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One for All will benefit the Boston community, the Boston-student community, and the international third-world community. Specifically, One for All will help the Boston community by providing a major grassroots, educational outreach program. Volunteering at the Cambridge Friends School, we will guide both teachers and students on best practices of using the laptops in and out of the classroom. In the future, we plan on not only continuing our pilot program at the Cambridge Friends School, but also expanding our Boston-outreach to other elementary and middle schools in the area in order to generate a formal outreach platform that can be tailored to fit the needs of schools in Boston. Further, One for All acts as a catalyst for discussion about cost-effective computing for children within the Boston community. Additionally, One for All will benefit college students in the Boston area by first and foremost, providing an opportunity to participate in a hands-on technology-oriented, educational service organization. Volunteering for One for All would provide students with teaching experience in a local and/or global setting. Further, we would provide a forum for students to discuss how interactive technologies may be introduced to young people all over the world. Lastly, One for All will benefit the international developing world community by creating a formal link between the ambitious OLPC computer distribution program and the creation of an institutional training program. Currently, there are only two known organizations that develop curriculum for the XO laptop and share it with the international community: Waveplace Foundation, which serves the Caribbean; and, Open Learning Exchange, which serves Nepal. Since there are over 700,000 XO laptops in more than 20 countries worldwide, we believe that One for All has the true potential to play an essential role in teaching classrooms, teachers, and students how to fully utilize this new technology.