By Elizabeth Appleyard | Program Officer
Dear Friends,
AIL promotes modern skills, including computing, in its education curriculum wherever possible. Both male and female students want to learn computer use, internet skills and coding. They are interested and they know computing skills will be useful in the job market.
AIL supports a coding course for girls at the Professor Sakena Yacoobi High Schools. There are two high schools in Kabul and two in Herat. In April, as we reported before, the Herat school won first place for Afghanistan in the girls Technovation Challenge competition. The competition was for creating mobile phone applications. The team won with their education app teaching literacy. The all- girl team went on to compete in the semi- final round with 100 teams from around the world, but did not make it to the final six.
“My name is Monema. I am a student at the Professor Sakena Yacoobi Private High School. I am a member of the "Youth Educator" team for the world Technovation Challenge. To create our app, we needed lots of information so we selected many literacy books. We worked in a group and collected the data we needed such as pictures and sounds.
We held meetings twice a week that usually took about two hours and we worked on our tasks at home too. We shared our experience in our weekly meetings and our mentor guided us as to how to work effectively. Overall, we worked on our app day and night.
Making this application looked very difficult to us, but we did not give up! To tell the truth, in the last days when the deadline approached, we worked from 7am to 7pm without feeling weary. We made some accessory tasks to be part of the world Technovation Challenge, as well as making the app. For instance, a pitch video, a demo video, a business plan and a pitch presentation and so on. We completed all of them successfully on time with the help of our mentor. Fortunately our efforts were not wasted and we got through to the final competition as we received the top place among 18 other teams in Afghanistan. We competed at the world level with 100 teams from around the world, but did not make it into the 6 finalist level.”
Thank you for your continued support.
AIL is working towards:
SDG Goal 4 – Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.
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By Elizabeth Appleyard | Program Officer
By Elizabeth Appleyard | Program Officer
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