Category: 2018
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Impact Highlights from Team4Tech’s CARE Cambodia 2018/19 Projects
Cambodia’s ethnic minority population has historically been marginalized from accessing services including health and education. There are 24 minority ethnicities, the majority of which live in the north-east of Cambodia. To serve the ethnic minority youth in the rural province of Ratanak Kiri, CARE Cambodia launched the Know & Grow initiative. Since 2015, CARE Cambodia’s…
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Impact Highlights from Team4Tech’s CARE Malawi Project
Malawi is one of the least developed countries in the world. One of the major causes of this underdevelopment is low literacy levels, particularly for women. Although Malawi has made significant progress for many children, the path to completing an education is marked by immense hurdles. Nationally, out of the 32% of girls who even…
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Developing a Coding Curriculum in Bulgaria
Goal: Develop a comprehensive curriculum for Micro:bit (donating 900 Micro:bits) and MIT App Inventor Background: Coding is rapidly becoming the most important universal language. Across the world, students are encouraged to learn how to code from an early age and in Bulgaria, programming became an official part of the third-grade curriculum. The CoderDojo Foundation was…
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Supporting the Digital Leap in Montana
Background: Taking the digital leap is particularly challenging in rural school districts that have limited resources, limited access to broad technical expertise, and limited access to high-quality professional development. Team4Tech partnered with the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) to offer professional development to teachers and support for technology leaders in rural school districts in accelerating…
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Implementing STEM Technology in Vietnam
Goal: Enhance technology usage with Kidspire programs Project: In November 2018, Team4Tech supported Kidspire Vietnam through 10 Pure Storage employee volunteers. During the two week visit to Vietnam, the volunteers were able to implement new technology to help Kidspire teachers and students. Video:
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Developing a Digital Literacy Program and Solutions in Cambodia
Goal: Install RACHEL servers to ensure students access to content with CARE. Project: As a part of CARE Cambodia’s Know & Grow Project to serve ethnic minority adolescent girls and boys in the rural province of Ratanak Kire, a team of Box volunteers empowered the CARE Cambodia staff, ICT Core Trainers, teachers, and students from…
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Piloting Maker spaces in South Africa
Goal: To Spearhead LEAP’s strategy for developing their youth’s head, heart, and hands by further integrating technology and maker spaces into the curriculum Background: In South Africa, the education system is estimated to produce just one university graduate for every 100 children who start Grade 1. Youth unemployment rate is close to 50% and 8.3…
