Category: Project Summary
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Designing and Building Projects With Social Impact in Rwanda
I’d been in Rwanda for only forty-eight hours on Team4Tech’s latest project and already I’d heard something completely unexpected. I was talking with a local man who said, “I feel my government is working for me every day. I pay taxes, but each day I know what I…
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Building Creative Confidence with Students in South Africa
But having the technology is only half the battle. Teaching people HOW to use it, which implies that it first must be working properly, and helping them reach the point where they WANT to use it, is where the idea for the Makupula E-Club comes in.
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Inspiring The Next Generation With Classroom Technology in Costa Rica
From June – July, 2016, a team of VMware Costa Rica employees collaborated with Paniamor Foundation on a Service Learning Accelerator – a pilot program developed by the VMware Foundation in collaboration with Team4Tech.
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Empowering Teachers in Rural India With Technology
Monkeys, power shortages, and cold conditions didn’t deter a team of VMware people and teachers in Northern India from integrating technology into the classroom. Earlier this year, a team of VMware people embarked on a Good Gigs Trek—the VMware Foundation’s leadership program—in collaboration with CARE India and Team4Tech. VMware recently released the blogpost and video…
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Educating and Empowering Orphans in Vietnam with EdTech
In March 2016, two Adobe principal product managers joined our project as eager volunteers, to return to the orphanages of Vietnam with our partner Orphan Impact and bring human centered design thinking to their technology and career planning curricula. As part of their storytelling and reflective practice post-project, Tom and Cathi used the innovative tools…
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Challenging Students To Develop a Better Water System in South Africa
Earlier this week, a group of Autodesk volunteers returned to Kayamandi in South Africa as part of Team4Tech, to work with local high school teachers to integrate technology into their classrooms. Below, learn how they worked with Stellenbosch University students to tackle a local design challenge.
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Extending Digital Literacy and English Skills Through New Technology in Cambodia
For the last two weeks of March 2016, Team4Tech immersed 10 volunteers from enterprise software company Box in the educational landscape of Siem Reap, Cambodia. Our objective: strengthening the capacity of the local education nonprofit Journeys Within Our Community (JWOC) to enhance the quality of their programs by integrating digital resources and technology-assisted tools.
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Team4Tech and Autodesk Return to South Africa to Advance 21st Century Skills in the Classroom Teams to Further Integrate Design and Technology for Teachers and Students
SAN FRANCISCO, April 4, 2016 — Team4Tech and Autodesk announced today that a new team of staff and volunteers will return to South Africa this April to implement tailored training and technology solutions for teachers and students from the Kayamandi Township. In partnership with the Greater Stellenbosch Development Trust (GSDT), 10 international volunteers will provide 45 hours of tailored coaching for 30…
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Building Digital Literacy Among Girls and Teachers in India
In total, we spent 54 workshop hours with 14 teachers and coordinators from CARE India and Udaan schools from three states. The immediate beneficiaries of the project will be the 100 girls Udaan Hardoi admits annually. However, the number of potential beneficiaries is over 16,000 learners, as the teachers and coordinators we trained from the…
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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…
