Educate 50,000 Ugandan kids w/offline learning app

The new Yiya AirScience course starts on 7 July! We opened registration on our new platform just 5 days ago and already have 6000 students registered for the course! We are thrilled to see such excitement and readiness to learn maths and science. Sadly, Uganda entered another lock-down and closed schools in response to high numbers of COVID infections and deaths in Uganda. With schools closed, there is a great need for Yiya AirScience right now.

In this course, students will learn about photosynthesis, and learn to design, build, and improve their design for solar cells to charge a cell phone or power a light bulb. But this first week of the course is focused on registration and encouraging students to complete a baseline survey so we can collect better data about our impact.

For the last 6 months we have been busy preparing for this next Yiya AirScience course by

• writing the curriculum for a new technology that can be built entirely with materials easy to find in remote areas,
• building a new platform to improve the user experience and our data collection,
• and incorporating lots of feedback from students, fellow experts, and partners, into refining the design of the Yiya AirScience program.

Our goals in this course are to

• refine our newly built platform as we test lots of new features that will provide for a better user experience, and move us toward curating other content from partners
• build stronger data around our impact
• support 10,000 youths to succesfully complete the course

Parents and young people in Uganda can dial *284*9# to register. To listen to the radio lessons, students in northern Uganda can tune into Radio Maria at 105.7 FM, or anyone can listen online by downloading the Radio Maria App (then choose Africa, Uganda, and then Gulu Substation).

Links:

• Yiya AirScience Pilot course documentary