Big smiles spread across the faces of the 160 pupils at a public elementary school in the rural South American hamlet of Villa Cardal, Uruguay. Each sat gawking at a brightly blinking laptop computer given them days earlier. “This is like an early visit from Santa Claus,” beamed 11-year old Eduardo de los Santos, clutching his computer with its shiny white case and bright green trim. The machines are the first in South America from the much-publicized One Laptop Per Child project.
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Original post by Alfonso Castiglia and software by Elliott Back
