To close gaps in access to STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) education and student learning in Liberia, Hawah V. Kamara (HVK) Children’s Foundation partnered with the Global Sustainable Aid Project (GSAP) organization to develop the Lab-in-a-Box system. The Lab-in-a-Box, an offline database, allows teachers and students in remote areas with limited Internet access to access teaching and learning materials. Our team partnered with HVK to improve the user experience for teachers and students, identify a new content management platform with login and monitoring systems, add new educational content, improve the bandwidth and battery of the system, and develop training programs to instruct onsite staff in setting up and operating the system.

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Creator

• Mbusa, Daniel
• Vespi, Adam D.
• Gosselin, Anthony P.
• Le, Van

Subject

• Innovation
• Infrastructure
• Energy
• Learning
• Computing
• Sustainability
• Project-Based Learning
• Culture
• Well-Being
• Community
• Inclusion

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-031821-090207
• 5936

Palabra Clave

• user experience
• STEAM
• education
• students
• Liberia
• technology

Advisor

• Roberts, Laura
• Wang, Fangfang

Year

• 2021

Center

• Worcester Community Project Center (Massachusetts) - IQP

Sponsor

• HVK Children's Foundation

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• 4 - Quality Education
• 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
• 9 - Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
• 10 - Reducing Inequality

Date created

• 2021-03-18

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Última modificación

• 2021-05-03