Education Honduras Project #61992

Hands-on STEM program for youth in rural Honduras

by educate.

Project Report | Jun 13, 2025
"Technology with Purpose" program continues to empower rural youth with essential digital skills

By Natalia Anariba | educate. Director

Alejandra in our STEM programme

Thanks to your support, this year we have significantly expanded access to technology and STEM education for children and youth in rural Honduras!

Alejandra – From the Mountains to the Computer Lab

Alejandra, pictured in the above photo, is one of educate.'s scholarship students. She lives in the village of La Alegría, high in the mountains of Trinidad. After finishing sixth grade, she faced major challenges to continue her secondary education—like many young people in her community.

Thanks to the community library started by educate. in 2021, Alejandra was able to apply for (and win!) a scholarship to continue her education in 2024. She is now continuing as a scholarship student in 2025. She’s currently in 8th grade and is a proud participant in our STEM program, where she learns about using computers and gains confidence using technology through hands-on activities every week.

Recent Impact of the Program

The program is based at the Youth Center and takes place on a weekly basis. Recent highlights include:

26 secondary school students actively participate in the Saturday technology program every week.
Workshops have been held on digital tools, computational thinking, and online collaboration—helping our youth learn about technology beyond the basics!
We’ve trained local youth mentors to lead weekly sessions with primary school children! These sessions now take place twice a week at our Youth Center.

Technology and Leadership
Our secondary students work in teams, learn through projects, and receive ongoing mentorship in a safe, creative, and inspiring space. Our technology program is also offered to primary school children, planting the seeds of logical thinking and digital skills from an early age. This program with younger students creates valuable leadership opportunities for our older youth! In one of the photos below, you can see our young scholar Marely leading a technology workshop with children in our computer lab. We're currently developing a foundational digital literacy curriculum tailored to the rural context that can help to strengthen these programs and leadership opportunities even further.

None of this would be possible without the support of donors like you. Thanks to you, young people like Alejandra and Marely—and many more—have the chance to build a future full of opportunity.

With gratitude,
The educate. team

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Version en español:

Nuestro programa “Tecnología con Propósito” continúa empoderando a niños, niñas y jóvenes en las zonas rurales de Honduras con habilidades digitales esenciales. Gracias a su apoyo, este año hemos ampliado significativamente el acceso a la tecnología y la educación STEM!

Alejandra – De las Montañas al Laboratorio de Computación

Alejandra, quien aparece al frente en la foto arriba, es una becaria de educate. Vive en la aldea de La Alegría, en lo alto de las montañas de Trinidad. Tras finalizar el sexto grado, enfrentó grandes obstáculos para continuar sus estudios de secundaria, como muchos jóvenes en su comunidad.

Gracias a la biblioteca comunitaria iniciada por educate. en 2021, Alejandra pudo postularse (¡y ganar!) una beca para continuar su educación en 2024, y ahora sigue adelante como becaria en 2025. Actualmente cursa 8º grado y es una orgullosa participante de nuestro programa STEM, donde cada semana aprende sobre computación y gana confianza usando la tecnología de manera práctica.

El impacto reciente del programa

El programa se lleva a cabo en el Centro Juvenil semanalmente. Entre sus logros más recientes se incluyen:

26 jóvenes de secundaria participan activamente en el programa de tecnología los días sábados.
Se han impartido talleres sobre herramientas digitales, pensamiento computacional y trabajo colaborativo en línea. Así, nuestros jóvenes aprenden sobre la tecnología más allá de lo común!
Capacitamos a mentores juveniles locales para que faciliten sesiones semanales con niños y niñas de primaria. Estas sesiones se realizan dos veces por semana en nuestro Centro Juvenil.

Tecnología y Liderazgo

Las y los jóvenes participantes de secundaria trabajan en equipos, aprenden a través de proyectos y reciben mentoría constante en un espacio seguro, creativo y lleno de inspiración. El programa de tecnología también se implementa para niños y niñas de primaria, sembrando la semilla del pensamiento lógico y habilidades digitales desde una edad temprana. Este programa con niños y niñas además crea oportunidades de crecimiento en liderazgo para nuestros jóvenes de secundaria! En una de las fotos abajo, puede ver nuestra joven becaria Marely liderando un taller de tecnología con niños y niñas en nuestro laboratorio de computación. Actualmente estamos desarrollando un currículo básico de alfabetización digital adaptado al contexto rural que puede ayudar a fortalecer aún más estos programas y oportunidades de liderazgo.

Nada de esto sería posible sin el apoyo de donantes como tú. Gracias a ti, jóvenes como Alejandra y Marely – ¡y muchos más! – tienen la oportunidad de construir un futuro con más oportunidades.

Con mucha gratitud,
El equipo educate.

The program in action!

Our scholar Marely leading a workshop

Primary students playing with Microsoft Paint

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Feb 16, 2025
Kicking off our 2025 STEM programme for rural youth

By Natalia Anariba | educate. Director

Oct 19, 2024
Engaging rural youth as leaders in IT education

By Natalia Anariba | educate. Director

Level 2 technology student and youth leader Elvin

Our "Technology with Purpose" programme in Trinidad, Honduras continues to be the programme with the longest waiting list of young people wanting to participate, excited by the opportunity to engage in hands-on STEM education!

This is a technology programme for young people in our rural community of Trinidad, Santa Barbara, Honduras. We believe technology is a powerful tool for personal and community development. However there is a significant digital divide in the communities where we work, with very limited access to computers, internet, or hands-on STEM education of any kind for youth from rural communities. Not knowing how to use computers, do research, use Excel, or write a report in Word, puts limits on the possibilities of rural youth to access quality education, decent employment, and participate fully in society.

Through our programme, we enhance the capabilities of young people so that they have better opportunities to learn and engage in STEM, and so that in their futures they can pursue more competitive and meaningful careers. We have developed our programme with great dedication and enthusiasm, knowing that for young people this provides a path to a future of greater opportunities.

During this year, we are working with 24 young people in our year-long secondary school technology programme, with youth ranging from 12 to 24 years of age. They are from rural communities across three municipalities: Trinidad, Chinda, and Ilama, in the Department of Santa Barbara, Honduras. This is one of the poorest performing departments nation-wide, due to rural communities being left behind when it comes to educational opportunities. For most youth participants, coming to educate. is the first time they have had access to a computer.

Youth Leadership: passing on learnings

Our technology programme has not only allowed us to work with young people, but we have also empowered young leaders to pass on their learnings to primary school students through our Level 1 programme. This year we have three youth leaders running these sessions: our high school scholars Shelsy, Elvin and Maudiel, all young people who received educate. high school scholarships as part of our scholarship programme.

In our Level 1 technology programme, we work with boys and girls under 12 years old form rural primary schools. This program runs on Thursdays and Fridays in the afternoons from 2-4pm in the computer lab at our Youth Center. So far, 14 children have graduated from the programme this year, and another 18 are in the process.

This programme remains the only programme of its kind in the area, providing technology education at no cost to rural children and youth, empowering young leaders, and paving the way to a future of greater opportunities.

In the words of our scholarship student and technology youth leader Elvin: "Here in our country there are many young people who really want to continue their studies, but sometimes there is no support. But at educate., it is possible for young people to make their dreams come true."

Youth leader Javier teaching a level 2 class

Youth leaders Javier and Shelsy doing robotics

Youth leader Shelsy with her Level 1 graduates!

Primary school students in their computer course

Level 2 students in their computer course

Youth leaders Elvin and Maudiel running a session

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