Uruguay’s “Plan Ceibal” has transformed education in its country, and now some other countries across the continent are looking up to it. Uruguay has been quickly recognised as one of the countries with the best response plan to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was also prepared to continue providing quality education for all of its students. However, Uruguay's national virtual educational program, Plan Ceibal, was put in place long before quarantine – over a decade ago, in 2007. Ana Maleplate was in the first generation of Plan Ceibal kids. “Well, it made us all connected and using computers in class,” she said. “I got the first computer that came out.” In just five years, the World Bank confirmed that Uruguay “managed it”: “all 300,000 students in the country’s public schools each have their own computer.”Among its many programs, Plan Ceibal also comes with a national online learning platform, Crea. Gabriel Ramos Machado has been teaching through Crea for more than two years, and explains a little bit of the evolution: “When they started with the Ceibal program, it was giving out those ceibalitas, a kind of 'No One Left Behind' sort of thing – one laptop for every child, so all children, even in the most rural areas, and regardless of their socioeconomic situation could have access to technology, to being able to learn more technology with the laptops. Then it just kept expanding."