The need
Whangaparāoa College has a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policy, but by senior year students taking technical courses need a relatively powerful device to run the software supplied. Some students have difficulty arranging this, and it limits their subject choices.
Some of the school’s top students were struggling, not through lack of effort or knowledge, but because they didn’t have the same devices as their peers. The goal was laptops with a 2 GHz processor and 16 GB RAM for photography and design classes, to close the gap of digital inequality in the classroom.
This is where The Laptop Drop started: the first four laptops, from EROAD, went to design students here.