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Community Connections planning 2008 Tacna trip.
We are currently in the early stages of planning our next trip to
Tacna for May 2008. We are hoping to include faculty and students from
other departments in this year's trip as we expend the services
provided and the educational opportunities for USF students. Check
back here for more details.
Fifth Peru Expedition expands partners at USF and in Tacna.
In March, 2007, we conducted our fifth trip to Tacna, Perul In
addition to continuing our partnership with Colegio Miguel Pro and
Colegio Cristo Rey, we also began to work with Centro de los Ninos
Trabajadores, an organization that works with Peru's working
children. We were also excited to include faculty from other
departments for the first time, including Pam Redmond from Education
and Steve Morris from Business, along with Service-Learning Director
Julie Reed. Please see the trip page for more details.
Fourth Peru Expedition continues to build bridges between USF and Tacna.
In March 2006, we returned to Tacna, Peru for a fourth trip with 13 USF students and faculty. As wth the 2005 trip, or goals consisted of both infrastructure improvements and education, focusing primarily on the teachers at Cristo Rey and Miguel Pro. The 2006 trip also included our first Education student, Paul Cartier, who conducted a PhotoVoice project designed to encourage students to write and reflect about their lives. Please see the trip page for more details.
Third Peru Expedition focuses on Education, upgrades.
In March, 2005, we returned to Tacna to focus on upgrading and configuring the labs at Miguel Pro and Cristo Rey, and also to teach classes on the use of technology in the classroom. (see the trip page for more details.) At this point, both schools have Internet access via a local DSL provider and are well on their way to bridging the digital divide!
Satellite Internet Planned for March 2005
One of the schools, Miguel Pro, is still without high-speed Internet. In conjunction with the Peruvian government, USF hopes to provide Miguel Pro with satellite Internet during the March 2005 trip. The government will give a free connection to a school that has the hardware to receive it; we are tentatively planning to acquire that hardware and bring it down with us in March.
Second Peru Expedition Successful
The second group of USF students has returned from Tacna, Peru after spending three weeks setting up the network at Miguel Pro providing technical support and training to both Miguel Pro and Cristo Rey.
Right: students at Miguel Pro use the computer lab.
More information is available in the June/July 2004 section.
USF Students Set Up Computers at Two Tacna Schools
USF Computer Science students, professors, and alumni teamed up with University Ministries to improve the technology at two schools in Tacna, Peru. We visited two K-12 schools, Cristo Rey and Miguel Pro, where we installed approximately 100 computers, refurbished existing computers, and networked both schools.
Two USF professors, David Wolber and Chris Brooks, accompanied nine USF students to Tacna, Peru for a week during spring break. The project was initiated by USF alumni Alberto Yepez and Teresa Win. Alberto grew up in Tacna and attended Cristo Rey.
More information is available in the March 2004 section.