Author: Mehreen Butt
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VMware Volunteers Share what the Project Taught them about Leadership
Nine VMware employees traveled to Diepsloot Township near Johannesburg South Africa in July 2015 to work alongside teachers of LEAP Science and Math Schools. Their project was to inspire the next generation with classroom technology. Each volunteer reflected on what the trek taught them about leadership. Read more about it on the VMware RADIUS blog and follow the VMware Careers…
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Reflecting on the Wrap-up of the Kayamandi Project
As we wrapped up our August project in Kayamandi, near Stellenbosch South Africa, we had a closing celebration with our hosts and teachers. There we recognized the teachers’ accomplishments and were treated with a wonderful performance from the school choir. And we heard this thank you message from Ms. Incosi Kakulu of the Makupula High…
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Generating Excitement with Tinkercad in South Africa
Sarah O’Rourke, Senior Product Marketing Manager for the Consumer and 3D Printing at Autodesk, was one of our recent volunteers for the Stellenbosch, South Africa August 2015 project. She is wonderful with kids, brought suitcases worth of 3D printed pieces and circuit training boards for the teachers and kids to experiment with, and even donated…
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How Companies Can Innovate Their Giving and People Development Programs
This guest blog post was written by Mark Horoszowski and his team at MovingWorlds, a global platform that connects skilled volunteers with social impact organizations around the globe.
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Advancing Teaching and Learning at Diepsloot township in Johannesburg
On Sun Jul 26, 13 VMware trekkers said our good-byes to one another and to the students and teachers at LEAP Science and Maths School in Diepsloot, Johannesburg, South Africa. This was my first project after joining Team4Tech in April 2015, and it was life-changing.
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Learning to Develop and Expand Businesses in Brazil
After spending two weeks working with entrepreneurs in Brazil, I met 6 amazing people who each had an interesting story that inspired me. They covered a range of businesses from the most traditional (retail), to digital (fitness app developer), to the more unique (camping tent remodeling). Each had a story and dream that they believed…
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Enterprising Small Business Entrepreneurs in Brazil
A hug? Are you kidding me, a small business owner just gave me a hug. After spending two days with him covering business model canvasses, marketing fundamentals, innovation design and financial sustainability, he gave me a hug. He and I became friends, I became a coach, and he became an inspiration. He so appreciated the…
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What is Success?
Here at Team4Tech, we’ve spent a lot of time lately thinking about what success looks like and how to measure it. Our mission is to improve the quality of education with technology and technology volunteers, and we’ve completed 10 projects in the past two years with over 100 amazing volunteers, reaching 10,000 students and teachers…
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Extending Design Thinking to Education in Vietnam
Stanford University’s d.school is considered one of the most innovative educational institutions out there, with its core philosophy of Design Thinking. As an undergraduate from Stanford’s Product Design program, I spent four years studying Design Thinking in the context of product design for both developed and developing markets. So, what does this Silicon-Valley-born methodology have to do…
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Reflections from Box’s Sameera Salari
Box is a company that prides itself on the connectedness and productivity that good technology can bring to the day-to-day lives of our users. Along with other volunteers from companies like Visa and Facebook, three Boxers were able to deliver on this vision to some of Vietnam’s most underserved citizens. Liz Tacy, Lauren Ziskie and…
