We are making a difference.

 Thank you to the following organizations for making Project Red Dot a reality.

                                                           




1-800-GOT-JUNK? is the world's largest junk removal service.  Project Red Dot was founded by 1-800-GOT-JUNK franchise partner, Mark Rubin in January 2008.  After a successful test period of collecting, configuring and shipping the laptops has been completed, the company plans to expand throughout the Northeast US, with national collections planned for the future.









YTI Career Institute-Mechanicsburg's Network & Internet Security Administration (NISA) program provides the student with the education, training, and skills necessary to assume entry-level and mid-level positions in the computer fields of network security and disaster recovery. Students will work with servers, routers, firewalls, and encryption in both a Windows and Linux environment.  As part of the course curriculum for this program, students will be refurbishing collected laptops.  The staff and faculty of the NISA program, under the leadership of program director Kenny Ream, will be providing the technical knowledge and guidance for the students to troubleshoot, repair and ultimately configure the software needed to have the laptops function under the stated guidelines. 


Ghana Together

Under the leadership of Maryanne Ward, Ghana Together is a Ghana Together is a non-profit organization based in Washington State created to work in close partnership with Ghanaians to improve social, economic and health conditions.  They have been especially focused on the Axim area, partnering with Western Heritage Home (WHH), an NGO registered under the Ghanaian government, to build a children’s home/community learning facility, supporting a program for orphaned children, and providing science supplies to a local public school.  Project Red Dot has designated the first 250 laptops to be distributed via Ghana Together, and the first 10 laptops are now in a computer learning lab at the WHH.  www.ghanatogether.org



An open source that designs and distributes the educational software we will use on the laptops.  The sofware contains an internet browser, word processors, spreadsheets, programming tools, network tools, IM clients, presentation tools, database tool, and everything else a young mind needs to explore the world.  www.edubuntu.org