Agavi: Brazilian Forest Schools Digitalization

Greetings all,

Our team has continued to make progress on constructing Agavi, although a bit slower than expected.  Towards that end, the core team (myself, Alex, and Giane) met in Cluj-Napoca, Romania (the Silicon Valley of Romania) a month ago to discuss how to progress on the project faster, meet and recruit potential programmers to help with coding, and set clear objectives and timelines so that we can reach a functional prototype within the first half of 2025 so that we can begin testing with our teacher partners in late 2025.  Stay tuned for more updates in the coming year!

With gratitude,

Lev

Good day all,

We have been making good progress on the Agavi system.  Our Romanian volunteers have been hard at work this summer on building out the digital infrastructure for the system, including the login page, dashboard, experiences landing page, and author system for building new on-location teaching experiences which include a number of learning blocks, like text, multiple choice, GPS location, and others that can be mixed and matched to create activities for learners.  With a few more weeks of build time we should be able to reach alpha stage and begin testing with teachers to better understand if the system is meeting their needs and what changes we need to make to help make Agavi more user friendly and useful.

Additionally, here in Brazil we are continuing our work with our Atlantic rain forest communities and native bee education, as part of our Greenworks program.  Once Agavi is in a good state, we'll start developing teaching resources to help support this project and test out how well Agavi works in public education in the deep rain forest.  We're looking forward to these results!

With gratitude,

Lev