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Creatively Transforming STEM Education in Africa Beyond The Challenges
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On this episode, we speak to an amazing young woman changing STE(A)M education in Africa and beyond. She shares her inspiring story of how she started organizing volunteers to rural communities to teach technology to the children in these communities.
The organization has reached 8000+ learners across Africa, through products like Lab and Library on Wheels systems – portable solar powered computer laboratories, Ananse e-learning suite – first African story-based STE(A)M app and Train the Trainer engagements – educational support services.
The research she has done through her organization has gained international interest and support evidenced by research grants and partnerships with University College London (UCL), Royal Academy of Engineers and Jacobs Foundation.
She was the first woman recipient of the “Engineering Excellence Award”, by the Ghana Institute of Engineers, a candidate for the 2020 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation Award , a Coor fellow and a Mandela Washington fellow.
Josephine is an engineer and assistant professor, in the FKSR (University of Alberta), advancing research on linkages between access to recreational spaces and well-being, through an environmental justice lens. Her research over the years, has focused on examining how exchanges among human and non-human actors shape built and virtual recreational environments, and inform access and its associated outcomes.
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