Category: Project Summary
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Developing Maker Mindsets in Vietnam
Background: 168,000 children in Vietnam are orphans or have been abandoned. Many spend most of their childhood years in government facilities. Few of these children graduate with basic computing skills, greatly limiting their employment options, and even fewer go on to attend university. Partner: Kidspire Vietnam is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to support children…
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Scaling STEM education in Rwanda
Goal: Support GGAST teachers and students as they further their design, presentation, and computational thinking skills. Background: In Rwanda, 97% of girls go to primary school, but less than 34% attend upper secondary school and only 8% graduate. Secondary school capacity is very limited, allowing only the girls with the highest test scores to…
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Creating Replicable Capacity Building Workshops for Rainforest Conservation in Ecuador
Goal: Design and deliver capacity-building workshops to a group of Rainforest Trust’s nonprofit partners from Ecuador and neighboring countries. Background: Since 1988, Rainforest Trust has protected more than 20 million acres of tropical habitat across Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific and has projects underway that will protect an additional 28 million to achieve…
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Increased Student Engagement in Rural Cambodia
Goal: Extend CARE’s project to provide minorities in rural areas with technology-based education. 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 10 Box volunteers returned to three schools to train CARE Cambodia staff, ICT…
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Advancing the Teachers and Students Digital Media Skills in Cambodia
Goal: Conduct workshops and utilize toolkits on design and media skills at CCF’s NCA. Background: At the Steung Meanchey garbage dump in Cambodia, hundreds of children use to scavenge through garbage or beg on the streets to survive. The garbage dump was closed in 2009 but this community continues to live in extreme poverty. Partner: Since…
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Launching the first maker space in Uganda
Goal: Working with WITU to give young women in Uganda quality digital education. Background: Over 60% of the population in Uganda is below the age of 30, and 74% of Ugandans between the ages of 15-25 are unemployed. The majority of them are young women who have either dropped out of school or did not…
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Expanding Opportunities in Vietnamese Orphanages
Goal: Enhance the learning experience for students with Kidspire by rolling out new a number of new programs. Background: 168,000 children in Vietnam are orphans or abandoned. Many spend most of their childhood years in government facilities. Few students graduate with basic computing skills, greatly limiting their employment options, and even fewer attend university. Partner:…
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User Research & Product Design for Agriculture Planter in Senegal with Autodesk
Goal: Expand the reach of myAgro’s useful and women empowering precision planter Partner: myAgro’s mission is to move smallholder farmers out of poverty. myAgro has developed a mobile layaway system that is based on habits and behaviors that are already part of smallholders’ lives. It relies on scratch cards –similar to mobile phone credit.…
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Implementing the Use of Technology Centered Bootcamps in Paraguay
Background: Founded in 1985, Fundación Paraguaya (FP) is a self‐sufficient, nonprofit, social enterprise spearheading microfinance and entrepreneurship in Paraguay. FP develops and implements practical, innovative, and sustainable solutions to eliminate poverty, creating decent conditions for all families. The program, Poverty Stoplight, is a new poverty measurement tool and coaching methodology that assists families to self-diagnose…
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Piloting maker activities at a new innovation lab in Vietnam
Goal: Support Kidspire in developing new maker activities and spaces. Partner: Kidspire Vietnam is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to help children living in orphanages build skills for productive employment after they leave the orphanages when they turn 18. Kidspire Vietnam’s innovative program features a student-centered learning environment and a curriculum focused on coding, circuitry, and robotics.…
