Physically Active Youth (P.A.Y.), an afterschool program in Katutura, Namibia, provides extracurricular activities to children in underprivileged communities. Our goal was to provide educators at P.A.Y. with professional development resources to facilitate the implementation of a robotics curriculum. We created professional development, student interaction, and technical training resources. Through surveys and interviews, we found preferred teaching methods that increase student engagement in STEM topics providing new tools to teach and build STEM curricula for underprivileged Namibian youth.

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Creator

• DiRuzza, Elizabeth
• Marsh, Daniel P.
• Fisher, Andrew W.
• Benoit, John M.

Subject

• Inclusion
• Project-Based Learning
• Community
• Innovation
• Learning

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-051321-153136
• 24436

Keyword

• Pedagogy
• Robotics
• Project-Based Learning
• Curriculum
• Africa
• STEM Education

Advisor

• Smith, Alexander D.
• Burnham, Nancy A.

Year

• 2021

Center

• Windhoek, Namibia Project Center - IQP
• STEM Education Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• Physically Active Youth

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• 4 - Quality Education
• 5 - Gender Equality
• 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
• 10 - Reducing Inequality

Date created

• 2021-05-13

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright

License

• Creative Commons BY-NC Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

Last modified

• 2021-08-24