Proposal

(This is what the Cornell Team had)

Description of Mauritania: geography, ethnicity, culture, history
- Facts (Statistics from the CIA factbook) about Mauritania: poverty, literacy rates, internent access
- How XOs can impact the people of Mauritania
City they are working in, facts: location (distance from capital, etc), population, description
- Our contact within the town: who, what he does, skills he has, children he works with
- Schools we will be working with: grades, number of children, etc
What the children will do with the laptops
- Benefits the laptops will bring to the children
- How the family will benefit
- Possible curriculum ideas
- Language the children speak (Arabic and Frencg?)
- Set up correspondence with local school in America; pen pals
Logistics: the students are on break, who the teachers will be. Will we get backing of the local community?
- Sustainability: We will teach adults? teachers? volunteers? How to use the XOs. How long our ground contact will be in that area. Will we hand over the project to the administrators of the school?
- Transportation of laptops, security issues, language barriers