As Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child project revs up, we’re starting to hear more stories from schools in developing regions that have already handed out the low-cost computers. Here’s a report from Villa Cardal, a small Uruguayan town, courtesy of Engadget.
About 160 schoolchildren in Villa Cardal got the bright-green laptops, and the machines were greeted with a “mild frenzy,” Engadget reports. The blog also links to a gallery of pictures taken during the big laptop giveaway. —Brock Read
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