iSTART.Education

Kenya: STEM Frontier 2012

A 21st Century Model of Success

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In May of 2012, in conjunction with the LEGO Foundation, STEM4Kenya Education (Now known as START) piloted a unique project that would identify Kenyan schools as leaders in the move toward innovative educational models for teaching STEM in Africa.  Utilizing LEGO Education materials, including LEGO MINDSTORM Robots and innovative STEM materials from USA based PITSCO, founders Matthew and Kathy Collier teamed up with Kenyan teachers and administrators over several years to establish STEM and robotics in Kenyan schools. Among the first schools involved in the early pilot trainings were Alliance Boys High School, Njoro Boys High School, Precious Blood Girls High School, Alliance Girls High School, Larmudiac Provincial High School, Mount Kenya Academy, the Green Garden Schools, and Mustard Seed Schools. Here is a video link of the impact of that launching in 2012 of Kenya: STEM Frontier: http://vimeo.com/45280771

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Pictured above, On the left Njoro Boys High

School; on right, Teacher training at Thogoto Teacher College

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Some of our achievements:

 

 

Green Garden Girls High School Robotics Team (Pictured with First Lady Margaret Kenyatta on our homepage) – The girls robotics team, a team birthed and mentored through our Kenya: STEM Frontier program, is the first school from the entire continent of Africa to win a trophy during the FIRST World Robotics Tournament in the USA, April, 2018.

 

 

Alliance Girls High School, grand champions at the 2019 Kenya FLL Robotics Tournament – the all girls team went on to represent Kenya at the FIRST World Robotics Tournament in the US in April, 2019

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​​In 2016 we introduced Arduino to 3 pilot schools - Alliance Boys, Alliance Girls, and Njoro Boys.

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In 2019 we successfully started an Ltd. called Solutions To Achieve Real Transformation or START. With our Kenya team and US team we began to develop materials that would teach STEM to any student anywhere. Even without electricity! 

One of our motos is MADE IN KENYA FOR KENYA. Our goal was to make the highest quality product at a reasonable price.                                                                                                      

For more information, call or email:

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Wilson Kihanda (Kenya)

Phone: +254 796 893051 

Email: wilson.kihanda@istart.education

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