By Clubes TED-Ed Argentina | Equipo
Since our June report, the 2026 school year moved from enrollment into implementation. The clearest change this period was depth rather than size.
Where the program stands
As of late October, the 2026 cohort includes 1,375 clubs in 735 schools and organizations, with 28,454 students registered by their facilitators. Those clubs sit in 163 localities across all 24 Argentine jurisdictions — the 23 provinces and the City of Buenos Aires. Last year we reached 21.
Total volume is close to last year's: the 2025 cycle closed with 1,445 clubs and 29,999 students. So this year's movement has gone into reach rather than headcount — three more jurisdictions, slightly more institutions, roughly the same number of young people. A mid-year intake added 128 clubs and 2,426 students between July and October, across 14 jurisdictions: a second window for teachers who could not commit back in March.
Neuquén: from a tour to a track
In our last report we described a four-locality training tour in Neuquén, under the agreement signed with the provincial Ministry of Education. This period, that tour became something sustained.
In September we ran a three-session track for Neuquén teachers, on September 10, 17 and 24. 135 individual teachers attended at least one session — 120 at the first, 92 at the second, 81 at the third. They came from the province's public technical and secondary schools, the EPETs and CPEMs. Roughly two out of every three teachers who showed up for the first session were still there for the third, which in a voluntary, out-of-hours series is the number we watch most closely. A regional lead now works on the ground in Neuquén year-round.
Training the second cohort
For the mid-year intake we ran four virtual sessions in August: two introductory sessions for first-time facilitators, on August 20 and 24, with 54 and 45 teachers; and two advanced sessions on August 27 for teachers who had already run a club, split by what they wanted to work on — deepening their practice (9 teachers) or expanding to more students (15).
We also held three MaTED meetups, the open space where facilitators bring problems and trade solutions: a national session on September 2 (37 teachers), a Córdoba session on September 14 (37), and another national session on October 13 (22).
In total, 512 attendances across ten sessions since July.
Partners
The Santander partnership we announced last period became concrete: 19 schools in Buenos Aires City, Greater Buenos Aires and La Plata joined through Santander scholarships, bringing 30 facilitators into the program. Work toward implementation in Río Negro continued, and our agreement with YPF moved through its reporting cycle.
What comes next
On November 12 we close the Buenos Aires City cycle with the third edition of "Protagonistas de la escuela que transforma," at the Santander Auditorium, for 200 students, teachers, principals and supervisors. Four students who came through the program will give talks, alongside three teachers from the TED-Ed Club we run for educators themselves. We will also give the Meli Furman Recognition to a teacher chosen from testimonials their own students wrote about them.
Those testimonials are the clearest evidence we have of what changes for a young person inside a club. We will bring them into the next report rather than summarize them secondhand here.
Why this matters
A club only works if a teacher keeps showing up for it after the training ends. That is why this period's most useful figures are not the totals but the return rates: two thirds of Neuquén teachers back for a third voluntary session, 128 new clubs started halfway through the school year, a province that was a signature in June and is a working network in October.
What your donation funds is not the training day. It is the months between that day and the moment a student stands up in front of their school and says something they actually mean.
A note on the figures: student counts are declared by facilitators when they register their clubs, not verified individually. Figures labeled 2026 are cumulative for the school year; July–October figures cover this reporting period only.
By Clubes TED-Ed Argentina | Equipo
By Clubes TED-Ed Argentina | Equipo
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