The Voice

Issue date: 11/8/07 Section: Arts and Entertainment

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The Association of Computing Machinery is a student run club sponsored and supported by the Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics Department at Bloomsburg University. We are conducting a fund-raising activity to help provide laptop computers to students around the world.
Most of the nearly two billion children in the developing world are inadequately educated, or receive no education at all. One in three does not complete the fifth grade.
The students of the ACM want to do something to change this.
The One Laptop Per Child campaign hopes to "provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment and express themselves." OLPC will accomplish this task by building affordable computers with wireless Internet access capabilities for school children. Countries such as Rwanda, Pakistan, Uruguay, and many others have joined in. More information on the goal and logistics behind OLPC can be found at www.laptop.org.
On November 9th, our ACM students will host a Wii Sports tournament to raise money on behalf of the OLPC campaign. The tournament has a $5 entry fee and is open to the public. Local organizations have donated prizes. For every $400 raised, the OLPC's "Give 1 Get 1" program will provide a laptop to a student in a participating country and give a second laptop to the donor.
ACM students can use this laptop to explore software development for educational applications. Funds raised in excess of the $400 threshold will be contributed directly to OLPC.org.
Even if you don't play computer sports games, you can help too! Please consider contributing $10, $25, or whatever you can afford to help fund one or more of these laptops. Cash donations (and entry fees) may be sent care of the ACM advisor, Dr. Robert Montante.

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