Category: Project Summary
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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…
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Reflecting on Monique’s Tanzania experience
Monique Edmondson, a Cisco volunteer on the Tanzania project in August 2015, kept a fantastic daily blog while in-country. The following is an excerpt from one of her posts, and the complete blog can be found here.
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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…
