Collaborating organizations–Maranyundo Initiative, Maranyundo Girls School, and Tufts University–with a grant from the LEGO Foundation, provide support.
Students at 20 schools in Rwanda will soon have makerspaces in which to tinker, build, and invent. This is thanks to the efforts of three collaborating organizations: Cambridge-based non-profit the Maranyundo Initiative; the Maranyundo Girls School (MGS) in Rwanda; and Tufts University’s Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO). Dubbed “the Rwanda Makerspace Consortium pilot,” the organizations will provide the selected schools with the learning materials and teacher training on how to set up and run makerspaces that engage students in hands-on creative problem-solving through “making.” Funding is being provided by a grant from the LEGO Foundation.
Located just south of Kigali, in Nyamata, the…
