CHILD EDUCATION TEAM - GHANA
Our team consists of Emma, Apurva, Viktor, Stan, and Mikayla.
DAY EIGHT | THUR JAN 17th 2019 | ACCRA, GHANA
In the morning we attended a meeting of the Ghana STEM
Network alongside Connie, our trip leader and founder of the Exploratory, and
the Exploratory’s program manager, Favour. The meeting was hosted by the Ghana
Education Services to bring the Ghana STEM Network together to share their
work. At the meeting, all attendees presented about their work, which was a
great opportunity for us to learn about STEM education here and get into
contact with those leading the efforts to make STEM education more practical
and hands-on. We were also able to demo the different versions of the
Brightbox, answer [questions, and receive feedback from other attendees.
Everyone seemed really excited about the potential of the Brightbox in Ghana
and many of those in attendance were also educators. It was very encouraging for
us to see their enthusiasm for the Brightbox since they had so much knowledge
and experience working in Ghana.
We were also able to meet Charles Ofuri, who created The
Science Set (a low-cost, portable science lab) who had a lot of expertise with
materials and manufacturing in Ghana. He helped us identify a material called
strawboard as a sturdier alternative to corrugated cardboard that is easy to
get in Ghana. He also helped us identify that we wanted to investigate printing
presses and die-cutting here.
Students from our team discussing the Brightbox with
members of the Ghana STEM Network
We also did another round of testing with teachers in the
afternoon, this time focusing on a comparison between the MDF, cardboard, and
paper boxes. We received a lot of very helpful feedback from our teachers and a
lot of information about how our boxes can be used to better integrate their
science and BDT (Building, Design, and Technology) classes.
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