Project Type: Education
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Extending Design Thinking to Education in Vietnam
Stanford University’s d.school is considered one of the most innovative educational institutions out there, with its core philosophy of Design Thinking. As an undergraduate from Stanford’s Product Design program, I spent four years studying Design Thinking in the context of product design for both developed and developing markets. So, what does this Silicon-Valley-born methodology have to do…
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Reflections from Box’s Sameera Salari
Box is a company that prides itself on the connectedness and productivity that good technology can bring to the day-to-day lives of our users. Along with other volunteers from companies like Visa and Facebook, three Boxers were able to deliver on this vision to some of Vietnam’s most underserved citizens. Liz Tacy, Lauren Ziskie and…
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Introducing Box Technology in South Africa
Far removed from the shipping container in the Langa Township outside of Cape Town, Team4Tech alumni, Nic Hansen and Nathan Lui, continue to support the work they started back in July. Overlooking a sea of hundreds of their Box coworkers in Los Altos, CA and live streaming to the smaller office in San Francisco, Nic…
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Building a Better Infrastructure For The Tanzania Schools
It wasn’t too long ago that I received an email from Noel Durrant (our project team leader). We got on the phone later that week to discuss the details of the trip and while this was exactly the travel experience that I’ve been longing for, there were still uncertainties of safety, financial expenses, and “Is…
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Converting a Shipping Container into a Computer Lab in South Africa
90 minutes before, I didn’t know how they would get there. Noella was delayed over an hour by someone cutting the train’s power cables. Thank goodness she arrived prepared with a lesson plan clearly outlined on paper. But what about Ani? While clearly a capable professional, was she reverting to traditional techniques under pressure? We…
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Determined to Learn
The penultimate day of the Langa Learning Center project arrived, and I could feel a growing sense of accomplishment and completion. We had come to Cape Town, South Africa to help the LEAP Science and Math Schools and the NGO Teach With Africa to create a new technology lab in the Langa township that their…
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Deploying Computer Labs in Schools in Tanzania
Our latest Team4Tech returned from Tanzania in mid-November. We were there with five volunteers from Intel, four from Intuit, and two from Facebook to help World Vision deploy computer labs in the first two of 14 schools in their northern Tanzania project. The team also supported a week of business skills training for entrepreneurs at…
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The Python of Thika – Andrea’s Skills-Based Volunteering Experience in Kenya
Meet Andrea Ramirez, Research & Development engineer at VMWare, passionate agile practitioner, and soft-spoken, tenacious problem solver who successfully swam from Alcatraz to SF and just took on the Python of Thika. Andrea went to Kenya to expand opportunities for education for children around the world and explore the implications of deploying western technology in…
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Expanding Educational Opportunities for Children in Kenya
Volunteering in Kenya with Team4Tech was one of the most profound personal and professional experiences of my life. It was a tremendous privilege to utilize my technical skills to be part of Team4Tech’s vision to expand opportunities for children by improving the quality of education around the globe.
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A Collection of Blogs from the Thika Tech Project
Thika, Kenya here we come! This blog is to document the Intel Education Service Corp in Thika, Kenya. Hopefully all our friends and family will enjoy following our adventure!
