With Intel-powered classmate PCs, students everywhere are gaining 21st-century skills and applying them to transform their communities. From enabling research to save local farms from infestation to doubling high school attendance, the effects of the classmate PC are substantial.
Stories of positive impact
All across the world, students are using Intel-powered classmate PCs to improve their experiences at school and at home. Here are just some of their stories.
Family farm saved (India):
Curiosity and Internet access helped a fifth-grader to identify the "lifesaving" solution to eliminate insects threatening the family crops.
Eleven-year-old entrepreneur (Mexico):
A boy who was allowed to take his classmate PC home found he had a knack for numbers and began to manage his parents' small business.
School attendance surges (South Africa):
Increased student engagement in one school has more than doubled attendance to 90 percent in only two months.