Project Type: Education
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Pivoting to a Digital Model in Tanzania
Every child deserves access to quality education yet more than half of the world’s children are not learning critical math, literacy, and life skills. If current trends continue, by 2030 more than 750 million young people will not be on track to acquire basic secondary-level skills. A global teacher shortage, estimated to reach 69 million…
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Promoting STEAM Innovation at Kidspire 2019 Project
Kidspire Vietnam Propels Orphans Forward with Quality Education In Vietnam, children living and growing up in orphanages receive very little support in helping them to prepare for their futures after leaving the orphanage. These orphans have little exposure to the outside world beyond their school and almost no access to technology. Public school class sizes…
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Launching a mentoring and teaching program in Rwanda, Kenya, and Malawi
Goal: Team4Tech partnered with Dartmouth, UC Davis, and Middlebury to provide opportunities for university-level students to meaningfully engage by helping to expand digital learning. Dartmouth College and the University of California, Davis, joined Middlebury College this year in this third year of partnership with Team4Tech to provide immersive service-learning programs for students interested in technology…
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Scaling a Digital Literacy Program in Ghana with NetApp
Goal: Worldreader will have the resources to replicate, enhance, and sustain its digital reading programs such as the Ghana District Scale project. Background: 82 percent of the world’s learners are not in school because of COVID-19. To address this urgent need, Worldreader accelerated the release of its new app for school-age children, BookSmart, which features…
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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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Providing IT and Technology Resources for Schools in Alaska
The Yukon-Koyukuk School District (YKSD) encompasses nearly 65,000 square miles and serves ten villages, of which eight villages can only be reached by air or river travel. 85% of its students are home schooled and the district faces high teacher turnover (30 – 50%), high internet costs ($16k per month per site), and cultural differences…
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Advancing Media Design Skills in Cambodia
Goal: Advance media design skills with CCF in Cambodia. 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 2004, the Cambodian Children’s…
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Building Capacity for Leadership and Growth
Pure Storage employees built capacity for Kidspire’s staff as leaders in Vietnam through a virtual mentorship. 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…
