at costs and logistics...there are a few options to make this happen, and several panels are actually designed specifically to fit the XO!

¡Hasta pronto!

¡Vamos, Argentina!

The World Cup is here! I'd love to upload some longer videos, but internet is usually too slow.. :/

The Little Green Machine

We're hard at work in La Rioja, where our small team is designing projects to carry out over the next few months!

My hope is to look at a set of indicators, and evaluate which ones will most effectively assess the impact of the laptops in primary schools. Hopefully, I'll be able to return to La Rioja and recollect data well after the laptops have been deployed...

More to come! Again!

Buenos Aires

Made it! I've always wanted to get here, and now I'm finally in Buenos Aires. It is a beautiful city, but tragically I only had a day to roam around. In a few hours I'll catch a bus to La Rioja--a state in the northwest of Argentina where I'll be working for One Laptop per Child.

I have a hard time blogging, so PLEASE PLEASE comment whenever you can! It would be great if this space turned into a conversation..I really don't want to build a cyberego, if that's even possible. I'm sure it is.

http://tinyurl.com/39uhzrg

More to come...

Pics, at last!

Hey all,

I've finally uploaded pics from my trip..thanks again for following !

http://tinyurl.com/y9y577x

Matt