Happy Pi Day everyone! In honor of Pi Day, we are happy to announce that we had 21 volunteers purchase or donate a Raspberry Pi 3 Kit for our new lab at José Vasconcelos in Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán, Oaxaca, México!! A big thank you to everyone who purchased a kit. This fundraiser goes a …
This week in KOC we are full speed ahead on our plans for 2016. The KOC board has approved a new lab at the José Vasconcelos school in Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán, Oaxaca, México. This lab will be built with Raspberry Pis. In honor of Raspberry Pi’s 4th birthday, the Raspberry Pi Foundation released …
KOC is hosting its annual Summit at the KOC House in Pasadena from 3pm-10pm PT on January 21, 2016. We use this time to plan our year and get a few items on our wish list done by working in small groups. We’ll be working on School/Lab planning, Education, Fundraising, …
This week in KOC we are asking our supporters to help us do more. We have built 18 labs across 5 countries and impacted over 5,400 lives in the process. We want to do more. As the year comes to a close, please consider: donating a used, working laptop. Contact …
18 labs, 5 countries, 5400+ lives impacted. Help us do more. Kids on Computers, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, is running an end of year 2015 fundraising campaign to raise money for our existing and potential labs. We are a small group of volunteers who donate their time and funds to set …
KOC is hopping this week: We are currently planning the 2nd annual KOC Summit at SCALE. We are excited to participate at the conference for the second year in a row. Gustavo has identified a new school in Oaxaca City, Mexico. We are working on gathering details about the school. Randy and …
A group of us spent a week in Mexico in June 2015 installing and upgrading computer labs for kids in Oaxaca. This post is about one day during that trip. For this Kids on Computers Mexico trip, we brought 21 laptops and 2 Mac Minis into Mexico from the US. We used …
This is a guest post from Jake Stern, current Peace Corps volunteer serving in Ouled Moussa, Beni Mellal, Morocco where we set up one lab during our Morocco October 2014 trip. His post describes our time at Ouled Moussa including our final day at the lab where we setup networking …
Monday morning we started out with Sasa taking us to Mubrak’s (one of the community leaders) house for breakfast at 8am. He and his wife brought out regular bread, cheese, and another bread which reminded me of a bigger version of the Indian paratha. We also had almonds and milk-coffee. Incredibly …
This is a recap of our June 2014 Kids on Computers Mexico Trip, how awesome it was, what we did, and how it all came together.
