[IAEP] Letter to GPA Parents

[Anurag Goel]

looks pretty good to me.

On 7/30/09, Caroline Meeks <caroline at solutiongrove.com> wrote:
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> First draft - Comments? Suggestions? Do you think I put in too much
> background information?
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> Dear Parent,
>
>
> Your child will take home from camp a USB stick and a CD that they used in
> school this summer.  Their work this summer is the first part of a school
> wide program to use “Sugar on a Stick” at the GPA.  The GPA will be the
> first school that uses a USB stick to bring Sugar home.
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> Sugar is the name of the software and you can learn more at
> www.sugarlabs.org.  Your kids are the first ones to use it on a USB stick
> but almost a million kids are using it on the “One Laptop per Child”
> computers in countries like Peru and Uruguay.
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> If there is a computer at home the students can try to use Sugar.  We will
> teach them how to do it in class.  It may not work on your computer yet.
> The stick may also stop working at some point. That is fine, we are doing a
> pilot test and we know there are still problems.  We will work all next year
> to make sure it works for all students.
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> Please have your student bring the stick back to school on the first day of
> school regardless of whether or not it works.
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> The kids all had a wonderful time working with Sugar this summer and
> produced some amazing things!  Pictures of their work are up on the web:
> We may also be creating some videos that will include your children and
> their work, if you have signed a release form.
>
>
> If you would like to know more about Sugar and our plans for the Fall or if
> you’d like to volunteer to help in the fall please email
> caroline at sugarlabs.org
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>
> Thank you and we look forward to meeting you all in September!
>
>
> Sincerely
>
> Caroline Meeks
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> Sugar Labs
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> Instructions for booting your computer with Sugar.
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> Put in the CD
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> Turn off the computer
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> Plug in the USB
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> Turn on the computer
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> If you have a Mac, hold down the “c” key as it starts up and as you hear
> the chime.
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> Please don’t be frustrated if it doesn’t work! We’ll figure out why and fix
> it this fall.
>
> --
> Caroline Meeks
> Solution Grove
> Caroline at SolutionGrove.com
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> 617-500-3488 - Office
> 505-213-3268 - Fax
>
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Anurag Goel
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