Saturday, November 03, 2007

Hiro is a geek and a Hero


"...Masi Oka, also known as "hey, that's the guy from Scrubs", has just been "chosen" to be the OLPC Global Ambassador. His qualifications? Being a huge nerd kid (he was on a cover of Time for genius kids because his friend's dad was the photographer), working as a nerd at ILM (even while shooting Heroes), and looking like a nerd—three qualifications we meet as well...
(for non geeks, ILM is a special effects company).


Businesswire has this:

OLPC was founded by MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte to design, manufacture and distribute laptop computers that are sufficiently affordable to provide every child in the world access to new channels of learning, sharing and self-expression.

Being a part of a global effort that is enabling children to learn, grow and succeed in life is both tremendously gratifying and important to me, said Masi Oka. Im very excited about this opportunity to represent One Laptop per Child and bring my love of technology and education to the global community.

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