One Laptop Per Child/South Carolina is a statewide partnership between the South Carolina Department of Education and the non-profit Palmetto Project.

More information at:  http://laptopsc.org/

As soon as I heard about the OLPCi project in late 2007, I wanted to research what others were saying before I jumped ahead to make a purchase. There were varying comments on several discussion boards.
One comment suggested that the XOi laptops are ‘not compatible’ with the usual Microsoft software and that children who would seek employment in adulthood would not be able to function if they did not know how to use Word or Excel.

I had the opportunity to test one of these laptops and even my 3 year old son can utilize it in a basic sense. "Compatibility" is really not an issue.
The laptop teaches more free and creative thinking than regular machines.

Draft Executive Summary

The strength of our unique offering is based on a partnership and synergy between five successful business and non-profit entities with excellent complementary educational skills and experience, including:

Nicholas Negroponte keynote at Harvard University
Posted by Charbax in Nicholas Negroponte on August 13, 2007 - 9:31 am |
Nicholas Negroponte speaks about the One Laptop per Child project (OLPCi) at Internet and Society 2007, a conference at Harvard University, Berkman Center for Internet and Society. For more information, click here:
http://olpc.tv/2007/08/13/nicholas-negroponte-keynote-at-harvard-university/

By DAVID POGUE
Published: October 4, 2007
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In November, you’ll be able to buy a new laptop that’s spillproof, rainproof, dustproof and drop-proof. It’s fanless, it’s silent and it weighs 3.2 pounds. One battery charge will power six hours of heavy activity, or 24 hours of reading. The laptop has a built-in video camera, microphone, memory-card slot, graphics tablet, game-pad controllers and a screen that rotates into a tablet configuration.
Stuart Goldenberg

The OLPCi Mission: To provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment and express themselves.
The project's origins go back more than four decades to the early days of computing, when most machines were still the size of small dinosaurs, and almost no one dreamed they would ever be suitable for children. But pioneering thinkers like Seymour Papert disagreed sharply, and over time led the long march from radical theory to reality proving the immense power of the personal computer as a learning tool for children.