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Samsung Electronics donated the first solar-powered internet school for use in South Africa on Tuesday.
The equipment was handed over to the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Boksburg, located in the northeastern region of the country.
The solar-powered Internet school is a mobile classroom created from a shipping container.
The classroom can hold up to 21 students at a time, and is features include a 50-inch electronic blackboard, solar-powered laptop computers with wireless internet connection and Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy Tab tablet computers.
The main server the classroom is connected to also contains curriculum for up to 12th grade, the company said.
All equipment fitted in the mobile classroom is powered by solar panels whose glass components have been replaced with rubber parts for increased durability, the company said.
The classroom is also equipped with power-storage features allowing the systems to run for up to nine hours without sunlight.
By Choi He-suk (cheesuk@heraldcorp.com)
The equipment was handed over to the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Boksburg, located in the northeastern region of the country.
The solar-powered Internet school is a mobile classroom created from a shipping container.
The classroom can hold up to 21 students at a time, and is features include a 50-inch electronic blackboard, solar-powered laptop computers with wireless internet connection and Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy Tab tablet computers.
The main server the classroom is connected to also contains curriculum for up to 12th grade, the company said.
All equipment fitted in the mobile classroom is powered by solar panels whose glass components have been replaced with rubber parts for increased durability, the company said.
The classroom is also equipped with power-storage features allowing the systems to run for up to nine hours without sunlight.
By Choi He-suk (cheesuk@heraldcorp.com)
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