By Carol Sanders, Winnipeg Free Press
Sometime next year, 320 elementary school kids in Nelson House will be toting shiny new laptops to and from school. The First Nation community was the only one in Manitoba selected to receive computers for many of its kids by the One Laptop Per Child pilot program. About 5,000 aboriginal children across Canada will receive laptops. “This is really going to raise the roof, as far as learning goes for the kids,” said principal Balan Menon at Otetiskiwin Kiskinwamahtowekamik — “OK” School — located 813 kilometres north of Winnipeg. He learned Wednesday his school’s application was chosen by the program, funded by the Belinda Stronach Foundation, private companies and the Ontario government. Menon said he didn’t know when the laptops will arrive but a spokeswoman for the program said it won’t be until January.
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