Tech Soup
DECEMBER 1, 2014
Going to school and playing with friends are usually the only things on a child's mind, and normally not in that order. Brian Westerman and his wife Pepper created the Kosch-Westerman Foundation over two decades ago with the mission of connecting terminally ill children to their classrooms through technology. A Sickening Discovery.
Tech Soup
DECEMBER 1, 2014
Going to school and playing with friends are usually the only things on a child's mind, and normally not in that order. Brian Westerman and his wife Pepper created the Kosch-Westerman Foundation over two decades ago with the mission of connecting terminally ill children to their classrooms through technology. A Sickening Discovery.
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Tech Soup
DECEMBER 1, 2014
Going to school and playing with friends are usually the only things on a child's mind, and normally not in that order. Brian Westerman and his wife Pepper created the Kosch-Westerman Foundation over two decades ago with the mission of connecting terminally ill children to their classrooms through technology. A Sickening Discovery.
Get Fully Funded
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In the donor’s mind, they can’t close the loop on the gift until they receive a receipt. If the donor’s gift was used to buy laptops, a photo of students on the new laptops will hit the right note. You answered our call for donations so students could move off our waiting list and into classrooms.
Museum 2.0
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But last year, over Thanksgiving, I sat next to a man who was working on his laptop (not an activity that invites conversation), creating a presentation on elementary education and technology. A former superintendent of such a district, he explained the basic premise to me: each student, from kindergarten on, has a personal laptop.
Non Profit Quarterly
DECEMBER 14, 2021
This is not new, but it was on the minds of our volunteer managers, and in a big way. This was part of the national conversation when schools pivoted to online classrooms, which catered to families with reliable internet, ample supply of modern devices, and space to use them. Here’s what they had to say.
Tech Soup
JUNE 22, 2015
The Kosch-Westerman Foundation connects terminally ill children to their classrooms through technology. No one would expect to have to protect terminally ill children from hackers, but co-founder Brian Westerman discovered that some of the kids the foundation was helping were being spied on through their laptop cameras. Image 7: St.
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