STEM Education for 350 Youth in Vietnam

Summer time - when the kids are out of school - provides us with the best opportunities to facilitate 5-day "STEM Camps" where students have the chance to participate in multi-day projects. For a typically extracurricular based project where we engage participating children in the evenings and weekends, working around school schedules, we LOVE having the chance to interact with our students for 5 full days during the summer, allowing them opportunities to work through projects requiring more time to complete. We facilitated 3 STEM Camps this Summer 2024, engaging nearly 200 youth from orphanages and other underserved communities throughout Vietnam.

We thank you for your support that helps make these educational initiatives possible. STEM learning is so exciting for our students, and it makes a big difference in orphanages where children often feel discouraged at school, and disengaged in the learning process. Slowly, but surely, we can make a difference in helping these participants to re-engage in the learning process and take steps towards their futures beyond the orphanage.

Sincerely,

Tad

Kidspire's core competency is bringing high quality STEM Education into otherwise underserved or under-resourced communities in Vietnam - and the majority of our students are orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs). Every year, Technovation is one of our favorite projects of the year - providing groups of girls the opportunities to take a hard look at their local communities and identfy ways that they could use technology to create a solution to those challenges. This year, with your help!, Kidspire was able to bring this amazing program to 184 girls - our biggest group of participants yet.

These 184 participants, making up 58 teams, identified challenges such as clean drinking water, domestic violence, youth depression, school bullying, air pollution, and many more. Seeing these young ladies collaborate and work together to identify solutions, code their app, and create their pitch and demo vidoes, was nothing short of inspiring.

And your donations helped to make it all possible. Thank you!

Sincerely,

Tad

P.S. In the next report, we'll share some of the pitch videos. Because the project deadline was today, we need to keep those videos confidential until the global team of judges has had the opportunity to score the teams.