Innovation is a driving force at SRA, and we believe that it’s important to recognise the creativity and and development of sustainable ideas developed in our science fairs. Indeed, we are excited about the innovation emerging from our annual science fairs. In 2016, one of the science fair participants described …
SRA has now launched a digital innovators collaborative digital development programme to facilitate the use of Raspberry Pi computers to set up open education resources and promote learning in schools. We have appointed Digital Innovators from Sierra Leone (15), Nigeria (5), Guinea Bissau (8), Zimbabwe (1), and Sao Tome and …
In December 2017, SRA organised and launched a Train-the-teachers workshop in Guinea Bissau. 20 Raspberry Pi computers and computer training in various operating systems including Linux, New Out Of Box Software (NOOBS for Raspberry Pi computers), and programming in Python were offered. More information about the Train-the-teachers initiative can …
In early October 2017, the Institute of Physics at the University of Cambridge has kindly awarded us a grant to further SRA’s mandate of providing scientific resources in Africa. We look forward to collaborating with the Institute in the coming months.
