- 10-Apr-2017
- Social Entrepreneurship
- IT
Advancing STEM Education
Abstract
Sayans is a not for profit organization located in Mpigi district, Uganda. We can loosely be described as a student’s companion to STEM education where resource deprived students and teachers access computers containing off-line educational resources, fun games and other fabrication and prototyping tools. The ability of the students to research and design their own projects while teachers develop project based lesson plans and engage students in learning, is our main selling point.
Sayans holds true to its vision of having a strong workforce of young Ugandans who are passionate, develop science and technology into businesses, and engage in the worldwide open-source community.
Schools in the network are required to pay an annual minimum membership fee agreed with the schools and considering the conditions of the schools. We plan to grow the network of schools in the second year and as the network of schools grows, we shall be able to sustain our operations.
Sayans hopes to find $50,000 to scale up and officially launch Sayans in December this year.