A Low-cost Elementary school computer lab Usin Surplus NASA equimpment

摘要

This project was initiatedas a result of an addrss by NASa adrministraor Dan goldin at KSC in 1995, in which he advised KSC employees to bacome involved in educatio nas a critical goal for the future. In my work as an emergency physician i come in constant contact with children and teenagers in Florida, and have observed that a growing percentage have difficulty with simple verbal communicatin and lack the basic skills requiredto achieve success in technologicallydemandingcareers. This is most ocmmonly a problem with children from poor backgrounds, a growing percentage are permanently disenfranchised form our vision ofthe future and are likely to become a costly and destabalizing factor in futrue society.