Overview by the Numbers:

Currently Serving: 350+ students

<aside> <img src="/icons/sharing_blue.svg" alt="/icons/sharing_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Summary of Team4Tech Contributions and Collaborations (2024):

• Partnership began in 2020
• 1 project with 13 pro bono consultants
• 455+ pro bono hours committed
• $95,550+ value of pro bono consulting
• $60,000 in grant support </aside>

Background:

<aside> 📌 Through accessible, high-quality, community-based education and leadership development, Orkeeswa serves students in rural Maasai communities in Tanzania, cultivating thoughtful decision-makers and creative problem-solvers prepared to achieve their own vision for impact.

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🤝 Partnership Objectives:

Orkeeswa partners with Team4Tech to improve their computer-based literacy curriculum and strategy and their robotics curriculum and strategy.

📊 Metrics:

Learner Engagement

• Number of minutes each student has access to robotics weekly
• Number of minutes each student has access to computer-based literacy programming weekly
• Percentage of students promoted to next grade level

Learner Growth

• Percentage of students who graduated secondary school (Form 6 students)
• Percentage of students passing NECTA (national exams) in Form 4 and Form 6

Teacher and Staff Effectiveness

• Percentage of teachers using technology as a teaching tool

Organizational Sustainability and Scale

• Number of professional development workshops offered to faculty for computer-based literacy

Grant Budget Analysis:

<aside> <img src="/icons/library_gray.svg" alt="/icons/library_gray.svg" width="40px" /> Orkeeswa puts their grant budget toward:

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• strengthening digital literacy strategy through teacher and staff professional development training, with purchases including e-readers for tablet optimization, books and manuals for reference, and laptops for teacher and staff use.
• building up their robotics strategy and curricula with purchases including robotics kits from Fundi Bots, sensors and electronics, prototyping tools, wireless modules, arduino kits

Skilled Volunteering Projects:

• Fall 2023: Virtual Strategic Project with Barracuda (drop down for more)

Team4Tech Impact:

⭐️ Orkeeswa's partnership with Team4Tech has allowed them to realize their goals of fully launching their Computer-Based Literacy and Robotics programming, equipped with a fully functioning lab space.

⭐️ Team4Tech skilled volunteers have supported Orkeeswa with:

• database research to better define their goals and create a workable solution within their current systems (using Google Docs/Sheets and Google Forms).