Category: Project Summary
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Wrapping up in Costa Rica
After a number of late days and even later nights, our time in Costa Rica has come to an end. 11 days and 4 blog posts later, the Box volunteers have wrapped up their final day with facilitators from Paniamor and Ideas en Accion. And what a time it was for everyone involved. In simple…
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Engaging Youth in Creative Problem Solving Skills in Costa Rica
Box, Inc and Team4Tech will be working together to help develop new curriculum centered around engaging the youth of Costa Rica in subjects such as programming, robotics, design, and 3D printing. Read more about the project and team who will head to Costa Rica and start the project this coming Monday, August 21st!
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Troubleshooting and learning from two projects in India
For three weeks in November 2016, Aron Asor (our Software Development Lead) and I represented Learning Equality while working with two partner organizations in India. We spent the first week assisting Team4Tech and volunteers they recruited from Intel to deploy KA Lite and other Information and Communications Technology (ICT) tools in an all-girls rural school…
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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.
