Junior High School students build their own Ubuntu computers

[M. Fioretti]

Greetings,

here's an idea two professors had to involve difficult students and
give them self-confidence, while also promoting Free Software: they
set up a "make-your-own-computer" class, where every student built a
complete computer and installed Ubuntu on it. The course had enough
success that the majority of its participants did not went back to
Windows, _and_ their running a second edition this month.

Full story at http://stop.zona-m.net/node/106

HTH,
	Marco
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